August 10, 2015
August 7, 2015 - Segment 3 - We turn to a fascinating discussion from earlier this year, a Philosophers' Roundtable on Race & Class In The United States.
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August 10, 2015
August 7, 2015 - Segment 2 - A special 2007 archive edition of The Marc Steiner Show: The Quilters of Gee's Bend, Alabama.
August 10, 2015
August 7, 2015 - Segment 1 - It's our weekly feature, Tengella's Take with Koli Tengella. Koli is President of Tengella Edutainment and was a 2010 Open Society Institute Fellow.
August 10, 2015
August 6, 2015 - Hour 2 - We listen back to a recent episode of Sound Bites, where we debated and analyzed a controversial bill making its way through Congress, called The Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act.
August 10, 2015
August 6, 2015 - Hour 1 - The blogosphere can be a very hostile environment for female bloggers, readers and commenters. Our panel of guests talked about why so many women are experiencing harassment online, and what can be done to create safe spaces on the net.
August 9, 2015
August 5, 2015 - Segment 3 - In a special archive edition, we speak with artists, musicians, and activists from different parts of the southern Appalachian region about the intersections between their art and activism.
August 9, 2015
August 5, 2015 - Segment 2 - In an archive presentation that is relevant for today, we examine why poverty has continued to grow in cities since the Civil Rights Movement.
August 9, 2015
August 5, 2015 - Segment 1 - We hear a special 2009 archive edition of The Marc Steiner Show, where we asked the question: Is Consumerism Bad For Us?
August 9, 2015
August 4, 2015 - Segment 3 - We hear a special archive edition of the show, as Marc talks with Mark Bowden, author of many books including Black Hawk Down, about his 2006 work Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam.
August 9, 2015
August 4, 2015 - Segment 2 - We hear a special archive edition of The Marc Steiner Show from 2009; an interview with Nigerian-born award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, about her collection of short stories titled That Thing Around Your Neck.
August 9, 2015
August 4, 2015 - Segment 1 - We listen back to a rebroadcast of a fascinating discussion we held last year on art, music, politics, the war on drugs, and remix culture. With Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky, musician, writer, and conceptual artist; and Paul Rucker, visual artist, composer, and musician.
August 9, 2015
August 3, 2015 - Segment 3 - We have a conversation about Baltimore icon H.L. Mencken. Author Marion Elizabeth Rodgers joins us to talk about her book Mencken: The American Iconoclast.
August 9, 2015
August 3, 2015 - Segment 2 - We feature an archive edition of the Steiner Show, Scarred Justice: The Orangeburg Massacre of 1968. Marc speaks with Judy Richardson, director of a chilling documentary by that same name, about the 1968 massacre of black students at South Carolina State University.
August 9, 2015
August 3, 2015 - Segment 1 - We examine the critique that in the U.S. we focus on Eurocentric philosophies, and feature philosophers who are working to change that reality.
August 9, 2015
July 31, 2015 - Segment 5 - We hear a special archive edition of The Marc Steiner Show, where we explore a surprising alliance, during World War II, when many Jewish professors fled from Nazi Germany and were offered positions at historically black colleges.
August 9, 2015
July 31, 2015 - Segment 4 - We have a special segment with Abu the Flutemaker, a musical craftsman who recycles found objects into musical instruments.
August 6, 2015
July 31, 2015 - Segment 3 - Baltimore-based rapper and activist Comrade joins us to talk about his life and offer a preview of his CD release party.
August 6, 2015
July 31, 2015 - Segment 2 - Listen to our weekly feature Tengella's Take with Koli Tengella. Koli is President of Tengella Edutainment and an instructor and creator of the Positive Social Change Performing Arts Program at Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts High School.
August 5, 2015
July 31, 2015 - Segment 1 - On this day in history, Muslims conquered Iberia and Whitney Young of the Urban League was born.
August 5, 2015
July 30, 2015 - Segment 4 - In our latest episode of Sound Bites, we discuss the Maryland poultry industry's criticism of former Governor Martin O'Malley's stance on biofuel and an article called "Our Failed Food Movement."
August 3, 2015
July 30, 2015 - Segment 3 - We address the question that a number of Baltimoreans have posed: Is Sheila Dixon Baltimore's Marion Barry?
August 3, 2015
July 30, 2015 - Segment 2 - We take a look at University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing's indictment for the fatal shooting of Samuel DuBose.
August 3, 2015
July 30, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the city of Baltimore was founded, the day President Lincoln issued an “eye-for-eye” order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot, and the day Charles Mingus recorded his solo Piano Album ‘Mingus Plays Piano’.
August 3, 2015
July 29, 2015 - Segment 5 - We close out the show with our regular feature, City Paper This Week with Anna Walsh, City Paper Managing Editor and Eats & Drinks Editor. This week's topic is: Barbecue!
August 3, 2015
July 29, 2015 - Segment 4 - Steiner Show regular commentator Koli Tengella joins us for a feature on Youth Opportunities (YO), a group of West Baltimore youth who join us to perform material developed in the Positive Social Change Theatre Program.
August 3, 2015
July 29, 2015 - Segment 3 - We hold a public health and society roundtable as we examine how the increase in youth HIV rates and heroin-related deaths are connected to other societal issues.
August 3, 2015
July 29, 2015 - Segment 2 - We hear a report back from the The Movement for Black Lives Convening held in Cleveland over the weekend.
August 3, 2015
July 29, 2015 - Segment 1 - On this day in history, radical union leader Mother Jones led a march of mill children to the doorstep of President Theodore Roosevelt to expose conditions that children as young as 4 or 5 experienced working in sweatshops.
July 28, 2015
July 28, 2015 - Segment 4 - We host a philosopher's roundtable on guns in our society.
July 28, 2015
July 28, 2015 - Segment 3 - Last week Baltimore City Councilman Warren Branch called for State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby to reopen the cases of three black men who died in the custody of Baltimore police.
July 28, 2015
July 28, 2015 - Segment 2 - As Baltimore City is seeking to clear the encampment of homeless persons along the Fallsway, we examine the practice of clearing encampments.
July 28, 2015
July 28, 2015 - Segment 1 - On this day in history, Johann Sebastian Bach died and the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution was ratified today.
July 28, 2015
July 27, 2015 - Segment 4 - Last week, The Annie E. Casey Foundation released a report indicating that one in seven Maryland children live in poverty, more than at the depth of the Great Recession.
July 28, 2015
July 27, 2015 - Segment 3 - In light of the CBS News/New York Times poll released last week revealing that over 60% of Americans believe that race relations in the U.S. are bad, we take on this tough topic.
July 28, 2015
July 27, 2015 - Segment 2 - We turn to the topic of Black women and the police, including Sandra Bland and the #SayHerName campaign. With: Dani McClain, Fellow at the Nation Institute.
July 28, 2015
July 27, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, Red Summer began in Chicago with whites attacking black people and their communities, the man who escaped John Brown's raid Osborne Perry Anderson was born, and the first permanent telegraph cable was finished from Ireland to Newfoundland.
July 27, 2015
July 24, 2015 - Segment 5 - We close out the show with a rebroadcast of last spring's discussion on the topic of Black Women in Academia.
July 27, 2015
July 24, 2015 - Segment 4 - We continue with more compelling works of art as we take an audio tour of the current exhibition at the American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM): The Visionary Experience: Saint Francis to Finster. Our docent is none other than AVAM Founder and Director Rebecca Hoffberger.
July 27, 2015
July 24, 2015 - Segment 3 - We talk with Baltimore-based artist Loring Cornish about his inspirational new piece "Change for the Better" which was unveiled over the weekend at Artscape.
July 27, 2015
July 24, 2015 - Segment 2 - It's our weekly feature, Tengella's Take with Koli Tengella. This week's feature deals with Donald Trump, the Presidency and being rich.
July 27, 2015
July 24, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, Ladybug Mecca of Digable Planets was born, Red Summer violence reached Washington DC, and the Scottsboro Boys were convicted of rapes they did not convict.
July 27, 2015
July 23, 2015 - Segment 3 - We begin Sound Bites this week with a debate around a controversial bill making its way through Congress right now called The Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act. Then, we talk about Yes! Magazine, "Meet the Scientist Breeding More Resilient Bees."
July 27, 2015
July 23, 2015 - Segment 2 - Our guest host is Dr. Lester Spence, Center for Emerging Media Scholar-In-Residence. In follow-up to Marc's discussion yesterday with Ta-Nehisi Coates on his new book Between the World and Me, we continue the discussion on this important and compelling book.
July 27, 2015
July 23, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie was born, the Eastern Cherokee Council held a meeting in discuss President Jackson’s proposal to turn their lands into what is now called Oklahoma, and one of the deadliest riots in US history broke out on 12th Street in Detroit.
July 27, 2015
July 22, 2015 - Segment 5 - We close out the show with our weekly look at the current issue of the City Paper with Anna Walsh, City Paper Managing Editor and Eats and Drinks Editor. This week, it is City Paper's Queer Issue.
July 27, 2015
July 22, 2015 - Segment 4 - We talk about the #BaltimoreTRANSuprising rally and march happening this Friday at 5:00pm at Charles and North. The rally and march are meant to lift up voices of transgender people in Baltimore.
July 27, 2015
July 22, 2015 - Segment 3 - Anthony McCarthy, host of The Anthony McCarthy Show on WEAA 88.9FM, sits in as guest host. We have a state politics roundtable and discuss Governor Hogan's policies.
July 27, 2015
July 22, 2015 - Segment 2 - Ta-Nehisi Coates joins us to discuss his new book, Between the World and Me. Coates is national correspondent at The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues.
July 27, 2015
July 22, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today in history, actor James Earl Jones received the National Medal of Arts, Palestinian cartoonist Naji Salim al-Ali was shot and killed in London, and the great George Clinton was born.
July 23, 2015
July 21, 2015 - Segment 4 - We turn to the topic of the psychological impact of anti-Black racism, trauma and more by talking about the Black Mental Health Alliance.