Racism

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

March 8, 2017

Chris Crass: Collective Liberation in the Era of Trump

March 8, 2017 - Segment 1 - I sat down for an interview with Chris Crass a longtime organizer, educator, and writer working to build working class-based, feminist, multiracial movements for collective liberation.
March 3, 2017

Democracy In Crises: CPAC and Shane Bauer

March 3, 2017 - Segment 2 - We host the newest episode of Democracy in Crisis, a weekly podcast hosted by Baynard Woods and yours truly and produced by Mark Gunnery for The Center for Emerging Media. We talk with Mother Jones senior reporter Shane Bauer CPAC.
March 1, 2017

Roundtable Conversation: Trump’s Speech Before Congress

March 1, 2017 - Segment 1 - We hosted a panel discussion on Donald Trump's speech before the joint session of Congress, that took place on February 28, 2017. With: Dr. Desiree Melton, and Bill Fletcher, Jr.
February 22, 2017

Dale Beran: 4Chan and The Rise Of Trump

February 22, 2017 - Segment 2 - I talked with Dale Beran, Professor in the SWAN (Screen Writing and Animation) Department at Morgan State University, about the imageboard website 4chan, based on his recent article, "4chan: The Skeleton Key to the Rise of Trump."
February 20, 2017

Never Caught: Conversation With Author Dr. Erica Dunbar

February 20, 2017 - Segment 3 - I talked with author Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar about her new book Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge. Dr. Armstrong Dunbar is the Blue and Gold Professor of Black Studies and History at the University of Delaware.
February 20, 2017

Local Roundtable: ICE Raids and Education

February 20, 2017 - Segment 1 - We hosted a Local News Roundtable discussing topics such as local ICE Raids and Education in Baltimore. With: Attorney and community activist Dana Moore, Edgar Reyes, Luis Larin.
February 17, 2017

Soundbites: Environmental Bills, Fermentation, & Immigration

February 16, 2017 - Segment 3 - We hosted our newest episode of Sound Bites, our series on our food and our world. We began the segment with a couple environmental bills currently before the Maryland Legislature, then discussing fermentation and Immigration and the Food Industry.
February 17, 2017

Democracy in Crisis: The Deportation of Guadalupe García de Rayos

February 16, 2017 - Segment 1 - We hosted the newest episode of Democracy in Crisis, a weekly podcast hosted by Baynard Woods and Marc Steiner and produced by Mark Gunnery for The Center for Emerging Media. We talked with reporter Aura Bogado about a powerful profile she wrote in Teen Vogue.
February 15, 2017

City Paper This Week: Our Town

February 15, 2017 - Segment 3 - We hosted our regular feature City Paper This Week. In this installment, Marc Steiner Show Producer Imani Spence interviews freelance writer Andrew Holterabout his cover story on the history of Nazis in the US.
February 15, 2017

Baltimore Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion Program: Implementation and Benefits

February 15, 2017 - Segment 2 - With our panel of guests we discussesed Baltimore's Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program, created to divert low-level drug offenders away from arrest, to treatment and other support services.
February 13, 2017

National News Roundtable: Resistance

February 13, 2017 - Segment 1 - We hosted a National News Roundtable, and discussed topics such as National Strikes, methods of resistance, and ways to move forward. With: Caprece Jackson-Garrett,Lenny McAllister, and Sean Gallagher.
February 10, 2017

Tengella’s Take: Systematic Racism Is A Mental Illness

February 10, 2017 - Segment 1 - We hosted our newest edition of our weekly segment Tengella's Take, with Center for Emerging Media Satirical Commentator Koli Tengella.
February 8, 2017

Maryland General Assembly: Parole Reform For Life Sentences

February 8, 2017 - Segment 4 - We discussed the issue of parole reform for inmates facing life sentences in Maryland, currently before the Maryland General Assembly. With: Sonia Kumar, and Walter Lomax.
February 3, 2017

Bob Zellner: Organizing In The South

February 3, 2017 - Segment 2 - Marc hosted a conversation with Civil Rights veteran Bob Zellner, former field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), about his decades of organizing among poor white people in the South.
February 1, 2017

Racial Wealth Divide in Baltimore

February 1 - Segment 2 - Marc hosted a conversation on the report the Corporation for Enterprise Development, CFED, released yesterday that reveals a significant gap in wealth between whites and other races in Baltimore. His is joined by Dedrick Asante-Muhammad and Talib Horne.
January 30, 2017

Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz: Vision for the Country

January 30, 2017 - Segment 2 - Marc hosted a conversation with Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz in-studio about what his vision for the County is.
January 30, 2017

National News Roundtable: Donald Trumps Executive Order & Protests Against It

January 30, 2017 - Segment 1 - We hosted a National News Roundtable, topics to include this weekend's protests against Donald Trump's Executive Order to ban people from seven predominantly Muslim nations from entering the United States.
January 27, 2017

John B. Judis: Ascendance of Donald Trump & The Populist Explosion

January 27, 2017 - Segment 2 - We hosted a conversation Marc had last week at the Ivy Bookshop in Baltimore with author and journalist John B. Judis. We discussed the ramifications of the 2016 election, exploring the ascendance of Donald Trump in relation to Judis' recent work The Populist Explosion
January 25, 2017

National News Roundtable: Donald Trump’s Executive Orders

January 25, 2017 - Segment 1 - We host a National News Roundtable, topics to include Donald Trump's Executive Orders and why Democrats are so readily approving his cabinet nominees. With: Bhaskar Sunkara, Rose Aguilar, and Charles Ellison.
January 16, 2017

MLK Remembrance: Legacy and Looking Towards the Trump Administration

January 16, 2017 - Segment 1 - We celebrate the Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday with a panel of guests who met with us last year to discuss the legacy of Dr. King in the context of the Obama Presidency. Now, as we look to the incoming Trump administration, these same three guests will talk about Dr. King's legacy for this moment in time. With: Dedrick Muhammad, Dorcas Gilmore, and Charly Carter.
January 9, 2017

Chicago Assault: Violence, Empathy, & Social Media

January 9, 2017 - Segment 3 - In response to the filmed attack of a young mentally disabled man by 4 youth in Chicago, we host a roundtable discussion on young people, violence, empathy and social media. With: Dr. Kimberly Moffitt, Dr. Natasha Pratt-Harris, D Watkins, and Koli Tengella.
January 6, 2017

E. Ethelbert Miller: Art In The Time Of Trump

January 6, 2017 - Segment 3 - I talk with E. Ethelbert Miller, poet, literary activist, and Board Chairperson of the Institute for Policy Studies. He and I talk about art in the time of Trump, jumping off from a poem he wrote recently about the rise of Donald Trump.
January 6, 2017

Sherrilyn Ifill: Future of the Supreme Court & Voting Rights

January 6, 2017 - Segment 2 - I host an interview with Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. We discussed Senator Jeff Sessions as the potential next Attorney General, her thoughts on the future of the Supreme Court, Civil and Voting Rights in the Trump era, and strategies going forward.
January 4, 2017

Homicide Victims in Baltimore: 2016 And Beyond

January 4, 2017 - Segment 3 - We host a discussion on the 319 homicide victims in Baltimore in 2016 and discuss practical things that will make positive impacts on curbing this issue. With: David Miller, Dr. Daniel W. Webster, Corneilius Wiley Scott III.
December 27, 2016

From The Archives: Building Our City’s Future

December 27, 2016 - Segment 3 - We go back into our archives to a segment from a panel I hosted at the Baltimore Ethical Society. We focused on the topic of Building Our City’s Future. I spoke about the Baltimore Uprising in a historical context, police brutality and what comes next for Baltimore. This talk took place April 3, 2016 at the Baltimore Ethical Society.
December 23, 2016

World Of The Play: Themes & Exploration of Dot

December 23, 2016 - Segment 3 - We play a fascinating panel discussion held last Saturday evening, December 17, at Everyman's World of the Play. The discussion was based on the themes of the current production, Dot, and was titled Mining the Magic of Memory. The panelists were: Temple Crocker, the Reverend Barry Kennard Hargrove, and Ursula Populoh.
December 13, 2016

The Friendliest Town on the Eastern Shore: Community Policing

December 13, 2016 - Segment 3 - We take a look at an important documentary in the works, The Friendliest Town on the Eastern Shore, about a Baltimore City police officer bringing community policing to a small town. With: Stephen Janis, and Taya Graham.
December 13, 2016

Violence In Baltimore: Socio-Economic Perspective

December 13, 2016 - Segment 2 - We host a panel discussion about violence in Baltimore examining the issue through development, employment, and public safety policies, and how the history of economic and racial segregation in this city informs the conversation. With: David Miller, Marshall "Eddie" Conway, the Rev. Dr. Heber Brown, and Sharayna A. Christmas.
December 9, 2016

Dr. Aviva Chomsky: How Immigration Became Illegal

December 9, 2016 - Segment 3 - I talk with author and activist Dr. Aviva Chomsky, professor of History and the Coordinator of Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies at the Salem State University in Massachusetts. Dr. Chomsky is author of the book UNDOCUMENTED: How Immigration Became Illegal.
December 1, 2016

National Roundtable: Dylan Roof / Trump and the First Amedment

November 30, 2016 - Segment 1 - We begin the show with a National News Roundtable, on topics to include the Dylan Roof trial, the Ohio State attack, and Donald Trump's statements about burning the flag.