October 2014

October 13, 2014
black nationalism
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Black Nationalism Today

October 10, 2014 - Segment 2 - We turn to a conversation about Black nationalism and its role in the political and cultural landscape today. Our guests include: Dr. Lester Spence, Center for Emerging Media Scholar-In-Residence and Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University; author and songwriter John Wesley; and Dr. Jeff Menzise, licensed school psychologist in Washington, DC, and author of Dumbin' Down: Reflections on the Mis-Education of the Negro.
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October 13, 2014
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October 10: This Day in History

October 10, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the birth of pianist and composer Thelonius Monk, the premier of George Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess, and the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew.
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October 13, 2014
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Health and Fitness: Breast Cancer Awareness

October 9, 2014 - Segment 4 - We close out the show with our monthly health and fitness segment with Chauncey Whitehead and Ernestine Shepherd! October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and Rhonda Silva, Division Administrator of the Baltimore City Cancer Program (BCCP) at the University of Maryland's Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center, joins us as we focus on breast cancer awareness and fitness.
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October 13, 2014
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Baltimore Orioles in the Playoffs

October 9, 2014 - Segment 3 - How 'bout dem O's? The Orioles are in the American League playoffs! We talk about our home team with: Milton Kent, freelance journalist and Lecturer in the Department of Multimedia Journalism in the School of Global Journalism and Communication at Morgan State University; and Jerry Bembry, veteran sports journalist and co-host of WEAA's Black Top Exchange Sports Report.
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October 13, 2014
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October 9: This Day in History

October 9, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the death of Che Guevara, the 1970 proclamation of the Khmer Republic in Cambodia, the honoring of James Herbert "Eubie" Blake in 1981 with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, from President Ronald Reagan.
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October 13, 2014
Maryland governor Debate
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Local & State Roundup: Upcoming Elections, Charm City Circulator and More

October 8, 2014 - Segment 3 - We host a roundtable discussion on local and state issues, including the upcoming elections and the Charm City Circulator with Laslo Boyd, Melody Simmons, and Charles Robinson.
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October 13, 2014
Remedios Varo
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October 8: This Day In History

October 8, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Spanish-Mexican surrealist artist Remedios Varo died, the day the first women's prison run by women opened at the Indiana Reformatory Institute, and the day Chuck Berry was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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October 8, 2014
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Sound Bites: Greener Garden Urban Farm and Oak Hill Honey

October 7, 2014 - Segment 4 - On our newest edition of Sound Bites, we take a trip to the Greener Garden Urban Farm in Baltimore, where we will hear from: Warren and LaVette Blue, farmers at Greener Garden Urban Farm; and Willie Flowers, Executive Director of the Park Heights Community Health Alliance. We close out the show with a piece on harvesting honey In the city, with: Dane Nester, beekeeper at Oak Hill Honey in Baltimore. It was produced by former Sound Bites intern Maggie Dier.
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October 8, 2014
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Theatre Baltimore: God’s Country Featuring LOVE the Poet

October 7, 2014 - Segment 3 - Join us for a sneak peek of God's Country, a performance by LOVE the Poet opening for a one week run by the Strand Theater Company. We're joined by Michelle Antoinette aka LOVE the Poet, spoken word artist and musician.
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October 8, 2014
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A Shareholder Solution to Citizens United

October 7, 2014 - Segment 2 - Marc talks with Maryland State Senator and First Amendment scholar Jamie Raskin about his op-ed in the Washington Post last week, "A shareholder solution to 'Citizens United.'" Also joining us for this conversation is John Nichols, Washington Correspondent for The Nation and co-author of Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America.
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October 8, 2014
toni
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October 7: This Day in History

October 7, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the discover of Matthew Shepard's body, a gay man who was beaten to death in Laramie, Wyoming, the birth of anarchist singer and activist Joe Hill, and Toni Morrison becoming the first African American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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October 8, 2014
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Baltimore City: Breaking Your Heart?

October 6, 2014 - Segment 3 - We listen back to an archive edition of the Marc Steiner Show from last year where we discussed the article, "Baltimore City, You're Breaking My Heart" and the many responses to it. That article recently took the title for Baltimore City Paper's "Best White Whine" of 2014.
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October 8, 2014
Ebola
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National News Roundtable: Education and Pandemics

October 6, 2014 - Segment 2 - Dr. Lawrence Brown, activist, public health consultant, and Assistant Professor of Public Health in the School of Community Health and Policy at Morgan State University, sits in for Marc as host to round up all things newsworthy, including a discussion on the changing landscape of public education and analysis of emerging pandemics
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October 8, 2014
FANNY LOU HAMER
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October 6: This Day in History

October 6, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the births of Fannie Lou Hamer and Gerry Adams, the launch of the Yom Kippur War, and the 1976 massacre of students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand.
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October 6, 2014
The Holmes Brothers
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Conversation with Wendell Holmes of The Holmes Brothers

October 3, 2014 - Segment 2 - We meet Wendell Holmes of The Holmes Brothers, a blues and gospel trio that has performed together for five decades. They recently won the NEA National Heritage Fellowship, the highest honor the United States bestows upon traditional artists.
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October 6, 2014
Woody Guthrie
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October 3: This Day In History

October 3, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the birthday of singer-songwriter Chubby Checker, the day singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie died, and the day the first Black radio station, WERD, began operating in Atlanta, GA.
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October 6, 2014
The Long Shadow
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The Long Shadow: Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood

October 2, 2014 - Segment 3 - I talk with Dr. Karl Alexander, Research Professor in the Department of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University and co-author of The Long Shadow: Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood. Alexander and his team tracked 800 children in Baltimore from first grade until their late 20s.
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October 6, 2014
Civil Rights march
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Charles E. Cobb Jr.’s ‘This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible’

October 2, 2014 - Segment 2 - Listen in as I talk with Charles E. Cobb, Jr., about his book: This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible. Cobb is a Visiting Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University. From 1962-1967 he served as a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Mississippi.
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October 6, 2014
Nat Turner rebellion
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October 2: This Day In History

October 2, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day President George Washington put the Bill of Rights forward for a vote, the day Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo ordered the execution of Haitians living within the borderlands, and the birthday of Nat Turner.
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October 2, 2014
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This Week in the City Paper and Struggle: Portraits of Civil Rights and Black Power

October 1, 2014 - Segment 5 - We close out the show with our weekly segment, City Paper This Week. In addition to Senior Editor Baynard Woods, photographer J.M. Giordano joins us to offer a preview of his exhibition, Struggle: Portraits of Civil Rights and Black Power, which opens Wednesday evening at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum.
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October 2, 2014
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Protests in Hong Kong

October 1, 2014 - Segment 3 - We examine the situation in Hong Kong, where tens of thousands of pro-democracy protestors are demanding that China allow them to let Hong Kong residents elect their own leader in 2017, the scheduled date for the city's first elections. With: Eli Friedman, Assistant Professor of International and Comparative Labor at Cornell University and the author of the recently published book Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China.
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October 2, 2014
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October 1: This Day in History

October 1, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the 1964 launch of the Free Speech Movement on the campus of University of California, Berkeley, the 1975 "Thrilla in Manila," when Muhammad Ali defeated Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines, and the birth of John Brown Russwurm, abolitionist, Pan-Africanist and newspaper editor.
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October 1, 2014
Soda Tax
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Sound Bites: Berkeley’s Soda Tax Failed / Phosphorus Management Tool / Wild and Scenic Film Festival

September 30, 2014 - Segment 3 - On the newest edition of Sound Bites, we talk about a controversial proposed tax in Berkeley, California ... on soda! We take a look at the debate in Maryland over the implementation of the Phosphorus Management Tool in Maryland, and get a sneak peak at the Wild and Scenic Film Festival.
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October 1, 2014
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Black Women In Media and On TV: Shonda Rhimes, How To Get Away With Murder, and the “Angry Black Women” Stereotype

September 30, 2014 - Segment 2 - In light of the controversial article by Allesandra Stanley in the September 18 issue of the New York Times, in which Stanley suggests that Shonda Rhimes -- producer of TV shows Scandal, Grey's Anatomy, and How to Get Away With Murder-- and her characters are "angry black women," we take a look at portrayals of black women in the media and on TV.
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