August 29, 2012
August 30, 2012 - Hour 1 - This week on Beyond the Spin, we'll hear perspectives on the 2012 Republican National Convention as it is taking place, both from reporters inside of the convention and outside observers.
August 29, 2012
A recent report showed that suicides among our active duty troops doubled in one month, with 12 suicides in June and 26 in July. Every 36 hours a veteran from Iraq or Afganistan kills themselves. Eighteen veterans from all wars commit suicide each day.
August 29, 2012
We are joined in our first hour by Baltimore City Schools CEO, Dr. Andrés Alonso. He gives us an update on the state of Baltimore's schools and what we should expect out of this school year.
August 28, 2012
In the aftermath of the shooting at Perry Hall High School, we take a look at violence in our schools and what can we do about it. We are joined by:
August 28, 2012
DeWayne Wickham, USA Today columnist and Morgan State University Chair of the Department of Communication Studies, joins us for a discussion on the RNC, the Obama administration and the 2012 General Election.
August 28, 2012
Kalima Young, project coordinator of Baltimore Art + Justice Project (BAJP) talks about how BAJP is marrying the ideas and initiatives of Baltimore artists and activists for social justice on this episode of Cultural Crossroads with host Lea Gilmore.
August 28, 2012
CEM's Cultural Editor Lea Gilmore co-hosts the debut of Cultural Crossroads, a segment that interwines the arts and culture with social justice platforms.
August 27, 2012
We close out our show with Jack Andraka, a Crownsville teen who won the 2012 Intel Science Fair Grand Prize for developing a groundbreaking method
August 27, 2012
Although the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida was postponed until tomorrow because of the storm, we look to people on the ground for an idea of what to expect. We speak with Green Party Vice-Presidential nominee Cheri Honkala and former Maryland Governor Bob Ehrlich.
August 27, 2012
Soon-to-be GOP presidential-nominee Mitt Romney caused quite a stir with his "birther" joke this past weekend. Some critics accused him of perpetuating racist rhetoric in the general election.
August 27, 2012
August 23, 2012
We listen back to a town hall meeting that happened last night on land use planning in Baltimore County. We discuss water quality, the environment, food security, traffic congestion, and development in northern Baltimore County and how it affects Baltimore City and the entire metropolitan region.
August 23, 2012
August 23, 2012 - Segment 1 - On Beyond the Spin, our new weekly series on the 2012 elections, we discuss how Presidential candidates are, or aren’t, addressing the issue of poverty, and why it matters.
August 22, 2012
Screenwriter Lucy Alibar discusses her film "Beasts of the Southern Wild," the story of a young girl who tries to reunite with her lost mother as a race of prehistoric beasts attempt to take over the planet.
August 22, 2012
David Kirby, author of "Death at Seaworld," talks about the troubling aspects of keeping killer whales in captivity for entertainment.
August 22, 2012
We speak to organic grain farmers Bill and Susanne Mason about their transition from conventional to organic farming. Then we talk to Rebecca Klein, director of the Public Health and Agricultural Policy Project at the Center for a Livable Future at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, about the Farm Bill and its status in Congress.
August 21, 2012
We will go inside the controversy surrounding the NBC reality show, 'Stars Earn Stripes'.
August 21, 2012
After massive lay-offs, remaining Sparrows Point Steel Mill workers could lose their benefits.
August 21, 2012
Last month was the hottest July on record, Lauren Morello, a climate reporter for ClimateWire whose work has been featured in the Scientific American Journal, joins us for a discussion on climate change
August 20, 2012
In the second hour, in the wake of the killing of a schizophrenic homeless man this past weekend, we turn to the topic of police-involved shootings in Baltimore. Our guests will be:
August 20, 2012
We host a roundtable discussion on the presidential election. Panelists include:
August 16, 2012
Our Sound Bites series continues with an exploration of Baltimore's blossoming urban farming movement.
August 16, 2012
August 16, 2012 - Hour 1 - This week, we focus on state Voter ID laws that have led to legal challenges and raised concerns about voter disenfranchisement, featuring interviews from Arizona, Pennsylvania, California, Wisconsin, and Alabama.
August 15, 2012
The 2012 National Femme Conference, an bi-annual event, will be held in Baltimore this weekend. Co-chair for Media, Aries Hines, a writer and filmmaker, takes us inside the conference.
August 15, 2012
We discuss the Maryland Dream Act, which would authorize in-state tuition benefits at local community colleges for qualifying children of undocumented immigrants.
August 15, 2012
Following his selection as the presumptive GOP vice-presidential candidate, Congressman Paul Ryan came under fire for his controversial Medicare plan. Health care policy experts
August 14, 2012
We are joined by a Sudanese artist living in Baltimore, Mosno Al-Moseeki, who started an online campaign to bring coverage to the little-reported protests that started in Sudan in the middle of June as a reaction to price increases and austerity measures taken by the Sudanese government.
August 14, 2012
Baltimore has been selected as the first of 175 seaports to commemorate in North America, South America, and the Caribbean in remembrance of the enslaved Africans who died in the Middle Passage. The commemoration will take place at 6am and 7:15am on Thursday, August 23rd at the Broadway Pier in Fells Point.
August 14, 2012
With reports today that the Syrian regime may be crumbling from the inside after months of violence and human rights abuses, we discuss Syria.
August 13, 2012
We discuss the news coming out of the Maryland special session on gaming in Annapolis with a collection of Maryland senators after the Senate's 28-14 vote. Discussing the complexities of the session and the outcome of the senate vote are:
August 13, 2012
We shift into the realm of politics to take a look at Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's vice presidential pick, Paul Ryan. We will be joined by:
August 13, 2012
We revisit the 2012 Olympic Games following yesterday's closing ceremony. Joining us to discuss the game's powerful moments are:
August 9, 2012
Listen in as we ask if a commonly used herbicide causes cancer? Biologist Tyrone Hayes and farmer Mark Fuchs, from New Hope Farm in Denton, MD, join us to offer opposing viewpoints on the herbicide atrazine.
August 9, 2012
August 9, 2012 - Segment 1 - This week, we’ll be talking about the influence of money on the 2012 elections, and American politics in general, today.
August 8, 2012
We look at the ways Maryland residents are denied mental health care they're entitled to through private insurance.
August 8, 2012
Freeman Hrabowski, president of University of Maryland Baltimore County, joins us to talk about his appointment by President Obama to the newly formed Office of African-American Education.
August 8, 2012
Maryland State Senators and Delegates join us to speak about the state's special session on the expansion of gambling. Our guests are
- Senator Ed Rielly
- Delegate Jolene Ivey
- Delegate Ron George
- Delegate Shawn Tarrant
August 7, 2012
We focus on Baltimore with a story about a West Baltimore family's eviction that resulted from a zero-tolerance policy for subsidized homes. Sherman and Jean Thomas' sons have drug-related criminal records and used their parents' address and their own, prompting the eviction. To discuss the situation, this policy, and its impact on Baltimore communities, we're joined by:
August 7, 2012
We discuss one of the social costs of gambling - addiction. In preparation for Thursday's special session in Annapolis on gaming, we are joined by
August 6, 2012
We will discuss the tragic shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin that left six people dead and its implications for the Sikh community, gun control regulations, and violence in America. We will be joined by
August 6, 2012
We will discuss the Baltimore City Council upcoming audit vote to decide whether city agencies should be regularly audited. We will be joined by:
August 2, 2012
We discuss presidential candidate Mitt Romney's visit to the Middle East and what we learned about his ideas on foreign policy from his controversial remarks about Palestinians. We discuss this topic with:
August 2, 2012
We discuss the state of policing in Baltimore after the retirement of now former Commissioner Frederick Bealefeld this week. A new Commissioner has yet to be named, but we take a look back at Bealefeld's tenure and discuss ideas for how our guests would like to see the Baltimore Police Department evolve.
We are joined in the studio by:
August 2, 2012
With the second special session this year slated to start next week, there are many perspectives on how the proposed casino at National Harbor could help or hurt communities. We're joined in our first hour by:
August 1, 2012
In this segment, we discuss the dirt bike riders in Baltimore. We speak
with Lotfy Nathan, Director and Producer of Twelve O'Clock In Baltimore,
an upcoming documentary about dirt bike riding in Baltimore, and dirt bike riders Sconey and Hoon.
August 1, 2012
We discuss the controversy surrounding Chick-Fil-A's stance against gay marriage and the boycott it has sparked.
August 1, 2012
In our first segment, we discuss the current labor dispute happening at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Baltimore, where workers are attempting to organize with union UNITE HERE. We'll listen back to interviews with the general manager of Hyatt as well as a union representative and hotel workers.
July 30, 2012
We're joined by Arthur Magida, whose latest book is The Nazi Séance: The Strange Story of the Jewish Psychic in Hitler's Circle. The book follows Erik Jan Hanussen, a famous Jewish mind reader who advised leading Nazi figures, and Hitler himself, in the lead-up to World War II.
July 30, 2012
This hour we discuss the dynamics of gender. Are men and women innately different or do we conform to societal expectations?
July 30, 2012
David Harvey, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, joins us to talk about his new book "Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution." He discusses the role of cities in the current global uprisings, historical precedents like the Paris Commune, and social movements in Baltimore.