September 8, 2016 - Segment 3 - Listen in to a fascinating discussion on the language of Sperm Whales and a visit to the urban garden at Frederick Douglass High School in Baltimore.
September 8, 2016 - Segment 2 - We discuss the Port Covington hearings, in light of an upcoming protest scheduled for Thursday (September 8) at 4:00 PM.
September 7, 2016 - Segment 1 - Denzel Mitchell hosts a discussion of The Get Down, a Netflix original series set in the 1970s that focuses on hip hop in the Bronx.
September 6, 2016 - Segment 3 - A special repeat broadcast of our show earlier this year on the War on Drugs with Dan Baum, writer of "Legalize It All" and Neill Franklin form BPD and Maryland state officer.
September 6, 2016 - Segment 1 - We begin the show with a National News Roundup, with topics to include: Trump, Clinton and Black Voters and Immigration Policy.
September 5, 2016 - Segment 1 - For Labor Day, we listen back to repeat broadcasts of two discussions on the remake of the classic television mini-series "Roots."
September 2, 2016 - Segment 4 - We explore how the ever-present videos of Black people being killed affects our collective and individual psyches. With: Sheila Gaskins,performance artist, poet, stand up comic, and Director of Theater Action Group; and Kalima Young, instructor at Towson University and University of Maryland College Park.
September 2, 2016 - Segment 3 - I talk with Shane Bauer about his recent piece for Mother Jones, "My four months as a private prison guard." Bauer is a senior reporter at Mother Jonesand recipient of numerous awards, including the Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism, and co-author of A Sliver of Light, a memoir of his two years as a prisoner in Iran.
September 2, 2016 - Segment 2 - I host an interview with historian and author Dr. Nancy Isenberg about her new book White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America. Dr. Isenberg is the T. Harry Williams Professor of History at Louisiana State University.
September 2, 2016 - Segment 1 - We host our regular weekly feature Tengella's Take with Center for Emerging Media Satirical Commentator Koli Tengella. Tengella is President of Tengella Edutainment, an instructor and creator of the Positive Social Change Performing Arts Program at Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts High School, and he was a 2010 Open Society Institute Fellow.
September 1, 2016 - Segment 2 - In our latest episode of Sound Bites, we discuss the State of Maryland's ettlement with NRG Energy; urban foraging; and pollution of Maryland waterways.
September 1, 2016 - Segment 1 - We have a National News Roundtable, with topics including: Trump and African Americans; Obama commuting some federal inmates' sentences; and the Chicago Police Department moving to fire five officers over the Laquan McDonald shooting.
August 31, 2016 - Segment 5 - We take a look at the DOJ report on Baltimore policing, specifically how the report addresses police interactions with persons with disabilities. With: Virginia Knowlton Marcus, Executive Director of Disability Rights Maryland.
August 31, 2016 - Segment 1 - We begin the show with a remembrance and celebration of the life of recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder, who died last week.
August 30, 2016 - Segment 2 - We turn to sports and politics, reflecting upon the actions of San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who has refused to stand for the playing of the national anthem during games in protest of wrongdoings against African Americans in the United States.
August 30, 2016 - Segment 1 - Nnamdi Scott of the Ujima People's Progress Party stops by to talk about his campaign for Baltimore's 7th City Council District.