Show Podcasts

Archives of the show until 2018. For recent archives, go to: The Marc Steiner Show at the Real News Network

October 27, 2014
The Great Migration
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October 24: This Day In History

October 24, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the Department of Labor reporter 500,000 Blacks had left the South between 1922-1923, the birthday of The Big Bopper, and the day civil rights activist Rosa Parks passed away.
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October 26, 2014
Michelle Alexander
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Michelle Alexander On Mass Incarceration and African Americans

October 23, 2014 - Segment 5 - We close out the show with a special archive edition of The Marc Steiner Show, our conversation with civil rights litigator and legal scholar Michelle Alexander about mass incarceration and African Americans. Alexander is the author of the highly-acclaimed book The New Jim Crow.
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October 26, 2014
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Everyman Theatre: George Brant on His Play “Grounded”

October 23, 2014 - Segment 4 - I talk with playwright George Brant, who wrote the current production at Everyman Theatre, Grounded. Brant is a Core Writer at the Playwrights' Center whose work has been produced internationally.
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October 26, 2014
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From Ferguson to Gaza: Black & Palestinian Communities and Activism

October 23, 2014 - Segment 3 - We discuss the growing synergy between African American and Palestinian activists in the U.S., and discuss the points of unity and tension within Black and Arab communities.
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October 26, 2014
risen
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James Risen on His New Book: ‘Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War’

October 23, 2014 - Segment 2 - Marc speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist James Risen about his powerful new book, Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War. Risen documents a "homeland security-industrial complex" that has emerged since the events of 9/11.
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October 26, 2014
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October 23: This Day in History

October 23, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the births of Michael Eric Dyson and Gummo Marx, the outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 and the launch of the 1790 revolt in Haiti.
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October 26, 2014
Dr. Sonia Sanchez
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From The Archives: Poet, Activist and Author Dr. Sonia Sanchez

October 22, 2014 - Segment 4 - We close out the show with a very special archive edition of The Marc Steiner Show. Listen in to my 2010 interview with poet, activist and author Dr. Sonia Sanchez. The author of over 16 books, Sanchez is an expert on Black culture and literature, women's liberation, and racial justice.
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October 26, 2014
Dr. Gregory Thornton
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This Week in City Paper: Baltimore City Schools CEO Dr. Gregory Thornton

October 22, 2014 - Segment 3 - We talk with Baltimore City Paper Senior Editor Baynard Woods for our weekly check-in. This week's City Paper features an interview with new Baltimore City Schools CEO Dr. Gregory Thornton.
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October 26, 2014
David Wilson, one of the owners of Sweet & Natural, a vegan cafe and bakeshop in Mt. Rainier, prepares orders for people in line at his booth at the Vegan SoulFest.
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Afro-Veganism & Baltimore’s Vegan SoulFest

October 22, 2014 - Segment 2 - Listen to our conversation on Afro-Veganism and hear a sneak preview of an exciting and delicious festival taking place this weekend in Baltimore: Vegan SoulFest! The free event features vegan food, nutrition experts, vegan cooking demonstrations and more.
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October 26, 2014
Bobby Seale
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October 22: This Day In History

October 22, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the birthday of women's rights advocate Abigail Scott Duniway, the birthday of Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale, and the day 225 thousand students boycotted Chicago, IL schools to protest de facto segregation in 1963.
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October 21, 2014
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Sound Bites: How Institutional Buying Practices Can Impact Local Farmers, Both Conventional & Non-Industrial

October 21, 2014 - Segment 3 - In our latest episode of Sound Bites we examine the power of large institutions in purchasing food. We discuss both conventional and non-industrial agriculture in the context of institutional food buying. The panel participated in a wide-ranging discussion about the benefits, challenges and future of both models.
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October 21, 2014
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October 21: This Day in History

October 21, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the death of Jack Kerouac, the birth of Ursula K. Le Guin, and when William Lloyd Garrison, publisher of the Liberator, an abolitionist newspaper, was drug through the streets of Boston, MA, by a pro-slavery mob in 1835.
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October 20, 2014
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Racial Divides in Baltimore’s Art World

October 20, 2013 - Segment 3 - We host a panel on the racial divides in the artistic world in Baltimore, inspired by articles in last week's Baltimore City Paper's 2014 Fall Arts Guide. With Kalima Young, Baynard Woods, Deana Haggag and Mia Loving.
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October 20, 2014
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Update on Ferguson from Young Journalists and Activists

October 20, 2014 - Segment 2 - We get an update on events in Ferguson, Missouri, with a number of young journalists and activists who recently returned from that troubled city: freelance reporter Michelle Zei; Muna Mire, intern for The Nation; Ralikh Hayes, executive assistant for the Real News Network and and Board President of the Baltimore Algebra Project; and Megan Sherman, producer at the Real News Network.
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October 20, 2014
Rimbaud
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October 20: This Day in History

October 20, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the 1952 arrest of suspected leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising, including Jomo Kenyatta, the death of socialist leader Eugene V. Debs, and the birth of poet Arthur Rimbaud.
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October 20, 2014
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Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis

October 17, 2014 - Segment 2 - Dr. Karsonya "Kaye" Whitehead, Assistant Professor of Communication and Affiliate Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies at Loyola University Maryland, talks about her book Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis, which recently received the Letitia Woods Brown Book Award for the Best Edited Book in African American History from the Association of Black Women Historians.
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October 20, 2014
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: An Indigenous People’s History of the United States

October 17, 2014 - Segment 1 - Listen to Marc's interview with Native American author, historian, feminist, and self-described revolutionary Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her fascinating and informative book An Indigenous People’s History of the United States.
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October 16, 2014
John Waters
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John Waters’ Carsick

October 16, 2014 - Segment 2 - Listen to a very special treat when I interview a true Baltimore icon, the legendary filmmaker and author John Waters! John joins me to talk about his fifty-year career, his recent book Carsick, and a recent tribute and retrospective at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, “50 Years of John Waters: How Much Can You Take?”
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October 15, 2014
D. Watkins
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D. Watkins on Representations of Baltimore, Telling Its Stories & Where We Need To Go

October 15, 2014 - Segment 3 - Marc and educator Koli Tengella talk to author, filmmaker and Coppin State University professor D. Watkins about his recent writings, the Baltimore media landscape, different representations of Baltimore in writing and film, and the things that hold young people in Baltimore back from reaching their potential.
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October 15, 2014
Steve Biko
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Remembering Steve Biko: His Life, His Legacy & South Africa Today

October 15, 2014 - Segment 1 - Listen in to our show commemorating Steve Biko, who was murdered in 1977 while in custody of the South African police. Biko was an anti-apartheid activist in the 1960s and 70s and founder of the Black Consciousness Movement. We reflect upon his life, his legacy, Black Consciousness, and South Africa today.
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October 14, 2014
Boone Street Farm
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Best of Sound Bites: Small Farmers Talk About Why They Farm

October 14, 2014 - Segment 2 - We have a roundtable with small farmers, including: Denzel Mitchell, Founder and Farm Manager, Five Seeds Family Farm and Apiary; Cheryl Carmona, Co-founder of Boone Street Farm in East Baltimore; Ted Wycall third generation farmer at Greenbranch Farm in Salisbury, MD; and Carole Morrison of Bird's Eye View Farm in Pocomoke City.
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October 14, 2014
Eddie Conway
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Marshall “Eddie” Conway: Life After Prison & The Future of Baltimore

October 14, 2014 - Segment 1 - We have a conversation with former Black Panther Marshall "Eddie" Conway, who was released from prison earlier this year after being incarcerated for 44 years. We talk about his time in prison, his work with young men inside and outside prison, and Friend of a Friend, a mentoring project he started with American Friends Service Committee.
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October 13, 2014
AVAM
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American Visionary Arts Museum: Human, Soul & Machine: The Coming Singularity

October 13, 2014 - Segment 2 - It's WEAA's Fall Membership Drive! We listen back to some of our best arts programming from 2014. First, it's our visit to the American Visionary Arts Museum's last exhibit, “Human, Soul & Machine: The Coming Singularity,” with Rebecca Hoffberger, Founder and Director of AVAM.
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October 13, 2014
Reyna Grande
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Reyna Grande: The Distance Between Us

October 13, 2014 - Segment 1 - It's WEAA's Fall Membership Drive! Call us this week during the show between 10:00 AM and noon eastern time at 410-319-8888 to make a pledge. We meet National Book Critics Award Finalist Reyna Grande. Her memoir, The Distance Between Us, is this year’s One Maryland One Book selection.
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October 13, 2014
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Understanding: Bridging the Gulf Between Arab and Western Cultures

October 10, 2014 - Segment 5 - We listen back to a conversation with Haneen Alshujairy, who fled her home in Iraq with her family in 2003, and Justin Sirois, a writer living in Baltimore. Alshujairy and Sirois are co-founders of the Understanding Campaign, which seeks to teach everyone in the world one word of Arabic: Fhm (fuh-hem'), which literally means "understanding." Their hope is that by learning one simple word, people can begin to bridge the gulf between Arab and Western cultures.
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October 13, 2014
blaqstarr
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Cultural Crossroads: Afrofuturism

October 10, 2014 - Segment 4 - We rebroadcast of our show on Afrofuturism, with world-renowned Gospel and Blues singer Lea Gilmore! Lea and Marc talk with: Baltimore-based producer, DJ, and singer Blaqstarr; poet, MC, singer and producer Camae Defstar, aka Moor Mother Goddess; and author, filmmaker, dancer, and futurist Ytasha L. Womack. Womack's latest book, Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci Fi and Fantasy explores black sci fi culture, black comix, and the legacy of Afrofuturism.
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October 13, 2014
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Black Nationalism Today

October 10, 2014 - Segment 2 - We turn to a conversation about Black nationalism and its role in the political and cultural landscape today. Our guests include: Dr. Lester Spence, Center for Emerging Media Scholar-In-Residence and Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University; author and songwriter John Wesley; and Dr. Jeff Menzise, licensed school psychologist in Washington, DC, and author of Dumbin' Down: Reflections on the Mis-Education of the Negro.
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October 13, 2014
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October 10: This Day in History

October 10, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the birth of pianist and composer Thelonius Monk, the premier of George Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess, and the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew.
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October 13, 2014
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Health and Fitness: Breast Cancer Awareness

October 9, 2014 - Segment 4 - We close out the show with our monthly health and fitness segment with Chauncey Whitehead and Ernestine Shepherd! October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and Rhonda Silva, Division Administrator of the Baltimore City Cancer Program (BCCP) at the University of Maryland's Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center, joins us as we focus on breast cancer awareness and fitness.
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October 13, 2014
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Baltimore Orioles in the Playoffs

October 9, 2014 - Segment 3 - How 'bout dem O's? The Orioles are in the American League playoffs! We talk about our home team with: Milton Kent, freelance journalist and Lecturer in the Department of Multimedia Journalism in the School of Global Journalism and Communication at Morgan State University; and Jerry Bembry, veteran sports journalist and co-host of WEAA's Black Top Exchange Sports Report.
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October 13, 2014
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October 9: This Day in History

October 9, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the death of Che Guevara, the 1970 proclamation of the Khmer Republic in Cambodia, the honoring of James Herbert "Eubie" Blake in 1981 with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, from President Ronald Reagan.
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October 13, 2014
Maryland governor Debate
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Local & State Roundup: Upcoming Elections, Charm City Circulator and More

October 8, 2014 - Segment 3 - We host a roundtable discussion on local and state issues, including the upcoming elections and the Charm City Circulator with Laslo Boyd, Melody Simmons, and Charles Robinson.
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October 13, 2014
Remedios Varo
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October 8: This Day In History

October 8, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Spanish-Mexican surrealist artist Remedios Varo died, the day the first women's prison run by women opened at the Indiana Reformatory Institute, and the day Chuck Berry was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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October 8, 2014
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Sound Bites: Greener Garden Urban Farm and Oak Hill Honey

October 7, 2014 - Segment 4 - On our newest edition of Sound Bites, we take a trip to the Greener Garden Urban Farm in Baltimore, where we will hear from: Warren and LaVette Blue, farmers at Greener Garden Urban Farm; and Willie Flowers, Executive Director of the Park Heights Community Health Alliance. We close out the show with a piece on harvesting honey In the city, with: Dane Nester, beekeeper at Oak Hill Honey in Baltimore. It was produced by former Sound Bites intern Maggie Dier.
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October 8, 2014
lovethepoet
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Theatre Baltimore: God’s Country Featuring LOVE the Poet

October 7, 2014 - Segment 3 - Join us for a sneak peek of God's Country, a performance by LOVE the Poet opening for a one week run by the Strand Theater Company. We're joined by Michelle Antoinette aka LOVE the Poet, spoken word artist and musician.
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October 8, 2014
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A Shareholder Solution to Citizens United

October 7, 2014 - Segment 2 - Marc talks with Maryland State Senator and First Amendment scholar Jamie Raskin about his op-ed in the Washington Post last week, "A shareholder solution to 'Citizens United.'" Also joining us for this conversation is John Nichols, Washington Correspondent for The Nation and co-author of Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America.
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October 8, 2014
toni
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October 7: This Day in History

October 7, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the discover of Matthew Shepard's body, a gay man who was beaten to death in Laramie, Wyoming, the birth of anarchist singer and activist Joe Hill, and Toni Morrison becoming the first African American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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October 8, 2014
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Baltimore City: Breaking Your Heart?

October 6, 2014 - Segment 3 - We listen back to an archive edition of the Marc Steiner Show from last year where we discussed the article, "Baltimore City, You're Breaking My Heart" and the many responses to it. That article recently took the title for Baltimore City Paper's "Best White Whine" of 2014.
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October 8, 2014
Ebola
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National News Roundtable: Education and Pandemics

October 6, 2014 - Segment 2 - Dr. Lawrence Brown, activist, public health consultant, and Assistant Professor of Public Health in the School of Community Health and Policy at Morgan State University, sits in for Marc as host to round up all things newsworthy, including a discussion on the changing landscape of public education and analysis of emerging pandemics
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October 8, 2014
FANNY LOU HAMER
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October 6: This Day in History

October 6, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the births of Fannie Lou Hamer and Gerry Adams, the launch of the Yom Kippur War, and the 1976 massacre of students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand.
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October 6, 2014
The Holmes Brothers
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Conversation with Wendell Holmes of The Holmes Brothers

October 3, 2014 - Segment 2 - We meet Wendell Holmes of The Holmes Brothers, a blues and gospel trio that has performed together for five decades. They recently won the NEA National Heritage Fellowship, the highest honor the United States bestows upon traditional artists.
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