December 22, 2014
December 22, 2014 - Segment 4 - We host an "exit" interview with long-time activist Duane "Shorty" Davis, who is leaving our city and moving to California where he will take a Fellowship for several months.
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December 22, 2014
December 22, 2014 - Segment 3 - It's time for another installment of our Lead-Up to the Annapolis Summit series! We look at issues concerning the Environment that will be addressed in the General Assembly.
December 22, 2014
December 22, 2014 - Segment 2 - Last week President Obama surprised the nation by lifting the 54-year embargo on Cuba. We speak about U.S.-Cuba relations: past, present, and future.
December 22, 2014
December 22, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the birth of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and the conviction of French Army Officer Alfred Dreyfus in a court martial that triggered worldwide charges of anti-Semitism.
December 19, 2014
December 18, 2014 - Segment 3 - Stay tuned for a very magical musical treat: our annual visit by Helicon! The Celtic-inspired group will hold their 29th Annual Winter Solstice Reunion Concerts at Goucher College's Kraushaar Auditorium on Saturday, December 20, 3:30 and 7:30 p.m.
December 19, 2014
December 18, 2014 - Segment 2 - December 21 is National Homeless Persons' Memorial Day, when we remember our brothers and sisters who died homeless in the past year. This year, as we do every year, The Marc Steiner Show will hold a discussion and read the name of every person who died homeless in Baltimore in the past 12 months.
December 19, 2014
December 18, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the birthday of actor and activist Ossie Davis, the day environmental activist Julia "Butterfly" Hill came down from the ancient Redwood tree she staged a two-year protest in, and the start of the Arab Spring Uprisings.
December 18, 2014
December 17, 2014 - Segment 4 - We look at this week's issue of the Baltimore City Paper with City Paper Senior Editor Baynard Woods. This week's issue is their Top Ten issue. We discuss their top ten lists and Baynard's article on the shifting relationship between Baltimore protestors and police.
December 18, 2014
December 17, 2014 - Segment 3 - We look at Apache Sacred Land in the Tonto National Forest in Arizona being ceded to copper mining interests.
December 18, 2014
December 17, 2014 - Segment 2 - We host a special discussion on lessons from Ferguson and practical advice for parents on how to talk with their children about race and societal change.
December 18, 2014
December 17, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including when Simón Bolívar declared the independence of Gran Colombia in Angostura (now Ciudad Bolívar in Venezuela), the election of Jean-Bertrand Aristide as president of Haiti, and Mohamed Bouazizi setting himself on fire. This act became the catalyst for the Tunisian revolution and the wider Arab Spring.
December 18, 2014
December 16, 2014 - Segment 3 - For the latest edition of our series on our food and our world, Sound Bites. We begin the hour with a look at an op-ed piece by NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, "Abusing Chickens We Eat." Then, listen in to a special archive as we talk with chef and food justice activist Bryant Terry about his book Afro-Vegan.
December 18, 2014
December 16, 2014 - Segment 2 - On our national roundtable, our panel of guests discusses topics of national importance including the CIA torture memo and the Federal Budget Bill, with Lenny McAllister, Will Marshall and Kevin Zeese.
December 18, 2014
December 16, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the beginning of the Battle of the Bulge, the birthday of African American historian William Cooper Nell, and NAACP co-founder Fanny Garrison Villard.
December 17, 2014
December 15, 2014 - Segment 3 - Listen in to a special archive edition of The Marc Steiner Show. Internationally known astrophysicist at the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute Mario Livio talks with me about his book Is God A Mathematician? Topics include Mathematics, the fabric of reality, God, and how it all may be working together.
December 17, 2014
December 15, 2014 - Segment 2 - We discuss an important community event that's taking place Tuesday, hosted by the Baltimore Community & Business Alliance: a Town Hall Meeting on City Funding, School Funding, Body Cameras and Police Accountability, and other issues.
December 17, 2014
December 15, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history including the murder of Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux leader Sitting Bull, the day we lost civil rights leader Septima Poinsette Clark, and the American Psychiatric Association voting unanimously to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders.
December 17, 2014
December 12, 2014 - Segment 4 - Listen in to another special archive edition of the Show, as I talk with the fascinating and inspirational author and scientist Dr. Temple Grandin. Grandin talks about her 2013 book The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum.
December 17, 2014
December 12, 2014 - Segment 3 - We listen back to our interview with esteemed historian Dr. Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, who talks about his 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery.
December 17, 2014
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December 12, 2014 - Segment 2 - In our Lead Up to the Annapolis Summit, we take a look at pretrial issues that will be on the docket during the 2015 Maryland General Assembly, which opens on January 14 with Professor Doug Colbert and Public Defender Paul DeWolfe.
December 14, 2014
December 12, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day we lost composer Henry Thacker Burleigh, the day Benjamin Banneker completed the first clock made entirely in America, and the birthday of poet Lola Ridge.
December 14, 2014
December 11, 2014 - Segment 4 - We speak with author and activist Frida Berrigan, daughter of Phil Berrigan and Elizabeth McAlister, about her book It Runs in the Family: On Being Raised by Radicals and Growing into Rebellious Motherhood.
December 14, 2014
December 11, 2014 - Segment 3 - We listen back to a special 2010 archive edition of the Steiner Show, part of our Urbanite Stories series. Marc speaks to Correctional Officer Maurice Smith of the Metropolitan Transition Center in Baltimore about a prison garden program he ran where inmates grew food and flowers, creating a serene and welcoming corner in an otherwise stark environment.
December 14, 2014
December 11, 2014 - Segment 2 - We examine the Senate Intelligence Committee's five-year investigative report, released this week, which details allegations of harsh torture tactics in the CIA.
December 14, 2014
December 11, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the arrest of Bernard Madoff, the birth of Grace Paley, and the death of Sam Cooke.
December 14, 2014
December 10, 2014 - Segment 4 - We close out the show with our weekly segment City Paper This Week, with Senior Editor Baynard Woods, including a feature on democracy and Baltimore-area Ferguson Protests.
December 14, 2014
December 10, 2014 - Segment 3 - In our newest "If I were Mayor of Baltimore" segments, we talk to local student leaders from MICA, University of Baltimore School of Law, and Morgan State University involved in local Ferguson protests and more, who share their visions for our city.
December 12, 2014
December 10, 2014 - Segment 2 - Listen to analysis and discussion on how the history of housing apartheid created the basis for deep-seated racism and police brutality. Our guests will examine the current social and political landscapes of Ferguson, Staten Island, and Baltimore, and reflect upon how events in our history created a foundation for where we are today.
December 12, 2014
December 10, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Selma Lagerlof became the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, the day Nelson Mandela signed the South African Constitution into law, and the day comedian Richard Pryor passed away.
December 10, 2014
December 9, 2014 - Segment 4 - In a brand new episode of Sound Bites, we discuss the lack of diversity in the leadership of environmental organizations and discuss a recent report on top legal concerns for Maryland's agricultural community.
December 10, 2014
December 9, 2014 - Segment 3 - Marc Steiner Show producer Mark Gunnery shares an appreciation and review of the latest John Coltrane release, Offering: Live at Temple University. The recording documents one of Coltrane's final concerts on November 11, 1966, and offers a glimpse of where he was heading musically in the final months of his life.
December 9, 2014
December 9, 2014 - Segment 2 - Fifty years ago today, John Coltrane recorded his classic album A Love Supreme. We discuss the lasting impact of that album.
December 9, 2014
December 9, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the establishment of the YMCA, the founding of the John Birch Society, and the birth of Redd Foxx.
December 9, 2014
December 8, 2014 - Segment 3 - We turn to the issue of women's rights, especially in light of the case currently being heard before the U.S. Supreme Court, Peggy Young v. United Parcel Service (UPS). In 2006 Peggy Young, then a worker for UPS, became pregnant and asked for a reassignment that would not require heavy lifting. The company refused and put her on unpaid leave.
December 9, 2014
December 8, 2014 - Segment 2 - We host a panel discussion on race and racism in the U.S., specifically looking at police violence and the legal system's failure to respond to civilian killings in Ferguson, New York and Cleveland.
December 9, 2014
December 8, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the birth of Flip Wilson, the launch of the 1962 New York City newspaper strike, and the murder of John Lennon.
December 8, 2014
December 8, 2014 - Segment 4 - On today's international roundtable, we discuss topics from Africa to the Middle East: Boko Haram, ISIS and beyond. Our panel of guests includes: Dr. Faheem Younus, Dr. Max Hilaire, and Sam Faddis.
December 8, 2014
December 5, 2014 - Segment 3 - Hear a preview of Black Legislative Agenda Day: From the Baltimore Grassroots, taking place Saturday at Pleasant Hope Baptist Church, with Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle's Dayvon Love and Delegate Jill P. Carter.
December 8, 2014
December 5, 2014 - Segment 2 - In our Lead Up to the Annapolis Summit segment, in conjunction with The Daily Record, about the business climate in Maryland with Loyola's Dr. Hung-bin Ding, Towson's Dr. Daraius Irani, and the Maryland Chamber of Commerce's Mathew Palmer.
December 8, 2014
December 5, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Christopher Columbus became the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola, the day Mary McLeod Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women, and the day Phillis Wheatley, the first African American woman to have her work published, died.
December 5, 2014
December 4, 2014 - Segment 4 - We have our monthly feature on health and fitness, focusing on breast cancer and HIV awareness.
December 5, 2014
December 4, 2014 - Segment 3 - Israeli journalist and filmmaker Lia Tarachansky joins us to talk about her documentary On the Side of the Road, which is showing in Baltimore on Friday at Johns Hopkins University and Sunday at Space 2640.
December 5, 2014
December 4, 2014 - Segment 2 - We take a look at the decision handed down this afternoon by the grand jury in New York, not to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the chokehold death last July of Eric Garner, an unarmed 43-year old man who was suspected of illegally selling single cigarettes.
December 4, 2014
December 4, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the American Anti-Slavery Society was founded, the day the U.S. Senate approved U.S. participation in the United Nations, and the day Cesar Chavez was jailed for 20 days for refusing to end the United Farm Workers' grape boycott.
December 4, 2014
December 3, 2014 - Segment 5 - We talk to City Paper senior editor Baynard Woods about what's in this week's issue of the City Paper, including the annual Advent Calendar and an article where Jewish kids review mall Santas.
December 4, 2014
December 3, 2014 - Segment 4 - We do an extended version of our regular feature, City Paper This Week, to include "Baltimore's New Deal," which was featured in the paper last week, with City Paper's Ed Ericson, Jr., Towson University's Dr. John Bullock, and UMBC's Dr. Dennis Coates.
December 4, 2014
December 3, 2014 - Segment 3 - We host a National News Roundup. Our panel will discuss Attorney General Eric Holder's announcement of a plan to target racial profiling; Bill Cosby's resignation from the Temple University Board; and the contingent of St. Louis-area police union members who are providing security to former officer Darren Wilson.
December 4, 2014
December 3, 2014 - Segment 2 - Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake joins us in-studio for a conversation on issues involving Baltimore, including: protests around the events in Ferguson; vetoes of police body camera and plastic bag legislation; and housing.
December 4, 2014
December 3, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Andrew Jackson became President of the United States, the day Fredrick Douglass published the first edition of the North Star, and the day Bob Marley was shot twice near his home in Jamaica in an assassination attempt.
December 2, 2014
December 2, 2014 - Segment 3 - In the latest installment of Sound Bites, our series about our food and our world, we host a Maryland Environmental and Agricultural Policy Roundtable on fracking and phosphorous management.