June 24, 2010
Author Lucia St. Clair Robson joins us to discuss her new book Last Train From Cuernavaca, a novel set during the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920. Her other books include Ride the Wind, Shadow Patriots, and Ghost Warrior.
June 23, 2010
Actor, producer, and activist Danny Glover sat down with Marc today to talk about why he came to the U.S. Social Forum in Detroit, how he sees his work as a producer as part of a struggle for social justice, and why he's traveling to Baltimore tomorrow to fight for the rights of health care workers.
June 23, 2010
We're in Detroit covering the awe-inspiring gathering of 15,000 progressive activists, organizers, and scholars that is the 2010 U.S. Social Forum. To give you a taste of the gathering, we start off today's show with highlights from yesterday's opening march.
June 23, 2010
First, Alana Vase, Conservation Program Coordinator for the Maryland Sierra Club, and Steven Rivelis, CEO of Campaign Consultation, join us to discuss Hands Across the Sand, a movement to oppose offshore drilling while championing clean and renewable energy sources. Click here for more info about their coordinated actions a
June 22, 2010
Michael Pertschuk is the author of the new book The DeMarco Factor: Transforming Public Will Into Political Power. A veteran advocate himself, Pertschuk explores the campaigns and strategies of Maryland lobbyist Vinnie DeMarco. DeMarco has made a name for himself over the past two decades fighting for g
June 22, 2010
June 22, 2010
Baltimore's own SONiA returns to The Marc Steiner Show to play some new songs and talk about her music. She just released a new album, with her band disappear fear, called Blood, Bones & Baltimore.
June 22, 2010
Eddie Pope played as a defender for 11 years on the United States national soccer team. He played on the US team in the last World Cup, in 2006, then retired from professional soccer later that year.
June 21, 2010
In our second hour today, we explore a surprising alliance. During World War II, many Jewish professors fled from Nazi Germany and were offered positions at historically black colleges. We discuss the intertwined history of African Americans and Jews with the curators of Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow: Jew
June 21, 2010
June 17, 2010
In this week's edition of Your Money Matters, Robin McKinney, Director of the Maryland CASH Campaign, discusses teaching financial literacy in public schools.
Then, Stephen Martino, Director of the Maryland State Lottery, joins us to rebut allegations that the state spent too much money purchasing slot machines for a new casino.
June 17, 2010
With Father's Day coming up on Sunday, we devote an hour of the show to parenting.
June 17, 2010
Witold Rybczynski is an architect, writer, professor, and urban thinker. He joins us to discuss his vision for the future of America's cities.
June 16, 2010
Best-selling sports author and commentator John Feinstein joined Marc today. His newest book is Moment of Glory: The Year Underdogs Ruled Golf, which traces four players who unexpectedly became major champions in 2003.
June 16, 2010
June 16, 2010
June 15, 2010
How can we improve the quality of education in Baltimore City Public Schools? A newly released report offers several controversial suggestions for improving teacher performance, including giving principals more power to hire and fire teachers, having teachers work longer hours for better pay, evaluating teachers more regularly, and linking pay to performance.
June 15, 2010
With the end of the school year approaching, Marc is joined in studio by Dr. Andrés Alonso, CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools. Join us for a discussion of the state of the school system, plans for next year, and more.
June 14, 2010
June 14, 2010
June 14, 2010
Actress Pam Grier, an icon of 1970's cinema, joins us in the studio this hour. Grier is best known for her roles in films like Coffy and Jackie Brown, although she has continued to act in films and television, including a starring role in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown in 1997 and currently playing roles in The L Word and Smallville.
June 10, 2010
In another segment of our Your Money Matters series, Frank Cielsa joins us to talk about working with a financial institution.
June 10, 2010
Reverend Heber Brown, Pastor of Pleasant Hope Baptist Church in Baltimore, recently returned from a trip to Palestine and Israel with an inter-faith group.
June 10, 2010
Maryland's Board of Public Works just approved nearly $50 million to buy slot machines for a soon-to-open casino in Cecil County.
June 10, 2010
Martha Cooper joins us to discuss her photography and her new project in Baltimore. Best known for documenting the birth of hip hop culture in New York City in the 1970's and early 80's, Martha is now back in Baltimore part-time, documenting street life in her new neighborhood here, Sowebo.
June 9, 2010
June 9, 2010
The financial reform bill that is currently passing through Congress intends to establish measures to monitor and respond to financial risks and to deal with failing financial institutions.
June 9, 2010
We take a look at the results of different elections that took place throughout the United States yesterday. We're joined by Anthony McCarthy, host of the Anthony McCarthy Show on WEAA, and Aaron Swartz, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, which supported Bill Halter in his lo
June 8, 2010
June 8, 2010
June 8, 2010
Witold Rybczynski is an architect, writer, professor, and urban thinker. He joins us to discuss his vision for the future of America's cities.
June 7, 2010
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. We discuss the legacy of the book, and why it's still one of the leading American novels about racial injustice with:
June 7, 2010
We've been covering the city budget crisis in depth, and today we turn once again to the financial shortfalls facing our city. Now, with city police and firefighter unions suing the city over their underfunded pensions, our panel discusses what we can do to avoid cuts to necessary services while facing the reality of declining revenues.
June 7, 2010
Co-hosts Marc and Anthony McCarthy start off the show with Representative Elijah Cummings from Maryland's 7th District. Representative Cummings recently returned from a trip to the Gulf Coast to investigate the damage from the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.
June 3, 2010
Music legend Hazel Dickens turned 75 this week. She joins us to speak about her life and music. Hazel will be performing at the Creative Alliance in Baltimore on Friday, June 4th. Click here for more info on the concert.
June 3, 2010
Reverend Adam Hamilton is the author of When Christians Get It Wrong and Founding Pastor at United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas. He joins us to discuss some of the controversial ideas that Christianity is grappling with today.
June 3, 2010
We start off with this week's installment of Your Monday Matters, in which we discuss starting your own business.
June 2, 2010
June 2, 2010
June 2, 2010
June 1, 2010
June 1, 2010
May 28, 2010
May 28, 2010
In honor of memorial day, we're broadcasting episodes from our documentary Shared Weight, which looks at the legacy of the Vietnam war.
Woody Curry joins us this hour. He is a veteran from the inner city Baltimore, and he tells how he survived the despair of war and transformed himself.
May 27, 2010
Oil continues to flood into the gulf, as President Obama held a press conference to defend the US government's handling of the oil spill today. We speak with Jackie Savitz, Senior Campaign Director for the pollution campaigns at Oceana, for an update on the disaster and its implications for the future of US energy policy.
May 27, 2010
We start off today with Your Money Matters. Frank Cielsa discusses the ins and outs of starting a small business.
May 25, 2010
The Other Wes Moore is the tale of two boys with the same name growing up at the same time in Baltimore. One is serving a life sentence for murder. The other took a dramatically different path, and he speaks with us today about what he found when he explored these two similar yet divergent lives.
May 25, 2010
May 25, 2010
May 25, 2010