Community Events

Archives of the show until 2018. For recent archives, go to: The Marc Steiner Show at the Real News Network

October 25, 2013

Healthcare Is A Human Right

October 25, 2013 - Segment 5 - We close out the week talking about the march this weekend sponsored by Healthcare is a Human Right, and the precedent set in Vermont, which has a statewide single-payer health system.
October 10, 2013

Fusion Partnerships: 15 Years of Community Organizing & Collaborative Action in Baltimore

October 10, 2013 - Segment 4 - We feature Fusion Partnerships, Inc., a local organization whose mission is to work through collaborative action to be a catalyst for justice and peace.
October 4, 2013

Baltimore Book Festival: Panel Discussion with Gar Alperovitz – What Then Must We Do?

October 4, 2013 - Segment 2 - Last weekend, I moderated a conversation between political economist Dr. Gar Alperovitz; Dr. Lester Spence and Dr. John Duda at the the Baltimore Book Festival's Radical Bookfair Pavilion about Alperovitz's book What Then Must We Do?
October 4, 2013

Adrian Legg: Eclectic Guitarist

October 3, 2013 - Segment 4 - We close out the show with a conversation with English guitar player Adrian Legg, who will play a concert this Saturday at Common Ground on the Hill. He is renowned on both sides of the Atlantic for his signature blend of music styles and mastery of both acoustic and electric guitar technique.
September 20, 2013

John Nichols & Robert McChesney – Dollarocracy: How The Money & Media Election Complex Is Destroying America

September 20, 2013 - Hours 1 & 2 - We broadcast of an evocative discussion that Marc moderated Tuesday night at the 2640 Space in Baltimore, on the commercialization of U.S. elections. The discussion was centered on the book Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America.
August 29, 2013

Families Of Baltimore Men Killed By Police Create Community Park

August 29, 2013 - Segment 3 - We hear from families who have had family members killed by the police in Baltimore and who are working to create a CommUnity park in the vacant lot where one of the men was killed.
August 28, 2013

This Week In The City Paper

August 28, 2013 - Segment 2 - This week, we begin a weekly look at the Baltimore City Paper. We're joined by the City Paper's Senior Editor Baynard Woods for an update on what's in this week's issue. Please visit the Citypaper.com for more information.
August 22, 2013

The March: A Civil Rights Opera

August 22, 2013 - Segment 5 - We close out the show with librettist Alan Marshall, who talks about The March: A Civil Rights Opera, a new opera that explores the personal and political circumstances surrounding the 1963 March on Washington. The March will be performed on August 25th at Baltimore' s Enon Baptist Church.
August 22, 2013

Black Paper From The Institute Of The Black World

August 22, 2013 - Segment 4 Longtime journalist and activist Don Rojas joins us to talk about the Institute of the Black World's "Black Paper" reflecting upon the state of Black America 50 years after the March on Washington.
August 14, 2013

Mobtown Moon

August 14, 2013 - Segment 2 - Lea Gilmore - songstress, activist, and Center for Emerging Media Cultural Editor - joins us to co-host a conversation with Sandy Asirvatham and ellen cherry, co-creators of Mobtown Moon, a project that involves 40 Baltimore-based musicians re-imagining the classic Pink Floyd album Dark Side of the Moon.
July 26, 2013

A 5K Run Through Park Heights

July 25, 2013, Segment 2 - Fitness trainer and community activist Chauncey Whitehead and Willie Flowers, Executive Director of the PHCHA, share information about an upcoming Park Heights Community Health Alliance event -- a 5k run/walk through Park Heights this Saturday July 27th.
July 10, 2013

Common Ground On The Hill And Green Valley Samaritan Project

July 10, 2013 - Segment 2 - We take a look at the Common Ground on the Hill Festival, which is happening this weekend at the Carroll County Farm Museum in Westminster, Maryland. In addition, we talk with participants of the Green Valley Samaritan project, a group of volunteers in Arizona who go out into the desert to provide water for and assist migrants trying to cross the border from Mexico to the U.S.
July 8, 2013

Opening the Gates: Celebrate the Gwynn Oak Amusement Park 50 Years Later

July 4, 2013 - Segment 4 - A roundtable of guests discuss the 50th anniversary of the integration of Gwynn Oak Amusement Park, leading up to an event this Sunday, July 7, "Opening the Gates: Celebrate the Gwynn Oak Amusement Park 50 Years Later."
June 27, 2013

Theatre Baltimore: Baltimore Performance Kitchen’s Romeo & Juliet

June 27, 2013 - Segment 2 - Actors Aldo Pantoja and LOVE the poet stop by to talk about the Baltimore Performance Kitchen's Romeo & Juliet, which features a diverse and dynamic cast that challenges our understanding of race and gender in this well-known story.
June 14, 2013

1963: The Music and The Movement

June 14, 2013 - Segment 2 - Hear from Robert Shahid, co-host of WEAA's Baltimore Blend, who will tell us about the event that WEAA will host next Wednesday, June 19, in partnership with the Creative Alliance: "1963: The Music and The Movement."
June 6, 2013

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s “Carmina Burana”

June 6, 2013 - Segment 3 - We close out the show with a look ahead at this weekend's performances of the masterpiece "Carmina Burana" by the Morgan State University's Choir and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Eric Conway, Director of the Morgan State University Choir, will join us to talk about what promises to be an amazing event, along with two students: Leah Hawkins and Colin Lett.
June 4, 2013

Panther Baby: A Life of Rebellion & Reinvention

June 5, 2013 - Hour 1 - We bring you an interview from this spring's CityLit Festival with Jamal Joseph, activist, urban guerrilla, FBI's most wanted fugitive, poet, and filmmaker, who discusses his memoir, Panther Baby: A Life of Rebellion & Reinvention.
May 30, 2013

Learning, Listening, Leading: BUILD’s 35 Years Of Organizing In Baltimore City

May 30, 2013 - Segment 4 - We close out the show with Ojeda Hall, Lead Organizer for BUILD (Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development), and Terra Hiltner, BUILD Historian, who join us to talk about an exhibit, "Learning, Listening, Leading: BUILD's 35 Years of Organizing in Baltimore City."
May 16, 2013

Coming To Baltimore: American Alliance Of Museums’ Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo

May 16, 2013 - Segment 3 - We talk about a big event coming to Baltimore: the American Alliance of Museums' Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo, which brings a world audience to our city and many special events to our city's museums.
May 15, 2013

Marian House: 30 Women 30 Stories

May 15, 2013 - Segment 3 - We speak about 30 Women, 30 Stories: Journeys of Recovery and Transformation, a new book and exhibit about the courageous women of Marian House, a Baltimore institution that has offered rehabilitative services and housing to homeless women and their children for the past 30 years.
April 4, 2013

Funny, Fierce, And Fabulous: The Cabaret

April 4, 2013 - Segment 1 - We talk to Meshelle, "The Indie-Mom of Comedy" and Founder of Goaldiggers The Sankofa Project, about an event coming up this weekend at 7pm on Sunday, April 7th at the Creative Alliance in Baltimore.
April 2, 2013

“We Are The Dream” Campaign Highlights The Work Of Young People

April 2, 2013 - Segment 2 - We learn about the "We Are The Dream" Campaign, which seeks to highlight the positive things being done by young people in our community on the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with coordinator Hassan Giordano.
March 27, 2013

Rites of Passage And Our Youth

March 26, 2013 - Segment 2 - We turn our focus to the National Rites of Passage Institute (NROPI) Youth Conference, which is coming this summer (July 19-21) to the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture, and discuss how rites of passage can have a positive impact on reducing violence and incarceration, and increasing academic performance among children and youth.
February 19, 2013

Remembering Malcolm X and Manning Marable

February 19, 2013 - Hours 1 & 2 - On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City. To remember his legacy, we bring you a panel discussion we recorded at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in May 2011 about Manning Marable, the scholar who died just days before his groundbreaking - but controversial - biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, was published. Marable's work sought to redefine Malcolm's legacy.