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Archives of the show until 2018. For recent archives, go to: The Marc Steiner Show at the Real News Network
July 25, 2017
July 25, 2017 - Segment 3 - We hosted our monthly Health & Wellness segment! We're joined in-studio by fitness activist and trainer Chauncey Whitehead, President of CDW Health and Wellness; and Rhonda Silva, Division Administrator of the Baltimore City Cancer Program at the University of Maryland's Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center.
May 31, 2017
May 31, 2017 - Segment 1 - The great sports journalist, commentator, and novelist Frank DeFord died yesterday May 28, 2017. To remember him and his legacy we hosted an interview from 2011 on Exploitation in College Sports, with Frank and Taylor Branch.
May 16, 2017
May 16, 2017 - Segment 2 - We take a look at baseball and African Americans in light of the recent altercations between the Orioles and the Red Sox.
May 10, 2017
May 10, 2017 - Segment 4 - We hosted our regular segment City Paper This Week. Editor at Large Baynard Woods and Steiner Show Senior Producer Mark Gunnery talked about this week's issue.
April 21, 2017
April 20, 2017 - Segment 1 - I had a moving interview with two individuals who are the actual people behind the inspirational story depicted in the book and movie "Queen of Katwe." I talked with Phiona Mutesi and Robert Katende, and Jackie Copeland.
April 5, 2017
April 5, 2017 - Segment 3 - We hosted our regular feature City Paper This Week, featuring the Camden Yards issue.
March 15, 2017
March 15, 2017 - Segment 2 - We hosted a special feature on Poly Basketball in Baltimore with City Paper This Week! City Paper photographer and reporter Reginald Thomas II joins us to talk about his special photo essay and coverage of the team.
March 15, 2017
March 15, 2017 - Segment 1 - Baltimore's own Polytechnic Institute's boys basketball team won the Class 3A state championship. We hosted a special feature on the victorious Poly team, in conjunction with the Baltimore City Paper. With: Sam Brand, and Anthony Fitzgerald.
February 22, 2017
February 22, 2017 - Segment 4 - We hosted our regular feature City Paper This Week. Steiner Show Senior Producer Mark Gunnery talked with freelance journalist and City Paper contributor Annalies Winny.
February 10, 2017
February 10, 2017 - Segment 4 - We hosted a very special archive edition of The Marc Steiner Show, Marc's 1996 interview with boxing legend Joe Frazier!
January 18, 2017
January 18, 2017 - Segment 2 - We host a roundtable discussion on the NFL Playoffs, the NBA Season Halfway Point, and Baltimore boxing champion Gervonta Davis. With: Andre Melton, Ali Danois, and Milton Kent.
December 8, 2016
December 7, 2016 - Segment 4 - Our regular feature City Paper This Week. Brandon Soderberg is joined by Reginald Thomas as they talk about Poly High School basketball.
October 31, 2016
October 31, 2016 - Segment 2 - We turn to Native American issues, including the name of the Cleveland team and current events at Standing Rock Reservation.
October 7, 2016
October 7, 2016 - Segment 2 - We check in with fitness trainer and activist Chauncey Whiteheadand Ernestine Shepherd, the world's oldest competitive female bodybuilder, for our monthly Health & Fitness segment.
October 4, 2016
October 4, 2016 - Segment 3 - A discussion on sports, diversity, and patriotism, based on the New York Times article last week about the regular singing of "This Land is Your Land" in the 7th innings of Friday night Orioles' home games
September 25, 2016
September 26, 2016 - Segment 2 Our panel of guests looks at the spread of protests across the country following in the footsteps of San Francisco 49ers player Colin Kaepernick
September 1, 2016
August 30, 2016 - Segment 2 - We turn to sports and politics, reflecting upon the actions of San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who has refused to stand for the playing of the national anthem during games in protest of wrongdoings against African Americans in the United States.
August 26, 2016
August 26, 2016 - Segment 1 - We begin the show with our regular weekly feature Tengella's Take with Center for Emerging Media Satirical Commentator Koli Tengella.
August 25, 2016
August 23, 2016 - Segment 1 - We begin the show with a commentary by poet and activist E. Ethelbert Miller on Ryan Lochte, an Olympian who lied about being robbed.
August 16, 2016
August 16. 2016 - Segment 2 - We discuss the discourse around race and racism at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and the media narrative around the athletes and the game
August 3, 2016
August 3, 2016 - Segment 5 - The Olympics begin this week, so we check in with Dave Zirin for a sports commentary on the Olympics in Rio and Basketball Players in the Movement for Black Lives.
June 21, 2016
June 20, 2016 - Segment 3 - Last night was game 7 of the NBA finals, and we check in with Alejandro "Ali" Danois, Tariq Touré, and Andre Melton for their input and analysis.
June 8, 2016
June 6, 2016 - Segment 1 - We begin the show with a tribute to and remembrance of the life of the great Muhammad Ali, who died this weekend at the age of 74.
May 24, 2016
May 23, 2016 - Segment 4 - We host a Sports Roundtable, checking in on the NBA Finals and the Preakness, with: Andre Melton, co-host of The Flex Zone and board operator at WEAA; and Demarus Dye, sports analyst on The Flex Zone.
February 8, 2016
February 5, 2016 - Segment 1 - We host 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.
February 3, 2016
February 3, 2016 - Segment 3 - With Super Bowl 50 happening this Sunday, we convene a sports roundtable on the big game, Florida Panthers Quarterback Cam Newton, and more.
November 12, 2015
November 10, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today we discuss the resignation of University of Missouri's president in the midst of campus protests over the school's handling of racial incidents. We are joined by Dave Zirin, Host of The Edge of Sports Radio and Sports Editor for The Nation.
August 28, 2015
August 28, 2015 - Segment 1 - We begin the show with 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.
July 17, 2015
July 14, 2015 - Segment 4 - In light of Serena Williams' fourth consecutive Grand Slam win at Wimbledon on Saturday, we turn to the topic of women in sports.
June 9, 2015
June 2, 2015 - Segment 3 - Kavitha Davidson, Bloomberg View Sports Columnist joins us for a commentary on the controversy over FIFA, the world soccer governing body, and the Olympics.
June 4, 2015
May 29, 2015 - Segment 2 - It's a new edition of our weekly feature, Tengella's Take, when actor, educator, and activist Koli Tengella offers his thoughts on our world today.
May 15, 2015
May 12, 2015 - Segment 3 - We discuss the Orioles and some of the signs held by the team's fans that mocked the Black Lives Matter movement and protests for justice for Freddie Gray with Milton Kent.
April 30, 2015
April 30, 2015 - Segment 2 - We check in with spokespersons from the Ujima People's Progress Party, continue our conversations and analysis of the ongoing protests in Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray and get a special report on the historic empty-stadium Orioles game last night.
April 10, 2015
April 9, 2015 - Segment 4 - Marc speaks with writer and director Sheldon Candis, who talks about his upcoming documentary on what may have been the greatest high school basketball team ever, Baltimore's own '81-'83 Dunbar Poets.
April 8, 2015
April 8, 2015 - Segment 4 - We close out the show with our regular feature City Paper This Week with Anna Walsh, Eats and Drinks Editor for the Baltimore City Paper.
February 4, 2015
February 4, 2015 - Segment 4 - We speak with The Nation's Sports Editor Dave Zirin about his article The Conspiracy Theory Surrounding The Seahawks' Last Play.
January 15, 2015
January 14, 2015 - Segment 3 - Marc is joined by journalist and lecturer Milton Kent to discuss the latest news and noteworthy events in the world of sports.
January 2, 2015
December 23, 2014 - Segment 2 - Center Stage Artistic Kwame Kewi-Armah joins us in-studio to talk about the upcoming production of playwright Kemp Powers historic dramatization, One Night in Miami.
October 13, 2014
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.
September 12, 2014
September 10, 2014 - Segment 2 - We examine the issue of domestic violence, in the wake of the events surrounding the video released of Ravens player Ray Rice assaulting his then-fiance Janay Palmer and Rice's subsequent indefinite suspension from the team. We will talk about the NFL response, Keith Olbermann's call for Ravens leadership to resign, Janay Palmer Rice's statement, and other pieces of this complex story.
September 8, 2014
September 8, 2014 - Segment 3 - In light of recent news stories concerning NFL players, we turn to the topic of racial and gender issues in the NFL with Dave Zirin, Sports Editor for The Nation magazine.
September 3, 2014
September 2, 2014 - Segment 2 - We look at some of the latest cultural news, including the incarceration of a Dorchester County teacher for his science fiction publications, the leak of nude photos of celebrities, and the cutting of Michael Sam, the first openly gay player in the NFL.
September 2, 2014
August 27, 2014 - Segment 2 - In light of the Jackie Robinson West Little League team from Chicago making it to the Little League World Series - the first all African American team to become U.S. champions in over thirty years - we take a look at African Americans in baseball with
June 23, 2014
June 23, 2014 - Segment 3 - We turn to the ongoing controversy over the name of the Washington NFL team, in light of last week's cancellation of the team's trademark registration by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. In a 99-page decision, the Board said the team's name and logo are disparaging to Native Americans.
June 11, 2014
June 11, 2014 - Segment 2 - David Zirin, Sports Editor for The Nation magazine and host of the Edge of Sports Radio, joins us to talk about the World Cup in Brazil and accompanying protests. He is the author of the book Brazil's Dance with the Devil: The World Cup, the Olympics, and the Struggle for Democracy.
May 28, 2014
May 28, 2014 - Segment 3 - David Zirin, Sports Editor for The Nation magazine, joins us to talk about his book Brazil's Dance with the Devil: The World Cup, the Olympics, and the Struggle for Democracy. Zirin will be speaking at Red Emma's on Thursday evening.
May 14, 2014
May 14, 2014 - Segment 4 - We look at the career and life of Michael Sam, who last weekend became the first openly gay player to be drafted into the NFL. The airwaves have been buzzing with controversy over his reaction to the news: a televised kiss between him and his boyfriend.
May 1, 2014
April 30, 2014 - Segment 2 - We discuss the outrage surrounding Los Angeles Clipper's owner Donald Sterling. Today, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver banned Sterling for life for making racist comments in a recorded conversation, and fined him $2.5 million. It is anticipated that Sterling will be removed from the league.
April 28, 2014
April 28, 2014 - Segment 4 - We discuss Clippers' owner Donald Sterling's racist statements about African Americans, released last Friday.
April 4, 2014
April 4, 2014 - Segment 5 - The hosts of WEAA's newest show, The Blacktop Xchange Sports Report, which airs every Sunday night at 7:00 PM, join us for a sports roundtable. We're joined by Jerry Bembry, David Steele, and Ali Danois.