June 25, 2014
June 25 - Segment 4 - Our weekly feature, City Paper This Week, with Senior Editor Baynard Woods, discusses an ongoing legal battle over curbside solicitation.
June 25, 2014
June 25 - Segment 3 - We discuss the Presbyterian divestment from Israel with Jeffrey DeYoe.
June 25, 2014
June 25 - Segment 2 - Mosby shocks Bernstein, Frosh shocks Cardin, Hough shocks Brinkley, and more: We talk about today's primary elections results with our roundtable of guests, and speak with politicians Brian Frosh and Larry Hogan.
June 25, 2014
June 25, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about the events of this day in history, including Virginia becoming the tenth state to ratify the US Constitution, and, four score years later, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina being readmitted to the Union. It is also the day the Zip code was introduced to the United States fifty-one years ago, and the day the Supreme Court upheld the male-only draft as constitutional thirty-three years ago.
June 24, 2014
June 24, 2014 - Segment 4 - On the latest edition of Sound Bites, we learn about the school hunger gap and what Congress has to do with school lunches, learn about the Maryland legislative priorities related to food, agriculture, and the environment, and get an update on the Cove Point LNG facility.
June 24, 2014
June 24, 2014 - Segment 3 - On the day of the Maryland primary election, we are joined by Lorraine Miller, Interim President and CEO of the NAACP, to discuss the state of voting rights, one year after the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Shelby County v. Holder.
June 24, 2014
June 24, 2014 - Segment 2 - We discuss the National News with: Jordan Bloom, Opinion Editor for the Daily Caller; and Dr. Lawrence Brown, Assistant Professor of Public Health at Morgan State University.
June 24, 2014
June 24, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the Supreme Court ruled the state of George was unfairly exercising control over the Cherokees after the arrest of Reverend Samuel Worcester, the day the Supreme Court ruled that obscenity was not protected under free speech, and birthday of Agnes Nestor, president of the International Glove Workers Union and longtime leader of the Chicago Women's Trade Union League.
June 23, 2014
June 23, 2014 - Segment 4 - We reflect on on the life, work, and legacy of author Octavia Butler, who died in 2006 but would have turned 67 yesterday. With: adrienne maree brown, co-editor of the upcoming anthology Octavia's Brood, sci-fi writer, and Emergent Strategy facilitator; and Dr. DaMaris B. Hill, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky.
June 23, 2014
June 23, 2014 - Segment 3 - We turn to the ongoing controversy over the name of the Washington NFL team, in light of last week's cancellation of the team's trademark registration by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. In a 99-page decision, the Board said the team's name and logo are disparaging to Native Americans.
June 23, 2014
June 23, 2014 - Segment 2 - We have a Maryland Primary Pre-Election Roundtable! Our panel discusses key local and state candidates and elections. We are joined by: Dr. John Bullock, professor of Political Science at Towson University; Jackie Wellfonder, conservative activist and blogger at jackiewellfonder.com; and Jenna Johnson, Maryland politics reporter at the Washington Post.
June 23, 2014
June 23, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the election Gamal Abdel Nasser as president of Egypt after he led a coup against King Farouk, the births of June Carter Cash and Clarence Thomas, and the death of Betty Shabazz.