June 2015

June 12, 2015
Marilyn Mosby
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Local News Roundup: Baltimore City Council Responds To School Layoffs & Marilyn Mosby Email Asked For Strict Drug Enforcement In Freddie Gray’s Neighborhood

June 11, 2015 - Segment 2 - On our Local News Roundup, we discuss how the Baltimore City Council is responding to school layoffs and the news that State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby sent an email in the weeks before Freddie Gray's death, asking police to target the area of North Avenue and Mount Street for drug trafficking.
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June 12, 2015
Isaac Oliver
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Intimacy Idiot: A Conversation With Author, Actor & Playwright Isaac Oliver

June 10, 2015 - Segment 4 - We offer a sneak preview of an event to be held Wednesday evening at Baltimore's Creative Alliance, An Evening with Isaac Oliver. Oliver is author of the book Intimacy Idiot.
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June 12, 2015
Chauncey Whitehead and Ms Ernestine
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Health & Wellness with Chauncey Whitehead: Summer Fun & Fitness

June 10, 2015 - Segment 3 - It's our monthly Health and Fitness segment with fitness activist and trainer Chauncey Whitehead. Chauncey will be joined by Dr. Shana Ntiri, Medical Director for the Baltimore City Cancer Program (BCCP).
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June 12, 2015
Kalief Browder
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Roundtable on Prisons, Policing, and Community Responses

June 10, 2015 - Segment 2 - We host a roundtable discussion on recent headlines involving violence, prison, policing, and community solutions, including: the suicide last Saturday of Kalief Browder; the freeing of Angola 3 member Albert Woodfox after 43 years in solitary confinement; violence in Baltimore; and initiatives in Sandtown.
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June 11, 2015
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Wrestling with The Wire

June 9, 2015 - Segment 2 - Last week Baltimore's City Paper featured stories on The Wire, David Simon's acclaimed TV series about Baltimore. Join our panel of guests as we use those features as a jumping off point to talk about the series and its representation of our city.
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June 11, 2015
mckinney2
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Cultural News Roundup: Black Girls Matter | Caitlyn Jenner & Representations Of Trans Women | Police Response To McKinney, Texas Pool Party & More

June 8, 2015 - Segment 3 - We host a Cultural Roundtable to discuss the Black Girls Matter movement, Caitlyn Jenner and representations of trans women in the media, and the death of Mya Hall, the transgender woman killed outside of the NSA on March 30th and more.
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June 11, 2015
Hisham Aidi
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From The Archives: Rebel Music — Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture

June 5, 2015 - Segment 4 - In a special archive edition of The Marc Steiner Show, you will hear my interview with Dr. Hisham Aidi about his book Rebel Music: Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture.
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June 11, 2015
Dr. Freeman Hrabowski
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Dr. Freeman Hrabowski’s Holding Fast To Dreams: Empowering Youth from the Civil Rights Crusade to STEM Achievement

June 5, 2015 - Segment 3 - Listen to my interview with Dr. Freeman Hrabowski, President of University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), about his important book Holding Fast To Dreams: Empowering Youth from the Civil Rights Crusade to STEM Achievement.
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June 11, 2015
Compton Mayor Doris Davis
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June 5: This Day In History

June 5, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, the Supreme Court of the United States issued three important decisions that undermined the legal foundations of segregation, Mexican general Pancho Villa was born, and Compton Mayor Doris Davis became the first African American woman to be mayor of a major city.
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June 11, 2015
Martin O'Malley, environment
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Sound Bites: Former Governor & Presidential Hopeful Martin O’Malley’s Environmental Record | Gunpowder Riverkeeper Halts 21-Mile Natural Gas Pipeline | Are Animals Sentient Beings?

June 4, 2015 - Segment 3 - On Sound Bites, our series about our food and our world, we begin the hour with a look at current Presidential hopeful Martin O'Malley's record on the Environment, hear how a Gunpowder riverkeeper halted a 21-mile natural gas pipeline from being constructed, and discuss whether animals are sentient beings.
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June 11, 2015
North Avenue, Baltimore schools
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Baltimore City Schools: What Will Be The Impact Of Budget Cuts & Restructuring At North Avenue?

June 4, 2015 - Segment 2 - Join our guest host Dr. Kimberly Moffitt as she moderates a panel discussion about budget cuts and restructuring at North Avenue. Last week it was announced that 159 staff positions were eliminated at Baltimore City Public Schools and layoff notices were sent out.
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June 11, 2015
Jacques Roumain
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June 4: This Day In History

June 4, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, academic and activist Angela Davis was acquitted of all charges against her, Haitian writer and political activist Jacques Roumain was born, and the United States refused to allow the MS St. Louis to land in Florida.
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June 9, 2015
FBI Spy Planes
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National News Roundup: FBI’s Surveillance Air Force & Congress Stops NSA Phone Record Collection

June 3, 2015 - Segment 3 - The world found out yesterday that The FBI is operating a small air force across the country with low-flying planes using video surveillance technology, under the guise of fictitious companies.
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June 9, 2015
Operation Ceasefire
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Why Is Operation Ceasefire Struggling In Baltimore?

June 3, 2015 - Segment 2 - We continue our daily feature on programs in Baltimore and beyond that offer solutions to the turmoil our city is undergoing. We look at the Operation Ceasefire campaign in Baltimore, its successes and failures and where it is going from here.
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June 9, 2015
Safe Streets
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Spotlight On Safe Streets: Baltimore Community Problem Effectively Addressing Violence

June 2, 2015 - Segment 4 - We spotlight Safe Streets, a successful Baltimore program set up by the national non-profit Cure Violence, to stave off violence in at-risk neighborhoods by employing former convicts to walk through and monitor activity on the street and intervene when violence threatens.
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June 9, 2015
World Cup
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Kavitha Davidson On FIFA, The World Cup, The Olympics & Their Politics

June 2, 2015 - Segment 3 - Kavitha Davidson, Bloomberg View Sports Columnist joins us for a commentary on the controversy over FIFA, the world soccer governing body, and the Olympics.
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June 9, 2015
O'Malley Presidential announcement
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Considering Former Baltimore Mayor & Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley’s Bid For President

June 2, 2015 - Segment 2 - Our panel of guests considers last Saturday's announcement by former Baltimore mayor and Maryland governor, Martin O'Malley, that he will run for the Democratic nomination for President in 2016.
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June 9, 2015
Harriet Tubman
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June 2: This Day In History

June 2, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, Harriet Tubman led 150 Union soldiers under the command of Col. James Montgomery in the Combahee River Raid, The Snyder Act gave Native Americans the right to vote in 1924, and Cornell West was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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June 8, 2015
police
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Baltimore Experiencing Highest Murder Rate In 40 Years: Crime and Policing in Baltimore

June 1, 2015 - Segment 3 - We take an intensive look at issues of crime and policing in Baltimore. In May, Baltimore experienced the highest murder rate in a single month in 40 years.
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June 8, 2015
cory
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An Update from Delegate Cory McCray: What’s Next For Ex-Felons’ Voting Rights

June 1, 2015 - Segment 2 - We catch up with Maryland State Delegate Cory McCray and talk about his experience as a freshman delegate as well as Governor Hogan's recent veto of a bill McCray co-sponsored that would have given former felons the right to vote.
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June 4, 2015
hylton
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Wil Hylton’s Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II

May 29, 2015 - Segment 5 - We close out the show with Wil Hylton, journalist and contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, whose new book is Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II.
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June 4, 2015
artpart
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From The Archives: Art-Part’heid — Bridging the Gap of Disparities in the Baltimore Art Scene

May 29, 2015 - Segment 4 - We bring you a special archive edition of The Marc Steiner Show as we listen back to Art-Part'heid: Bridging the Gap of Disparities in the Baltimore Art Scene, a panel discussion and community dialogue on race, power, privilege, exclusion and shared wealth.
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June 4, 2015
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May 29: This Day in History

May 29, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including Sojourner Truth delivering her "Ain't I a Woman?" speech and a Quebec court upholding the "right" of Canadians to hold Native people as slaves.
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June 2, 2015
Pollinator health task force
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Sound Bites: President Obama’s Pollinator Health Task Force, Does It Go Too Far? | How Our Local Beekeepers Are Faring

May 28, 2015 - Segment 3 - On the newest edition of Sound Bites, our series on our food and our world, we return to the important topic of bees. First we look into the history and work of President Obama's White House Pollinator Health Task Force and hear how our local beekeepers are faring in our region.
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June 2, 2015
Black history and policing
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Dr. Lester Spence: Black History, Policing & The Black Left

May 28, 2015 - Segment 2 - Our guest host Dr. Lester Spence, Center for Emerging Media Scholar-In-Residence, discusses Black history and policing, with Daryl Scott, Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Howard University and outgoing President of the Association for the Study of African American Life.
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June 1, 2015
jamal
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Rev. Jamal Bryant on the Protest Against the Youth Jail

May 27, 2015 - Segment 6 - Rev. Jamal Bryant, Senior Pastor of Empowerment Temple AME, joins us to talk about the protest he organized against the construction of the new youth jail in Baltimore.
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June 1, 2015
lds
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Engage Me Or Enrage Me: Re-engaging Males in Learning and Life

May 27, 2015 - Segment 3 - Dr. Lamarr Darnell Shields joins us to discuss an event he is organizing at the Family League of Baltimore called Engage Me Or Enrage Me: Re-engaging Males in Learning and Life. Dr. Shields is Executive/Change Agent at the Cambio Group.
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June 1, 2015
la13
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May 27: This Day in History

May 27, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the birth of Lisa "Left Eye" Lopez of TLC and the day when, in 1968, Mexican American students who were part of the Chicano movement shut down schools in East LA demanding the release of the LA 13.
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