July 10, 2015
July 7, 2015 -Segment 1 - On this day in history, poet and writer Margaret Walker was born and Toussaint L’Ouverture presented the new constitution declaring Haitian independence.
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July 9, 2015
July 6, 2015 - Segment 1 - On this day in history, the Great Railway Strike of 1877 was started in Baltimore and the first AK-47 came off an assembly line in 1947.
July 9, 2015
July 3, 2015 - Segment 1 - On this day in history,Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi was overthrown by a military coup d’etat after four days of protest calling for his resignation and Mississippi John Hurt was born.
July 7, 2015
July 2, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, Medgar Evers was born in Mississippi, Independence Day is celebrated in Bahia, Brazil, and free black man Denmark Vessey was executed in Charleston.
July 5, 2015
July 1, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, the composer, playwright and stage producer Robert Allen Cole was born, slavery ended in the Suriname and Netherland Antilles, and one million railroad workers began a month-long strike.
July 1, 2015
June 30, 2015 - Segment 1 - On this day in history, Lena Horne was born and President Harry S. Truman signed legislation declaring February 1st National Freedom Day in honor of the signing of the 13th Amendment.
June 29, 2015
June 29, 2015 - Segment 1 - On this day in history Kwame Touré was born and Malcolm X formed the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
June 26, 2015
June 26, 2015 - Segment 4 - We feature another program that's doing good work in Baltimore, the Sister Neighborhood Arts Program (SNAP). With: Brian Francoise, Brion Gill aka Lady Brion, and Sheila Gaskins.
June 26, 2015
June 26, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, jazz musicians Clifford Brown and Richie Powell passed away, W.E.B. DuBois resigned from the NAACP, and the day the Supreme Court found gender-based sodomy laws to be unconstitutional.
June 26, 2015
June 25, 2015 - Segment 3 - Joe Tropea, Digital Projects Coordinator for the Maryland Historical Society (MDHS), joins Dr. Lester Spence to discuss MDHS's new project to collect footage and images of the Baltimore Uprising.
June 26, 2015
June 25, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, Michael Jackson passed away, Sierra Leone Founding Father Thomas Peters' birthday, and Marvin Gaye went Number 1 on the US singles chart with 'Got To Give It Up'.
June 26, 2015
June 24, 2015 - Segment 3 - In the wake of the news Monday that the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals decided to continue the stay and block the release of Albert Woodfox, a member of the Angola 3 who has been in solitary confinement for over four decades, we interview Robert King, the only surviving member of the Angola 3 who is out of prison.
June 26, 2015
June 24, 2015 - Segment 2 - As the Confederate flag is still flying on the South Carolina Capitol grounds, we have a discussion about the symbolism and meaning of flying that flag, as well as monuments to the Confederacy in Baltimore and beyond.
June 26, 2015
June 24, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, the saxophone was patented, the Reverend Samuel Worcester was arrested and convicted of living with the Cherokees, and the Buffalo Soldiers broke the back of the Spanish Army driving them from their entrenched positions at Las Guasimas, Cuba.
June 25, 2015
June 22, 2015 - Segment 1 - On this day in history, Octavia Butler was born and Joe Lewis knocked out Max Schelling.
June 22, 2015
June 19, 2015 - Segment 5 - We close the show with a conversation with internationally renowned interpreter of Franz Fanon's works, Lewis R. Gordon about his latest book What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction To His Life And Thought.
June 22, 2015
June 19, 2015 - Segment 4 - Listen to one of our new regular features in partnership with Yes! Magazine, based on their Make It Right issue. We talk to two of their contributing writers who tell an interesting story: His ancestors were slave traders and hers were slaves. The two went on a roadtrip together, and this is what they learned.
June 22, 2015
June 19, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, we celebrate Juneteenth and "Lift Every Voice and Sing," President John F. Kennedy introduced the Civil Rights Act of 1963, and 50,000 people converged on Washington DC to support the Poor People’s Campaign.
June 22, 2015
June 18, 2015 - Segment 1 - On this day in history, the US declared war on Great Britain in 1812, the birth of Paul McCartney, and the federal government declared an eight hour day for federal workers.
June 17, 2015
June 17, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, rapper Kendrick Lamar was born, Native people in the United States seemed to be winning the war against the American invasion, and the Tuskegee merchant and bus boycott began in Alabama.
June 16, 2015
June 16, 2015 - Segment 1 - On this day in history, Marie LeVeaux was born in New Orleans and George Stinney became the youngest person ever executed in the United States at the age of 14.
June 15, 2015
June 15, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, a mob of 10,000 people in Duluth, Minnesota lynched three Black circus workers, Natalie Leota Henderson Hinderas was born, and economist William Arthur Lewis passed away.
June 12, 2015
June 12, 2015 - Segment 1 - On this day in history, Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison for sabotage against the apartheid government of South Africa and Anne Frank received her first diary as a 13th birthday gift.
June 12, 2015
June 11, 2015 - Segment 1 - On this day in history, the IWW launched a strike in New Orleans against United Fruit and the Buddhist monk Thick Quang Duc set himself on fire to protest the dictatorial regime of South Vietnam.
June 12, 2015
June 10, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, it's Abolition Day in French Guiana, Howlin Wolf was born in White Station, Mississippi, and a 75-day filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended.
June 11, 2015
June 9, 2015 - Segment 1 - On this day in history, the Tiananmen Square student protests began in China and writer Charles Dickens passed away.
June 11, 2015
June 8, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, Muhammad died in Medina, the Supreme Court declared restaurants in Washington D.C. could not deny service to black patrons, and Apache leader Cochise was laid to rest.
June 11, 2015
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.
June 11, 2015
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.
June 9, 2015
June 3, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, Memphis Minnie was born in the Algiers community in New Orleans, African American woman composer Florence Price passed away, and the Zoot Suit Riots began in Los Angeles.
June 9, 2015
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.
June 9, 2015
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.
June 8, 2015
June 1, 2015 - Segment 1 - We look back at some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the burning of Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma on this day in 1921.
June 4, 2015
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.
June 4, 2015
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.
June 2, 2015
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.
June 2, 2015
May 28, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, poet Maya Angelou passed away, Betty Shabazz was born, the Palestinian Liberation Organization was founded, and Parren Mitchell was elected.
June 1, 2015
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.
May 29, 2015
May 26, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, the Supreme Court handed down its Dred Scott decision, White House seamstress Elizabeth Keckley passed away, and vaudeville singer and dancer Mamie Robinson Smith was born.
May 28, 2015
May 25, 2015 - Segment 2 - Take a journey through Vietnam with a group of eight people who went there to produce the radio documentary series Shared Weight.
May 28, 2015
May 25, 2015 - Segment 1 - We listen to another episode of our documentary series about the Vietnam War, Shared Weight. We hear Artists Born of War, where artists and writers from all sides of the Vietnam War reveal how that conflict influenced – and maybe even birthed – their work.
May 27, 2015
May 22, 2015 - Segment 4 - You hear from some of Baltimore's talented new young journalistic voices, students at UMBC, who worked with Marc on a project called Baltimore Traces: Communities in Transition, which brought students into Baltimore City to study neighborhoods, where they conducted interviews with local residents and workers.
May 27, 2015
May 22, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, Langston Hughes passed away, the Caribbean island of Martinique abolished slavery, and Katherine Mary Dunham, the "Queen Mother of Black Dance," passed away.
May 26, 2015
May 21, 2015 - Segment 2 - D Watkins joins us to talk about Claude McKay, Harlem Renaissance poet and writer who died on May 22, 1938.
May 26, 2015
May 21, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the birth of the Notorious B.I.G and the abolition of slavery in Martinique.
May 22, 2015
May 20, 2015 - Segment 1 - On this day in history, we remember the signing of the Homestead Act and the announcement of "Josephine Baker Day" by the NAACP.
May 21, 2015
May 19, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh celebrate birthdays, Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail was published, and thinker, philosopher and activist C.L.R. James passed away.
May 20, 2015
May 18, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, "The First Lady of the Struggle" Mary McLeod Bethune passed away, the infamous Plessy v. Ferguson decisions were handed down by the Supreme Court, and the Bath School Massacre took place in Michigan.
May 19, 2015
May 15, 2015 - Segment 1 - We look back at some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the killing of a protestor in Berkeley.
May 18, 2015
May 14, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, the British colony of Jamestown was established, Israel was declared an independent state, and and the Jackson State University massacre, when two African American students, Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green, were gunned down by Mississippi State Police during an anti-war protest.