The World That Brought Us Freddie Gray Reflections on the uprising and an action plan for the future.
The World That Brought Us Freddie Gray is a 5-part radio documentary series produced by the Center for Emerging Media in collaboration with students at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), the UMBC American Studies Department, and Baltimore Traces. In the Spring 2016 Semester, students in the UMBC American Studies Class “Radio In American Culture” taught by Marc Steiner and Stefanie Mavronis worked to produce a series highlighting the voices of residents of Baltimore City who were all in one way or another affected by the 2015 death of Freddie Gray and the Baltimore Uprising that followed.
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They Fought Too Remembering Maryland’s Civil Rights Pioneers
The history books are full of civil rights heroes who were from Maryland. Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court Justice, was from Maryland, as was Frederick Douglass.
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The Wire Series Wrap-up
On Sunday, March 9, 2008, HBO aired the series finale of the hit television drama The Wire. The show, set in Baltimore Maryland, was an in-depth look at the people who live in urban American centers. The show focused on port workers, politicians, journalists, drug dealers, drug addicts, and more, and presented these people and their struggles in all their honest complexity. The show became known for its refusal to submit to stereotype. Even the most murderous of characters ranged from the horrid to the humble, to the honorable. Some, even admirable.
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Beyond the Spin Beyond the Spin brings together community radio journalists from across the nation in on-air conversations on topics that are important to all of us, from the elections to education to the environment.
Beyond the Spin is more than a talking-head roundtable discussion – it actually links and interweaves the stories and voices of the diverse cultures that comprise our national landscape.
We go beyond the headlines, beyond the horse race, and beyond the spin, to get to the heart of the issues that have the most impact on all of our lives. Beyond the Spin features the interests and opinions of communities that are often left out of the national discourse.
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Baltimore Uprising One Year Later
Reflections on the uprising and an action plan for the future.
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Just Words The Stories of Working People in Our Community
The stories of former gang members and convicts, the struggles of low wage workers and recovering addicts, the rural homeless and inner city mothers-these voices, often ignored by traditional mass media, tell their own stories, in their own words, in Just Words, the 55 part documentary feature series.
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Sound Bites A series on the history and challenges of the current food system, and how to envision transforming it into one that is healthier for all people and the environment. Sound Bites segments feature interviews with farmers, students, community members, town hall participants and panelists, activists, writers and historians.
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Maryland’s Board of Public Works just approved nearly $50 million to buy slot machines for a soon-to-open casino in Cecil County. Comptroller Peter Franchot voted against the expenditure, and he joins us to discuss why he thinks the purchase is a bad use of state money.
