November 5, 2012
It's Monday, and co-host Anthony McCarthy will be joining me for tonight's show!
November 1, 2012
November 1, 2012 – Hour 2 - Beyond the Spin discusses a campaign to defeat a citizen-led ballot measure that would ban hydraulic fracturing or fracking within city limits. With Election Day coming up Tuesday, and early voting already underway, we'll also speak with community radio journalists from around the country.
November 1, 2012
Tonight we bring you timely conversations with the election just around the corner, and many important issues being decided locally and nationally.
October 31, 2012
We discuss ballot Question M, which deals with audits of city agencies. We'll be joined by Mary Ernish, founder of Audit Baltimore, and Baltimore City Councilpeople Rikki Spector and Carl Stokes.
October 31, 2012
We discuss Question K which, if passed, would change Baltimore City Mayoral and City Council elections so that they would fall on years when presidential elections occur. We'll be joined by Hassan Giordano and Delegate Curt Anderson.
October 31, 2012
We're joined by Armstead B. Crawley Jones, Sr., the Election Director of the Baltimore City Board of Election for an update on early voting in light of the recent storm.
October 31, 2012
We discuss the new performance piece "Red Flags." We're joined by the three creators/performers of the piece: spoken-word artist/musician LOVE the poet (aka Michelle Antoinette Nelson), filmmaker/theater director Bashi Rose, and dancer/choreographer Vincent Thomas. "Red Flags" runs at the Arena Players until November 4.
October 30, 2012
First we hear from Natasha Dow Schüll, author of Addiction By Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas.
October 30, 2012
We hear from one of the great educational thinkers of our time, Paul Tough.
October 30, 2012
Tonight we debate over whether climate change has been a factor in creating Hurricane Sandy and other "monster storms." Joining us is:
October 29, 2012
October 29, 2012 - Hour 1 - Listen to our latest segment of Beyond the Spin, our weekly national news round table! This week we take a look at a number of ballot referendums and election issues around the country.
October 25, 2012
This week on Sound Bites, we recognize the 40th Anniversary of the Clean Water Act. We think about its legacy, and discuss the challenges that still remain for our future.
October 25, 2012
Dr. Lester Spence, Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University, joins us tonight as a co-host on the show.
October 25, 2012
Dr. Lester Spence, Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University, joins us tonight as a co-host on the show.
October 24, 2012
October 24, 2012
We then move to the realm of Theatre, as we are joined by Tony Award-winning actress and director Trezana Beverley.
October 24, 2012
We talk with author Amy Nathan about her new book on the history of the movement to desegregate Gwynn Oak Amusement Park, Round and Round Together: Taking a Merry-Go-Round Ride Into the Civil Rights Movement.
October 23, 2012
Tonight Dr. Ray Winbush, Director of the Institute for Urban Research at Morgan State University, joins us for both hours of our show, to help wrestle with today's topics.
We spend time analyzing last night's Presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney. We are joined in-studio by:
October 23, 2012
Tonight Dr. Ray Winbush, Director of the Institute for Urban Research at Morgan State University, joins us for both hours of our show, to help wrestle with today's topics.
October 22, 2012
New York Times reporter and author Rachel Swarns joins us to talk about her latest book American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama.
October 22, 2012
Ben Vinson, Vice Dean for Centers & Interdepartmental Programs and Graduate Education at Johns Hopkins University and Joaneath Spicer, The James A.
October 22, 2012
Darius Wilmore, co-founder of Taharka Brothers Ice Cream will be joining us to talk about "THE BIG PAYBACK 2," a forum discussion on Haiti direct trade and Globetrekers, a program that offers American high school students the opportunity to travel abroad and study culture and language.
October 22, 2012
On November 6 Baltimore City voters will vote on Question K, a ballot initiative that could adjust Baltimore City's election cycle. Doc Cheatham, president of the National Action Network Baltimore chapter will talk about the League of Women Voters forum addressing the ballot question.
October 18, 2012
We continue our Sound Bites on Delmarva series with another discussion of a closely-watched trial happening right now in Baltimore. The Waterkeeper Alliance brought a suit against an Eastern Shore poultry farm and the company they farm for, Perdue.
October 18, 2012
October 18, 2012 – Hour 1 - Today we share another episode of Beyond the Spin, a weekly show bringing community radio journalists from around the United States together to discuss the issues that are important to our communities during the 2012 election season.
October 17, 2012
Who do you think won last night's Presidential debate? We close out the show with a roundtable discussion on the debate. Our guests will include:
October 17, 2012
Audits of the Baltimore City Public Schools (BCPS) have revealed issues with bookkeeping, debt collection, and millions of unaccounted-for dollars in overtime and overpayment to employees and contractors.
October 17, 2012
Ben Jealous, President and CEO of the NAACP, joins us for a short conversation on marriage equality, the DREAM Act, and other issues in the upcoming election.
October 16, 2012
We will discuss what new audits uncovered about the Baltimore City Public School System with Carl Stokes, Baltimore City Councilman for the 12th District, Baltimore Sun education reporter Erica Green, clergy co-chairs Rev. Glenna Reed Huber and Rev.
October 16, 2012
In light of Walmart strikes across the country we will hear from Julianne Hing, who has been covering this for Colorlines, and Cynthia Murray, who has been a Walmart associate for over a decade and is currently on strike.
October 16, 2012
On November 6, Maryland voters will make a decision on hotly contested referendums including Question 6, a ballot initiative which could determine the fate of same sex marriage in Maryland. Our panel of local pastors will dissect the pros and cons of this landmark legislation.
We will be joined by:
October 15, 2012
October 15, 2012
October 15, 2012
We discuss the Vice Presidential debate between Vice President Joe Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan that took place Thursday. Some are calling it a win for Biden and some are calling it Ryan's debate, while other media outlets declared it a tie.
October 15, 2012
October 15, 2012
We remember the legacy of Clarence Mitchell III, a groundbreaking public servant who passed away Thursday at the age of 72. Michael Mitchell Jr. joins us for the conversation.
October 11, 2012
This week on Sound Bites, a show about the future of our food system, we talk to a diverse panel of farmers and experts about the Farm Bill, what it means now that the bill was not passed. The Senate voted on and passed the Farm Bill, but the U.S. House of Representatives' bill failed to reach the House floor.
October 11, 2012
October 11, 2012 - Hour 1 - This week on Beyond the Spin, with the 2012 presidential election less than one month away, we'll be discussing election issues including the exclusion of 3rd party candidates from the debates, the ongoing legal battles over voter ID laws in states around the country, and what the recent news about dropping unemployment in the US could mean for the election.
October 10, 2012
This is part one of our two hour special featuring a debate that Marc moderated last evening at Morgan State University. Hosted by the League of Women Voters of Baltimore, the debate focused on Maryland Ballot Questions 4 and 6, the Dream Act and the Marriage Equality Act.
October 10, 2012
This is part one of our two hour special featuring a debate that Marc moderated last evening at Morgan State University. Hosted by the League of Women Voters of Baltimore, the debate focused on Maryland Ballot Questions 4 and 6, the Dream Act and the Marriage Equality Act.
October 9, 2012
We speak to activist and writer Jerry Mander. Mander is the author, most recently, of The Capitalism Papers, about the social and environmental problems caused by capitalism.
October 9, 2012
We discuss racial profiling in Baltimore with citizens and activists Sonnie Jones and Ronald Owens-Bey, who want to see city-specific legislation banning racial profiling similar to what Ben Cardin has proposed on a national level. We also speak with Baltimore City Councilman Brandon Scott.
October 8, 2012
Our roundtable of panelists will analyze the latest headlines in Baltimore City. Our roundtable will include:
October 8, 2012
Actress and activist Sonja Sohn of the Wire, and Founder and CEO of Rewired for Change; and LaMarr Darnell Shields, co-founder of the Urban Leadership Institute and Founder of the Paul Robeson Academic International School of Excellence, or PRAISE Academy, join us in studio to discuss
October 8, 2012
Colorlines writer Imara Jones and Crystal Wright, publisher of conservativeblackchick.com join us for a roundtable discussion on national election politics.
October 8, 2012
You may remember the film, Daughters of the Dust, about the Geechee (sometimes called Gullah) people, Creole-speaking descendents of West African slaves who have lived on Sapelo Island off the coast of Georgia for the past 200 years.
October 4, 2012
We present a new episode of Sound Bites, a show about the future of our food system. We take an in-depth look at one story in particular, Nick's Organic Farm in both Potomac and Frederick, MD. Farmer Nick Maravell's Potomac location is in jeopardy because of a Montgomery County plan to develop the land he has rented for the past 32 years into soccer fields. That plan is currently on a hold and pending trial.
October 4, 2012
October 4, 2012 - Hour 1 - On this episode of Beyond The Spin, we analyze the first presidential debate that took place last night in Colorado. We are joined by Michael Chmielewski, Arnold Prehn, Heather Niday, Karen Brown and Elizabeth DiNovella.
October 3, 2012
October 3, 2012
Listen to our discussion about the new documentary Hoodwinked, directed by filmmaker Janks Morton. Hoodwinked explores black stereotypes in the media and soc