January 15, 2015
January 14, 2015 - Segment 2 - Marc is joined by Farahii Muhammad, host of Listen Up! on WEAA and student activists Meaca Downing and Avery Harmon, to discuss the March on Annapolis, which will take place on Thursday, January 15th.
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January 15, 2015
January 14, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the incendiary inaugural speech of former Alabama Governor George C. Wallace, the ousting of former Tunisian president Zine El Abdine Ben Ali, and the premieres' of two of Americas most beloved TV comedies, Sanford and Sun and The Simpsons.
January 13, 2015
January 13, 2015 - Segment 4 - We look back at the historic 2013 ruling in the Waterkeeper v. Hudson case and the continuing debate on poultry farming and pollution in our Bay.
January 13, 2015
January 13, 2015 - Segment 3 - We discuss the Baga massacre, the latest in Boko Haram's deadly campaign in northern Nigeria. Since 2009 the people of Nigeria have called for their government, military and the international community to protect the people from Boko Haram.
January 13, 2015
January 13, 2015 - Segment 2 - Marc hosts a conversation on the media coverage of recent tragic events including a new video of the killing of Tamir Rice and the bombing outside the Colorado Springs NAACP building.
January 13, 2015
January 13, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares events from this day in history including Henry Ford's patent for the soybean car and World War II veteran, Vernon Joseph Baker's receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor.
January 12, 2015
January 12, 2014 - Segment 3 - We delve into the world of Black Jewish traditions and discover what it means to be both Black and Jewish as Marc speaks with MaNishtana, Y-Love and Michael Twitty.
January 12, 2015
January 12, 2015 - Segment 2 - We host a roundtable analysis of last week's fatal shootings in Paris that has left 17 dead, including employees at French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
January 12, 2015
January 12, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day playwright and activist Lorraine Hansberry died, the day the 2010 earthquake in Haiti killed 316,000 Haitians, and the day the Supreme Court made it illegal for states to discriminate against law-school applicants because of race.
January 12, 2015
January 9, 2015 - Hour 2 - We bring an insightful and informative panel discussion that we recorded last month at the Maryland State Education Association's 2014 Education Policy Forum in Annapolis. Three dedicated and enthusiastic educators talked about what the role of teachers should be in our education system.
January 12, 2015
January 9, 2015 - Hour 1 - Prepare to be inspired as I talk with National Book Award-winning novelist and scholar Dr. Charles Johnson about his newest book Taming the Ox: Buddhist Stories and Reflections on Politics, Race, Culture, and Spiritual Practice.
January 9, 2015
January 8, 2015 - Segment 5 - We close out the show with our monthly feature on health and fitness with Chauncey Whitehead and Ernestine Shepherd! Chauncey and Ernestine will talk about New Year's resolutions, and about the second year of their monthly community walks.
January 9, 2015
January 8, 2015 - Segment 4 - For our weekly Lead Up to the Annapolis Summit, when we discuss issues facing the 2015 Maryland General Assembly. The topic is Transportation, and our guests are: Dr. John Bullock and Charles Lollar.
January 9, 2015
January 8, 2015 - Segment 3 - We turn to yesterday's tragic shooting at the Paris offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which left 12 people dead. With: Kevin "KAL" Kallaugher, editorial cartoonist for The Economist magazine of London and The Baltimore Sun.
January 9, 2015
January 8, 2015 - Segment 2 - Have you been to the movies lately? Join in our discussion on race and representation in film and advertising. We will take a look at recent movies including Exodus, Top Five and Annie, at Target ads, and at the rumors of Idris Elba as the next James Bond.
January 9, 2015
January 8, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the German Coast Rebellion outside of New Orleans, the day African-American men were given the right to vote in Washington DC, and the day the first issue of The Woman's Journal and Suffrage News was published.
January 8, 2015
January 7, 2015 - Segment 5 - We honor the lives of the victims of homicide who were killed in Baltimore during 2014 by reading their names.
January 8, 2015
January 7, 2015 - Segment 4 - We take our weekly look at what's in the City Paper with Senior Editor Baynard Woods. This week, we look at the 2015 New Years Resolutions issue, which features, among others, Marc Steiner.
January 7, 2015
January 7, 2015 - Segment 3 - We discuss the case of Kelli Murray, a 911 operator who has been harassed because of Facebook posts about police brutality, and discuss Black Brunch protests against police violence.
January 7, 2015
January 7, 2015 - Segment 2 - Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz joins us for a conversation about his vision for Baltimore County in 2015.
January 7, 2015
January 7, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the birth of Zora Neale Hurston, and the day Marian Anderson became the first African American to perform at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York in 1955.
January 6, 2015
January 6, 2015 - Segment 3 - On our newest episode of Sound Bites, our series on our food and our world, we reflect upon the top food stories of 2014 with our panel of guests, and we discuss food-related issues on Congress' radar this year.
January 6, 2015
January 6, 2015 - Segment 2 - We have a conversation on violence in Baltimore, and how to really create a different reality in 2015. With: Dr. Phil Leaf, Kimberly Armstrong, Angela Johnese, and David Miller.
January 6, 2015
January 6, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day President Franklin Delano Roosevelt talked about his Four Freedoms, the day the New England Anti-Slavery Society was organized, and the day former KKK leader Edgar Ray Killen was arrested for the murders of three civil rights workers who were killed during Freedom Summer in Mississippi.
January 6, 2015
January 5, 2015 - Segment 4 - We will host our first Philosophers' Roundtable of 2015 with Dr. Lester Spence, Dr. Desiree Melton, and Dr. Joe Pettit. We discuss the political, cultural and social transformations that 2015 might bring, and the type of world those changes would create.
January 6, 2015
January 5, 2015 - Segment 3 - In our Lead Up to the Annapolis Summit, our panel of guests will discuss budget and tax issues facing the 2015 Maryland General Assembly. We will talk with two members of the State Budget and Taxation Committee: Senator Roger Manno and Senator George Edwards.
January 5, 2015
January 5, 2015 - Segment 2 - We have a special treat today. We’re going to hear Downtown Stories, radio pieces produced by UMBC students taking a course called “Place and Public History in Baltimore” led by UMBC’s Dr. Nicole King and Dr. Kate Drabinski. The question students sought to answer was: What should the public remember about Baltimore history and why?
January 5, 2015
January 5, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including National Bird Day, the day Henry Ford announced an eight-hour workday and a "living wage," and Founders Day for Kappa Alpha Psi, the world's second oldest and largest African American fraternity.
January 5, 2015
January 2, 2015 - Segment 3 - Michael Pollan is the author of best-selling books like The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food. He is to food what Al Gore is to climate change. He joined Marc for a conversation about food, farm policy, the environment, politics, and more.
January 5, 2015
January 2, 2015 - Segment 2 - Marc talks with historian Thomas Sugrue, whose latest book is an examination of the struggle for equal rights in the North. So much of the history of the movement has focused on the work in the South and on the work of Southern groups like the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. But in America’s northern cities, all was not equal and calm.
January 5, 2015
January 2, 2015 - Segment 1 - We talk with author Carla Kaplan, Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature at Northeastern University, about her book Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance, which focuses on a small group of white women who crossed the color line and played controversial yet significant roles in the Harlem Renaissance.
January 3, 2015
January 1, 2015 - Segment 3 - In a special archive edition of the Marc Steiner Show, we listen back to a discussion on the spiritual side of The Simpsons, and talk to starring voice actor on The Simpsons Harry Shearer.
January 3, 2015
January 1, 2015 - Segment 2 - In a special segment of our Just Words series, Marc speaks with community activists about the tremendous gulf that exists between their perception of the world and how they are seen by outsiders.
January 3, 2015
January 1, 2015 - Segment 1 - In a special archive edition of the Marc Steiner Show, we listen back to an interview with David Simon, the author of The Corner, and the creator of The Wire and Treme.
January 3, 2015
December 31, 2014 - Segment 3 - Baltimore City Paper Senior Editor Baynard Woods joins us to discuss this week's issue of the City Paper, which looks at the year in photos.
January 3, 2015
December 31, 2014 - Segment 2 - Keith Covington, former owner of the New Haven Lounge, brings us into 2015 with great conversation and some of the best traditional and contemporary jazz music, from Johnny Hartman to Wynton Marsalis.
January 3, 2015
December 31, 2014 - Segment 1 - We look back at the biggest news stories of 2014 with Lenny McAllister, Sarah van Gelder, and Bob Somerby.
January 2, 2015
December 30, 2014 - Segment 2 - In an archive edition of Sound Bites, we discuss antibiotic use among healthy animals, the fining of Maryland poultry farms over pollution, and we visit Hidden Harvest Farm in Baltimore.
January 2, 2015
December 30, 2014 - Segment 1 - We listen back to our annual visit from Helicon, the Celtic-inspired folk group.
January 2, 2015
December 29, 2014 - Segment 2 - We continue our holiday music series with Tom Hall, Music Director of the Baltimore Choral Arts Society, who shares some great seasonal choral music.
January 2, 2015
December 29, 2014 - Segment 1 - We’re joined by the Director of Morgan State University’s Choir, Eric Conway to hear music of the holiday season.
January 2, 2015
December 26, 2014 - Segment 2 - Florida, host of WEAA’s Strictly Hip Hop, visits our studio for a departure from traditional holiday music, when we hear hip hop related to the season.
January 2, 2015
December 26, 2014 - Segment 1 - We’ll hear crooners, jazz standards, and even a little Cee Lo Green when Milton Dugger, musician and president of Gumption Records, shares some of his favorite holiday music with us.
January 2, 2015
December 24, 2014 - Segment 3 - Baltimore City Paper Senior Editor Baynard Woods joins us to look at this week's issue of the City Paper. It's the annual People Who Died issue, which focuses on some of the members of our communities who passed away over the past year.
January 2, 2015
December 24, 2014 - Segment 2 - In this holiday Marc Steiner Show special, we’re joined by conductor Edward Polochick, who shares some of his favorite holiday music.
January 2, 2015
December 24, 2014 - Segment 2 - In the latest installment of the World of the Play series, we look at the rise and fall of the thriller in theatre and film.
January 2, 2015
December 23, 2014 - Segment 4 - In our latest episode in our series about our food and our world, Sound Bites, we hear about Gather Baltimore's kickstarter campaign, and take a look at the effect of plastics on our ecosystem.
January 2, 2015
December 23, 2014 - Segment 3 - In the wake of last week's shooting deaths of two police officers in New York City, we discuss the growing tensions and divides between police and communities across the country.
January 2, 2015
December 23, 2014 - Segment 2 - Center Stage Artistic Kwame Kewi-Armah joins us in-studio to talk about the upcoming production of playwright Kemp Powers historic dramatization, One Night in Miami.
January 2, 2015
December 23, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day including, President Warren G. Harding's "Christmas Amnesty" which granted clemency for 23 political prisoners, and the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank.