June 16, 2010
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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
May 24, 2010
Both Governor Martin O'Malley and former Governor Robert Ehrlich made campaign promises to reform Maryland's flawed juvenile justice system. We check in to see whether those promises were met, and where the state's system is today. Our guests are:
May 24, 2010
May 24, 2010
It's Monday, so Anthony McCarthy is co-hosting with Marc in the studio.
May 20, 2010
Have you ever heard of the Maryland Fish Pepper? In another Urbanite Radio Story, we look at the history of this local hot pepper. It faded out of popularity and was almost lost, but a few people are working to bring the Fish Pepper back to Maryland.
May 20, 2010
First, another installment of Your Money Matters. Adrian Johnson discusses building a long-term approach to saving money.
May 19, 2010
Malcolm X would have turned eighty-five today. Forty-five years have passed since he was killed. What is his legacy today? Writer and political analyst Dedrick Muhammad joins Marc to co-host this hour.
May 19, 2010
We start off the discussion with a look at the Enterprise Women's Network, an organization that connects students in Baltimore with mentors.
Joining us were:
Kelly Cartales, Vice President and Baltimore Impact Market Leader for Enterprise Community Partners
May 19, 2010
Today is the 85th birthday of Malcolm X. We sat down with his daughter, Ilyasah Shabazz, to discuss her memories of her father and what she thinks his legacy means today.
May 18, 2010
Continuing a practice that has existed for years, yesterday Baltimore officials auctioned liens on 12,689 homes and properties whose owners had outstanding local taxes and municipal bills, according to a report by the Huffington Post Investigative Fund.
May 18, 2010
Just over four month's ago, Haiti was devastated by a tremendous earthquake. This hour, we discuss the ongoing relief efforts with two people who recently returned from visits there.
May 17, 2010
This weekend the New York Times published an article wondering if
we encourage too many people to pursue a traditional college eduction.
Should we put more energy into vocational training and other "practical"
May 17, 2010
First, a Your Health Today segment. We talk to Christine L. Byerly, a nurse in the University of Maryland Medical Center's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) talks about caring for babies born up to three months prematurely.
May 13, 2010
First, another segment in our Your Money Matters series. We continue our conversation with Aziza Gary from MECU about payday loans.
May 13, 2010
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