November 14, 2014
November 11, 2014 - Segment 2 - We again ask the question, "What would you do if you were Mayor of Baltimore?" Joining us to offer their own answers are three members of the new class of Open Society Institute-Baltimore Fellows.
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November 14, 2014
November 11, 2014 - Segment 1 - Tuesday is Veterans Day, and we honor all the men and women who have served or are currently serving in our country's Armed Forces, and more.
November 14, 2014
November 10, 2014 - Segment 3 - We host a roundtable on the local and state election results with Nicolee Ambrose, Laslo Boyd, Catalina Byrd, and Rev. Dr. Heber Brown.
November 14, 2014
November 10, 2014 - Segment 2 We host a roundtable on the national election results, with Imara Jones, Brian Griffiths, and John Nichols.
November 14, 2014
November 10, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including Kristallnacht, when anti-Jewish pogroms took place across Germany, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the passing of UN Resolution 3379, which equated Zionism and racism.
November 10, 2014
November 7, 2014 - Segment 5 - I talk with Taylor Branch, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian whose trilogy America in the King Years chronicles the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement.
November 10, 2014
November 7, 2014 - Segment 4 - I talk 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.
November 10, 2014
November 7, 2014 - Segment 3 - We talk with two journalists, one Palestinian and one Israeli: Noam Sheizaf and Samer Badawi.
November 10, 2014
November 7, 2014 - Segment 2 - We talk with individuals from the Freedom Theatre in the Jenin Refugee Camp in the Occupied West Bank. The goal of the theatre is to empower the community and to explore the potential of arts as an important catalyst for social change.
November 10, 2014
November 7, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the day Douglas Wilder becomes the first African American to be elected as governor of a U.S. state, and the day in 1990 when the National Football League responded to the state of Arizona’s refusal to observe a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday by rescinding their plan to hold the 1993 Super Bowl in Phoenix.
November 10, 2014
November 6, 2014 - Segment 4 - We hear our monthly feature on health and fitness, with fitness activist and trainer Chauncey Whitehead, professional trainer and body builder Ernestine Shepherd, and registered dietician Angela Ginn-Meadow. This month, we discuss diabetes.
November 10, 2014
November 6, 2014 - Segment 3 - We host another Philosophers' Roundtable and ask the question: Do Things Happen for a Reason?
November 10, 2014
November 6, 2014 - Segment 2 - We talk with Palestinian journalist, foreign policy analyst and author Rula Jebreal about her recent op-ed piece in the New York Times, "Minority Life in Israel."
November 10, 2014
November 6, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the election of Jefferson Davis to the presidency of the Confederacy, Art Modell's 1995 announcement that he planned to move the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore,and the birth of author Michael Cunningham.
November 10, 2014
November 5, 2014 - Segment 4 - We close out the show with our weekly feature, City Paper This Week, with Senior Editor Baynard Woods.
November 10, 2014
November 5, 2014 - Segment 3 - We turn to local and state elections, with Dr. John Bullock, Delegate Jolene Ivey, Dr. Richard Vatz, and the Rev. Dr. Todd Yeary.
November 10, 2014
November 5, 2014 - Segment 2 - Did you vote today? Listen in to our National Election Roundtable, with Dr. John Bullock, Jordan Bloom, Bob Somerby, Zoe Carpenter, and the Rev. Dr. Todd Yeary.
November 10, 2014
November 5, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day American slave leader Nat Turner was tried, convicted and sentenced to death, the day Susan B. Anthony first voted, and the day civil rights activist Channing Heggie Tobias died.
November 10, 2014
November 4, 2014 – Segment 4 – In the newest edition of Sound Bites, we hear a commentary on the dangers of methane being released from the earth, we learn about a recent report on how supposedly “bee-friendly” plants actually contain neonicotinoid pesticides, and look at Baltimore’s Park Heights Farmers Market.
November 10, 2014
November 4, 2014 - Segment 3 - Jamaican-born singer and musician Alex Marley sits down to talk about his music when he was in Baltimore this summer.
November 10, 2014
November 4, 2014 - Segment 2 - The Nation's Editor and Publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel joins me to talk about the nearly four-hour interview that she conducted with Edward Snowden last month in Moscow.
November 10, 2014
November 4, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the NSA was established in the United States, the birthday of American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, and the day The Western Confederacy of American Indians won a major victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash.
November 4, 2014
November 3, 2014 - Segment 4 - We host an election roundtable with Charles Robinson, ER Shipp, and Stephen Janis.
November 4, 2014
November 3, 2014 - Segment 3 - Maryland State Delegate Shawn Tarrant (D-40th) talks about his write-in campaign against Del. Frank Conaway, Jr. Also joining us are Marvin L. "Doc" Cheatham, Rob Lapin, Bill Marker, and Clerk Frank Conaway, Sr.
November 4, 2014
November 3, 2014 - Segment 2 - Baltimore City State's Attorney Candidate Marilyn Mosby joins us to talk about her campaign and her vision for the city.
November 4, 2014
November 3, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the 1979 Greensboro Massacre, when five members of the Communist Workers Party were shot by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis during a "Death to the Klan" rally, John Willis Menard becoming the first African American elected to the US Congress, and the death of Annie Oakley.
November 4, 2014
October 31, 2014 - Segment 4 - We close out the show with a panel discussion I moderated last weekend at Everyman Theatre in Baltimore, part of the World of the Play series, called "A New Top Gun, A New War."
November 4, 2014
October 31, 2014 - Segment 3 - In follow-up to our conversation last week with journalist James Risen, we talk with Marcy Wheeler and Norman Solomon about their article: "The Government War Against Reporter James Risen."
November 4, 2014
October 31, 2014 - Segment 2 - We talk about the influence that the Edison Electric Institute, ALEC, and the coal industry are exerting on a number of organizations of Black elected officials.
November 4, 2014
October 31, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Tennessee sent in leased convict laborers to break a coal miners strike in Anderson County, the day circus and vaudeville performer Mercy Lavinia Warren Bump Stratton was born, and the day Harry Houdini died.
October 30, 2014
October 30, 2014 - Segment 4 - We close out the show with defense attorney Russell A. Neverdon, Sr.,write-in candidate for Baltimore City State's Attorney, who joins us in-studio to talk about his vision for Baltimore's future.
October 30, 2014
October 30, 2014 - Segment 3 - We take a look at The Whiteness Project, an interactive investigation into how Americans who identify themselves as "white" experience their ethnicity, with the creator of that project and a roundtable of guests.
October 30, 2014
October 30, 2014 - Segment 2 - With the elections coming up next Tuesday, listen in to a rebroadcast of my interview with Republican gubernatorial candidate Larry Hogan and his Lieutenant Governor candidate Boyd Rutherford.
October 30, 2014
October 30, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day African American quilter Harriet Powers was born, the day Jam Master Jay from Run-DMC was murdered, and the day Pontiac informed Major Henry Gladwin that he wanted peace and an end to the fighting at Fort Detroit.
October 30, 2014
October 29, 2014 - Segment 5 - City Paper Senior Editor Baynard Woods joins us to tell us what's in this week's issue of the City Paper.
October 30, 2014
October 29, 2014 - Segment 4 - We discuss a debate that is raging around the Baltimore County Animal Services (BCAS). BCAS has banned volunteers from photographing animals in the shelter, and the ACLU of Maryland has weighed in on the topic, calling the ban unconstitutional. J
October 30, 2014
October 29, 2014 - Segment 3 - We discuss some issues around Ebola, including the question of quarantines and how the virus is transmitted.
October 30, 2014
October 29, 2014 - Segment 2 - We celebrate the 150th anniversary of a very special day in history, Maryland Emancipation Day, which commemorates the day Maryland became the first slave state to free its slaves by popular vote, when the Maryland Legislature adopted a new state constitution that emancipated them.
October 30, 2014
October 29, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including Benito Mussolini's appointment as Prime Minister of Italy, the 1929 New York Stock Exchange crash that launched the Great Depression, and Mohammad Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, winning his first professional fight.
October 28, 2014
October 28, 2014 - Segment 4 - It's the newest episode of Sound Bites, our weekly show on our food, our world, and our future! We begin the hour with a poll released last week indicating that 93% of all doctors are concerned about the routine use of antibiotics on healthy farm animals, and discuss poultry farms being fined over Chesapeake Bay pollution. We also visit Hidden Harvest Farm in Baltimore City.
October 28, 2014
October 28, 2014 - Segment 3 - I'm joined by world-renowned Afro-Cuban Filmmaker Gloria Rolando, who is currently visiting and speaking at Morgan State University on telling African diaspora history history through film.
October 28, 2014
October 28, 2014 - Segment 2 - I talk with the inimitable Dr. Cornel West! The author and Union Theological Seminary professor joins me to discuss his new book Black Prophetic Fire. In Black Prophetic Fire, West offers a new perspective on 6 ninetheenth- and twentieth century African American leaders
October 28, 2014
October 28, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Christopher Columbus arrived in Cuba on his first voyage to the New World, the day Eli Whitney applied for a patent for the cotton gin, and the day Oliver Edward Nelson, jazz musician, arranger and composer, died.
October 28, 2014
October 27, 2014 - Segment 4 - We are joined by Naomi Klein, award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist for The Nation and the Guardian. She discusses her latest book "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate."
October 28, 2014
October 27, 2014 - Segment 3 - We host a local and state news roundtable, examine the upcoming elections and more
October 27, 2014
October 27, 2014 - Segment 2 - Maryland gubernatorial candidate Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown joins us to talk about his vision for the future of our state.
October 27, 2014
October 27, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the founding of Philadelphia, the day Catholic priest Phillip Berrigan and others of the Baltimore Four protested the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Service records at the Custom House in Baltimore, and the opening of the first underground New York subway.
October 27, 2014
October 24, 2014 - Segment 4 - We close out the show with a discussion of ROOTSfest and an event reflecting on it, with Alternate ROOT, Culture Works and community artist Ashley Minner.
October 27, 2014
October 24, 2014 - Segment 3 - We ask the question, based on an article in this week's Atlantic magazine: "Can Homeless People Move into Baltimore's Abandoned Houses?" With Jeff Singer, Tony Simmons and Rachel Kutler.
October 27, 2014
October 24, 2014 - Segment 2 - Listen to my live interview with Piper Kerman, whose best-selling memoir of her time in prison, Orange is the New Black, is the basis for the popular television series of the same name. Kerman will be speaking at Center Stage in Baltimore on Monday as part of the Open Society Institute-Baltimore's Big Change event.