November 10, 2009
We discuss health care reform this hour. The bill to reform health care barely passed through the House last weekend, and now must go through the Senate. Our guests are:
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November 10, 2009
Our panel and callers from throughout Baltimore and the state of Maryland join us this hour to discuss Mayor Dixon's trial. The jury was selected today and the trial will continue on Thursday. Our guests this hour are:
Charles Robinson - Correspondent for Maryland Public Television
November 9, 2009
November 9, 2009
November 5, 2009
High numbers of children from all races and backgrounds grow up without their fathers taking an active role in their lives. The absence of fathers is felt particularly hard in the black community, where it's estimated that close to 70% of children are born out of wedlock. How do we rebuild a world of wholeness in the face of this grim reality?
Today's panel included:
November 5, 2009
For our first hour, Marc meets up with substance abuse counselor and Vietnam Veteran Woody Curry for our monthly conversation about addiction and recovery. Woody joins us to discuss PTSD and the many residual issues facing veterans, including homelessness and drug and alcohol abuse.
November 4, 2009
November 4, 2009
For the first hour of today's show, Marc spoke with guests and welcomed audience reactions to the local and state elections which took place around the country yesterday. The guest panel included:
November 3, 2009
November 3, 2009
November 2, 2009
Here's the podcast of the full interview with Joe Jones, founder of the Center for Urban Families, featured in the November issue of Urbanite Magazine. Click below to listen to the podcast, and
November 2, 2009
The deal to sell a significant share of BGE to a French interest is a done deal. What will this mean to Baltimore BGE clients? Can nuclear energy be in our foreseeable future? Marc and Anthony talk with Jay Hancock, Baltimore Sun financial columnist and Johanna Neumann, legislative advocate for Maryland Public Interest Research Group (PIRG).
November 2, 2009
Senator Ben Cardin updates Marc and Anthony on health care reform, Afghanistan and more. Later in the hour, Dr. Margaret Flowers contributes her view to the health care reform discussion.
October 29, 2009
October 29, 2009
In our first hour, we discuss the role of race in education and how we assist youth in building healthy identities and relationships when they are at their most vulnerable. How can we get children the tools they need for positive outcomes in such a deeply divided system?
October 29, 2009
October 28, 2009
Marc, Lamar Tyler, and comic Meshelle continue their discussion on Black marriage.
October 28, 2009
October 27, 2009
We continue our conversation about bias on the Fox News network for the first half of this hour, playing more clips and examining what highly politicized media is doing to America's news industry.
October 27, 2009
We open the hour with an update from Kimberly Schultz, Director of Communications for the Office of the Public Defender, on the Public Defender Hearing.
October 26, 2009
Will limited service crisis pregnancy centers need to disclose that they do not offer or refer for abortion or comprehensive birth control? A hearing scheduled for Tuesday, October 27 in Baltimore will discuss the possibility. Nancy Paltell, Associate Director of
October 26, 2009
Nancy Forster, former Public Defender, joins Marc and Anthony to discuss the impact of the Public Defender's Office. Ms.
October 26, 2009
Kathryn Joyce, author of Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement, talks with us about her article Shotgun Adoption in Nation magazine. As Baltimore City Council considers a bill that would mandate
October 22, 2009
On today's show, Marc sits down with Ray Cook, Founder and executive director of On Our Shoulders, an organization that offers counseling, education, and skills training to young people in Baltimore. We're also joined by Timothy Wilson, who is a youth mentor, Brendan Lee, who is a behavior specialist at
October 22, 2009
October 21, 2009
On the secound hour of today's show, Marc talks with Pastor of the Church of the Brethren in Westminster Larry Brumfield, Director of the Maryland Black Family Alliance Elbridge James, and Assistant Director for Cultural and Religious Diversity at UMBC Lisa Gray about the onward fight for gay rights and their role as straight members of the community in assisting their
October 21, 2009
Marc talks with Jeffrey Perry about the life and times of Hubert Harrison, a writer, educator and political activist who influenced Marcus Garvey and A.
October 20, 2009
On the first half of today's show, Marc talks with Thomas Gouttierre, who is the Director of the Center for Afghanistan Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Gouttierre also lived and worked in Afghanistan for nearly 10 years, from 1964-1974. Gouttierre and Marc talk about the war in Afghanistan.
October 20, 2009
October 19, 2009
Political organizer and strategist Robert Creamer joins us to discuss the economy and politics. He writes for the Huffington Post and is author of the book Listen to Your Mother: Stand Up Straight, How Progressives Can Win. He's also the h
October 19, 2009
Anthony McCarthy co-hosts with Marc today, and Cornel West joins us to discuss his new memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud.
October 15, 2009
On the secound hour of today's show Marc talks with legendary jazz singer, composer, pianist, and band leader Ethel Ennis and her husband Earl Arnett. Marc and Ethel talk about her career and her rare upcoming performance at the Creative Alliance.
October 15, 2009
Marc looks at the issue of the declining population of cities like Baltimore and Flint, Michigan. Joining Marc are Paul Graziano, Baltimore Housing Commissioner; Beth Strommen, Manager of Baltimore's Office of Sustainabiltiy and Dan Kildee, County Treasurer of Flint, Michigan.
October 14, 2009
On the secound hour of todays show Marc sits down with Coleman Barks and talks about Rumi.
October 14, 2009
On the first hour of today's show Marc and his guests talk about the ICC, a new highway being constructed in Maryland.
October 13, 2009
October 13, 2009
Marc and Anthony Mccarthy, Host of the Anthony Mccarthy show on WEAA every friday from 5-7pm, have a conversation about the Healthcare Bill & on Barack Obama winning the Noble Peace Prize.
On today's show, Marc talks with:
October 12, 2009
October 12, 2009
October 12, 2009
For the second hour of today's show, Marc speaks with guests about current state of Native American living and the rights of American Indians. Today's panel included:
October 12, 2009
For the first hour of today's show, Marc spoke with actor, author and activisit Russell Means. Russell Means is regarded as one of the most influential Native American activisits and political leaders of the later part of the 20th century, leading the way into the 21st century.
October 7, 2009
October 7, 2009
October 6, 2009
Marc and Anthony start out the hour with a half hour conversation with Congressman John Sarbanes about the public option, where it is and where it's going in the ongoing healthcare debate.
October 6, 2009
For our first hour, Marc, Anthony McCarthy and our panel discuss the issue of false arrest and police harassment in Baltimore City. Are people being targeted because of how they look? How does the relationship between our police and our citizens need to evolve from here?
Today's panel included:
October 6, 2009
October 5, 2009
Assistant Professor of American Studies (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Kimberly Moffitt and Roger Burrows, Professor of Sociology at the University of York (London, England) join Marc and Anthony to discuss the
October 5, 2009
October 2, 2009
October 1, 2009
Greg Cantori, President of the Board of Directors of One Less Car, and Marc talk about the challenges and dangers of biking through the streets of B-More.