June 12, 2013
June 12, 2013 - Segment 1 - We mark the 50th anniversary of civil rights leader Medgar Evers' assassination. We're joined by Ray Winbush and John Wesley.
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June 11, 2013
June 10, 2013-Segment 4-We take the time to remember civil rights leader and member of the Goon Squad, Homer Favor, who died June 8.
June 6, 2013
June 6, 2013 - Segment 2 - We discuss the ACLU study released this week that reveals racial disparities in marijuana possession arrests, and lists Maryland as fourth in the nation for such arrests. We will examine implications of the study as well as America's drug policy.
June 4, 2013
June 4, 2013 - Segment 3 - Meagan Hatcher-Mays, recent graduate of Washington University Law School in St. Louis and freelance contributor for Jezebel, offers a commentary on the Cheerios commercial that polarized the online community because of its depiction of a multiracial family.
May 31, 2013
May 31, 2013 - Segment 2 - We have an update on George Zimmerman and his second-degree-murder trial in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin from Jenée Desmond-Harris, staff writer and White House correspondent for The Root.
May 29, 2013
March 29, 2013 - Segment 2 - Journalist, author, and Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University Farai Chideya joins us to talk about the lack of diversity in media.
May 8, 2013
May 7, 2013- Segment 4 - We spoke with Tom Reiss, who recently won a Pulitzer Prize for his book The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo.
May 6, 2013
May 6, 2013 -Segment -2-Glen Ford, Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report.com and Peniel E. Joseph, Professor of History at Tufts University talked about Assata Shakur placing on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists List.
May 2, 2013
May 2, 2013 - Segment 3 - It's the latest episode of Sound Bites, featuring Malik Yakini, Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, and a debate on whether or not genetically engineered foods should be labeled.
April 30, 2013
April 30, 2013 - Segment 3 - We discuss the collapse of a factory in Bangladesh that left nearly 400 people dead last week.
April 24, 2013
April 24, 2013 - Segment 3 - We turn to an important piece of Baltimore Civil Rights history as we talk with filmmaker Pete O'Neal about his new documentary, All the King's Horses: The Story of Gwynn Oak Park. The film explores the struggle in the 1960s to desegregate Baltimore's Gwynn Oak Park.
April 24, 2013
April 24, 2013 - Segment 2 - We have a conversation about the ways racism has affected media discourse around the attacks on the Boston marathon last week.
April 23, 2013
April 23, 2013 - Segment 5 - We discuss segregation based on race and class in Maryland public schools.
April 23, 2013
April 23, 2013 - Segment 4 - Last week, a bipartisan group of Senators proposed immigration reform legislation. We'll discuss it with Colorlines writer Aura Bogado and Charles Lollar of New Day Maryland.
April 18, 2013
April 18, 2013 - Segment 2 - We look at race and media coverage in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing with Steven Salaita, author of Anti-Arab Racism In The USA, and Matt Gertz of Media Matters.
April 11, 2013
April 11, 2013 - Hour 2 - Jeanne Theoharis joins us to speak about her new book The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. The book is the first critical biography of Parks, and it is revealing and comprehensive, exploring her activism before, during, and after her famous act of protest in 1955.
April 11, 2013
April 11, 2013 - Hour 1 - Michael Higginbotham joins us to speak about his latest book, Ghosts of Jim Crow: Ending Racism in Post-Racial America. The book explores how laws and systemic prejudice have maintained racial hierarchy and separation, both historically and today.