June 28, 2016
June 27, 2016 - Segment 3 - Our guests discuss last week's approval of the Port Covington Master Plan by the Baltimore Planning Commission. With: Dr. Lawrence Brown, Natalie Sherman, Charly Carter, and Melody Simmons.
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June 24, 2016
June 24, 2016 - Segment 3 - We talk with Baltimore native Lawrence Jackson, who is a contributor toHarper's Magazine. His most recent writing is, "Letter from Baltimore: The City That Bleeds: Freddie Gray and the Makings of an American Uprising."
June 24, 2016
June 24, 2016 - Segment 2 - We host a Legal Roundtable on today's not guilty verdict for Officer Caesar Goodson in the death of Freddie Gray. Then, we continue our discussion on the Officer Goodson verdict, with a community roundtable of panelists.
June 24, 2016
June 24, 2016 - Segment 1 - We begin the show with the newest edition of Tengella's Take with Koli Tengella. Koli is President of Tengella Edutainment, an instructor and creator of the Positive Social Change Performing Arts Program at Augusta Fells Savage Institute.
June 23, 2016
June 23, 2016 - Segment 3 - The verdict in the Officer Caesar Goodson trial, in the death of Freddie Gray, is scheduled for this morning. Our panel of guests will discuss and analyze the decision.
June 21, 2016
June 21, 2016 - Segment 3 - We preview an upcoming event hosted by Open Society Institute-Baltimore, "Talking About Race: Confronting the New Islamophobia." With: Deepa Iyer and Amardeep Singh.
June 21, 2016
June 20, 2016 - Segment 2 - We turn to the tragedy in Orlando, in light of the most recent happenings and information. With: Tariq Touré, Kalima Young, Bryanna Jenkins, and Jetaime Celestine.
June 16, 2016
June 15, 2016 - Segment 2 - We look at a report released by No Boundaries Coalition, a Central West Baltimore community organization, on alleged police misconduct in West Baltimore. The report is titled "Over-Policed, Yet Under-served," and details stories of police misconduct witnessed and experienced by West Baltimore residents.
June 10, 2016
June 10, 2016 - Segment 2 - We check in with the trial of Officer Caesar Goodson in the death of Freddie Gray. Goodson was the driver of the van in which Gray allegedly sustained his fatal injuries. With Doug Colbert, Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law.
June 9, 2016
June 8, 2016 - Segment 3 - We look at two disturbing legal cases in sharp contrast, both out of California: the sentencing of Black Lives Matter activist Jasmine Richards and the sentencing of a Stanford University male athlete convicted of raping an unconscious woman on Stanford's campus.
June 3, 2016
June 3, 2016 - Segment 3 - We host an interview with Morgan State University alumnus Norwood Johnson about his book It Takes a Hood: Two Young African Americans Take Responsibility for Ending Baltimore Crime. Johnson is a retired technical writing expert analyst for the federal government.
June 1, 2016
May 31, 2016 - Segment 3 - Will you watch the premiere of the new Roots series tonight? We discuss the remake of the groundbreaking series with: Dr. Lester Spence, David Zurawik, and Carla Wills.
June 1, 2016
May 31, 2016 - Segment 1 - We begin the show with a preview of an important event happening this Thursday, hosted by New Lens. Blackonomics: Housing is a video screening, panel discussion and poetry event that examines where we live and how it impacts the Black community.
May 31, 2016
May 26, 2016 - Segment 1 - We begin the show with a remembrance of activist Yuri Kochiyama. Last week would have been her 95th birthday.
May 25, 2016
May 25, 2016 - Segment 3 - We continue our reflection and discussion on the Officer Edward Nero "not guilty" verdict in the death of Freddie Gray. With: Dominque Stevenson, Program Director for the American Friends Service Committee and co-author with Eddie Conway of Marshall Law: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther; Michaela Duchess Brown, head of communications for Bmore Bloc; and JC Faulk, organizational development consultant and activist.
May 24, 2016
May 24, 2016 - Segment 1 - We host a discussion on the verdict of "not guilty on all charges" that was handed down today for Officer Edward Nero in the death of Freddie Gray. With: Doug Colbert, A. Dwight Pettit, and Thomas Maronick.
May 23, 2016
May 20, 2016 - Segment 1 - I interview Dr. Manisha Sinha, who is the author of the amazing new book The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition.
May 19, 2016
May 18, 2016 - Segment 3 - We turn to politics with a discussion on Bernie Sanders, Race and Black Folks. With: Kalima Young and Marshall "Eddie" Conway.
May 13, 2016
May 9, 2016 - Segment 1 - We begin the show with Episode 1 of The World That Brought Us Freddie Gray, a 5-part radio documentary produced by students at UMBC. The first episode analyzes the role of the law and legal system.
May 13, 2016
May 10, 2016 - Segment 1 - We begin the show with Episode 2 of The World That Brought Us Freddie Gray, a 5-part radio documentary produced by students at the UMBC. Episode 2 looks at how policing and police-community relations are part of the story.
May 13, 2016
May 12, 2016 - Segment 1 - We host Part 4 of The World That Brought Us Freddie Gray, a 5-part radio documentary produced by students at UMBC. Episode 4 focuses on issues connected to housing.
May 11, 2016
May 10, 2016 - Segment 2 - We host another episode of our month-long series Baltimore Uprising: One Year Later. The episode focuses on Economic Development Alternatives in Baltimore & How We Get There.
May 6, 2016
May 6, 2016 - Segment 3 - We continue with Baltimore Uprising, One Year Later, with a rebroadcast of a piece we produced a year ago, featuring the voices of people at protests during the Uprising.
May 6, 2016
May 5, 2016 - Segment 2 - We continue our feature Baltimore Uprising: One Year Later, as Steiner Show producer Mark Gunnery interviews Jean Albert Renaud in a conversation about the 1968 riots. Renaud is a former Motown artist, horseman, wild Mustang rancher, and founder of Protect Yourself 1 and Project Arrowhead, two programs for at-risk youth.
April 29, 2016
April 29, 2016 - Segment 3 - We have a conversation with Ali Issa, national field organizer for War Resisters League, about his book "Against All Odds: Voices of Popular Struggle in Iraq."
April 29, 2016
April 29, 2016 - Segment 2 - We talk with Ron Cassie, Senior Editor of Baltimore Magazine, about his in-depth and thought-provoking article "A Tale of Two Cities: For half a century, West Baltimore was a vital center of black culture, mixed-income neighborhoods, and groundbreaking civil rights activism. After Freddie Gray, can it be again?"
April 29, 2016
April 27, 2016 - Segment 3 - We host the most recent episode of Baltimore Uprising, One Year Later. With: Malaika Aminata Clements, Ericka Alston, Dr. Karsonya "Kaye" Whitehead.
April 22, 2016
April 22, 2016 - Segment 3 - We host the first part of a broadcast of the Baltimore Mayoral Forum for Ex-Offenders, which took place Wednesday, April 14, at Douglas Memorial Community Church. Candidates who participated included: Sheila Dixon, Elizabeth Embry, Joshua Harris, DeRay McKesson, State Senator Catherine Pugh, Councilman Carl Stokes, and David Warnock.
April 22, 2016
April 19, 2016 - Segment 2 - Today is the one-year anniversary of the death of Freddie Gray. Producer Stefanie Mavronis brings us a conversation with Ralikh Hayes, organizer with Bmore Bloc, about the anniversary of Gray's death and of the Baltimore Uprising.
April 14, 2016
April 13, 2016 - Segment 2 - We host a rebroadcast of "Symbols of the Confederacy," about Baltimore's statuary honoring the Confederacy. Our panel of guests includes: Zoë Carpenter, Yoni Appelbaum, Chris Roberts, Dr. Tara Bynum, and Evan Serpick.
April 14, 2016
April 13, 2016 - Segment 2 - We host a conversation with Dr. David Pilgrim. He is a professor, orator, and human rights activist best known as the founder and curator of the Jim Crow Museum. We talk about his book Understanding Jim Crow: Using Racist Memorabilia to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice.
April 12, 2016
April 12, 2016 - Segment 2 - We hear a rebroadcast of a fascinating conversation in which our guests examined Ta-Nehisi Coates' critiques earlier this year of Bernie Sanders' stance on reparations.
April 12, 2016
April 12, 2016 - Segment 1 - We begin the show with an encore presentation of the conversation I had with Joy-Ann Reid a few weeks ago at the Enoch Pratt Free Library about her book Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide. Reid is a national correspondent for MSNBC.
April 12, 2016
April 11, 2016 - Segment 2 - We take a look at the controversy over what has been called the "whitewash" of the Oscars. With: Ann Hornaday, Dr. Kimberly Moffitt, and Kalima Young.
April 12, 2016
April 11, 2016 - Segment 1 - Dr. Karsonya "Kaye" Wise Whitehead, Assistant Professor of Communication and Affiliate Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies at Loyola University Maryland, joins us to talk about her new book, RaceBrave: New and Selected Works.
April 8, 2016
April 8th, 2016 - Segment 2 - We play a segment of our project: Baltimore Uprising, One Year Later, we talk with cellist, artist, and Baker Artist Award recipient Paul Rucker about history, art, and the Uprising.
April 7, 2016
April 7, 2016 - Segment 3 - On Sound Bites, we discuss Natasha Bowens' 'The Color of Food: Stories of Race, Resilience and Farming' and discuss the ways that race intersects with agriculture and our food movement.
April 7, 2016
April 7, 2016 - Segment 2 - We rebroadcast a show from earlier this year based on a feature in the Baltimore City Paper: Four Voices on Reparations with three of the four featured writers.
April 7, 2016
April 5, 2016 - Segment 4 - We feature a sneak peek at a compelling new documentary on mass incarceration of Black men called Free Young Blood.
April 7, 2016
April 5, 2016 - Segment 2 - The Maryland General Assembly is winding down, and we hear an update on the state of legislation on police accountability before the state legislature. With: Dayvon Love, Director of Research and Public Policy for Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle.
April 5, 2016
April 4, 2016 - Segment 1 Our guests discuss racial biases and police/community relationships with: Tiffany Welch and Ray Kelly.
April 1, 2016
April 1, 2016 - Segment 3 - We play a rebroadcast of a compeling discussion from December 2015 on "The Burqa Issue" of the online magazine OF NOTE, one of the first online magazines focused on global artists using the arts as catalysts for activism and social change. The special issue examined the complicated experiences of women who wear the burqa.
April 1, 2016
March 31, 2016 - Segment 1 - We rebroadcast a fascinating discussion held earlier this year with Dr. Alondra Nelson, talks about her book The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome.
March 30, 2016
March 29, 2016 - Segment 3 - We host a discussion with filmmaker and racial equity educator Dr. Shakti Butler about her film Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity. Butler is President of World Trust, an organization that collaborates with groups and communities, using film and conversation to address subjects such as race and privilege.
March 30, 2016
March 29, 2016 - Segment 1 - We host a discussion and debate on U.S. foreign policy regarding ISIS. With: James Phillips, Peter Certo, Malcolm Nance, Brian Bennet, Malcolm Nance.
March 30, 2016
March 28, 2016 - Segment 2 - We check in with the current state of the War on Drugs, with: Neill Franklin, former Baltimore and Maryland State Police officer and Executive Director of LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition).
March 30, 2016
March 28, 2016 - Segment 1 - We host a conversation with with author Dan Baum, about his current front page article in Harper's magazine, Legalize It All: How to win the war on drugs, which discusses how the Nixon administration's "War on Drugs" was started to attack Black people and the anti-war left.
March 25, 2016
March 25, 2016 - Segment 4 - We host a rebroadcast of our show from January when our panel of guests examined Ta-Nehisi Coates' critique of Bernie Sanders' statements about reparations. With: A. Adar Ayira, Dr. Lester Spence, and Bill Fletcher, Jr.
March 25, 2016
March 25, 2016 - Segment 3 - We host a special archive edition of The Marc Steiner Show from 2009, when Abenaki Indian author and storyteller Joseph Bruchac joined us to reflect on Columbus Day, from his perspective as someone with both Abenaki Indian and European heritage. Abenaki has authored over 70 books, and has worked extensively as a musician and educator.
March 25, 2016
March 25, 2016 - Segment 1 - We host our our weekly feature Tengella's Take with Koli Tengella. Koli is President of Tengella Edutainment, an instructor and creator of the Positive Social Change Performing Arts Program at Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts High School, and he was a 2010 Open Society Institute Fellow.