July 24, 2012
Join us for a discussion with astrophysicist and Director of the Hayden Planetarium Neil deGrasse Tyson on his new book, Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier.
July 24, 2012
For someone born in 1879, Margaret Sanger has been making a lot of headlines recently. As a pioneer of the movement to make birth control legal and accessible, and the founder of the organization that became Planned Parenthood, Sanger's work has been thrust into the limelight as the modern fight over birth control and abortion access heats up.
July 24, 2012
Will Allen is a native of Rockville, Maryland, where he grew up on a small farm. After a career in the NBA, Allen returned to agriculture, but not by heading back to his family farm. Instead he's at the forefront of a new movement in urban agriculture called vertical farming, where levels of plants and aquaculture are stacked to maximize productivity on small parcels of inner city land.
July 24, 2012
July 24, 2012
This month marks what would have been legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie's 100th birthday.
July 24, 2012
Award-winning playwright and rapper Will Power, a pioneer of hip-hop theatre, joins us to discuss his work, including his play Fetch Clay, Make Man.
July 23, 2012
Author Rebecca Walker, who edited the new book Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness, joins us to discuss the definition of coolness within African American culture.
July 23, 2012
Author Lawrence P. Jackson joins us to discuss the journey he took through his family's history, and the history of African Americans descended from slaves, which he documents in his new book My Father's Name: A Black Virginia Family After the Civil War.
July 19, 2012
Chris Hedges joins us to discuss his latest book, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt. Together with comic artist Joe Sacco, Hedges traveled to the most economically depressed area
July 19, 2012
This week on Sound Bites on Delmarva, we discuss the controversies surrounding raw milk.
July 18, 2012
Producers Mark Gunnery and Bobby Holmes covered the Green Party national convention in Baltimore. This Segment includes excerpts from Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein's acceptance speech and interviews with Stein's campaign manager Ben Manski, Baltimore Green Party chair Brian Bittner and 2010 Green Party Maryland gubernatorial candidate Maria Allwine.
July 18, 2012
Theresa Runstedtler, author of the new book Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner, joins us for an exploration of the life of the first African American World Heavyweight Champion of boxing, Jack Johnson.
July 18, 2012
In his latest book, Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence, author Alan Gilbert details the struggle for African-Americans to gain freedom by joining British imperialists during the Revolutionary War.
July 17, 2012
Join us for an Urbanite Radio story with Dario DiBattista, an Iraq War Veteran and author of the memoir Go Now, You Are Forgiven.
July 17, 2012
Author Rachel L. Swarns joins us to discuss her latest book, American Tapestry: The Black, White and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama. Rachel will be speaking at the Enoch Pratt Library in Baltimore tomorrow, July 18th, at 6:30pm. Click here for more info.
July 17, 2012
We are joined by Baltimore City Council members William Cole, Bill Henry, Nick Mosby and Mary Pat Clarke to discuss the recent Baltimore budget vote hearing and the preliminary vote hearing to audit city agencies.
July 16, 2012
Here is our interview with Green Party 2012 Vice Presidential Candidate Cheri Honkala, which was taped at the Green Party Presidential Nominating Convention in Baltimore this weekend.
July 16, 2012
Join the conversation as Anthony McCarthy and Marc Steiner will turn to more of the latest news topics, both local and national.
July 16, 2012
Listen in as Mary Alice Ernish, founder of Audit Baltimore, joins us live from City Hall, where she will help us examine the City of Baltimore's financial auditing practices.
July 16, 2012
Anthony McCarthy joins us as a co-host as we look at why and how the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) scandal affects us.
July 12, 2012
Grass farmer Stephen Belkoff of Forever Endeavor Farm in Baldwin, MD joins us to talk about raising livestock and how government regulations affect small farms on this week’s episode of Sound Bites.
July 12, 2012
Former heroin addict, HIV survivor, treatment outreach worker for the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Bert Queen joins us to discuss her experiences and her work, along with independent producer and medical student Scott Goldberg, who produced a piece on Bert, "The Queen of East Baltimore," that we will hear duri
July 12, 2012
NAACP's 103rd annual convention is taking place in Houston, and Anthony McCarthy joins us for a live update from the convention.
July 12, 2012
The 2012 Green Party Presidential Nominating Convention is in Baltimore today through the weekend, and Green Party 2012 Presidential candidate Jill Stein joins the Steiner Show for an interview.
July 11, 2012
July 11, 2012
Listen in as we talk about Baltimore's Fraternal Order of Police issuing today a "Blueprint for Improved Policing
July 11, 2012
Do U.S. government agencies such as the NSA have the right to perform wiretapping without warrants?
July 10, 2012
This evening Meshelle the Indie Mom of Comedy joins us as a co-host and we take a look at the Langston Hughes Literary Forum and Book Fair, taking place in Baltimore tomorrow, with event organizer Lou Fields and Dr.
July 10, 2012
Listen in as we the discuss the Texas Voter ID law and issues of voter rights and voter disenfranchisement around the United States with Ari Berman, contributing writer for The Nation Magazine, Deborah Vagins of The American Civil Liberty Union and Rev.
July 10, 2012
Today, we discuss the Obama tax policy with Scott Klinger, Associate Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, Phil Kerpen, President of American Commitment and columnist for Fox News Opinion and Cynthia Gordy, Senior Political Correspondent for the
July 9, 2012
Join the Steiner Show as we return to the topic of Baltimore fire station closings, with:
Rick Hoffman, president of Baltimore Fire Fighters IAFF Local 734;
July 9, 2012
Did you know that people come from across the country to go fly fishing on Baltimore County's beautiful Gunpowder River?
In these hot summer months, though, the fly fishers have competition with others trying to enjoy the river by "tubing" down it. Some say the tubers are destroying the peace and quiet, as well as the environment.
July 9, 2012
Listen in for a discussion of Campaign Finance Reform. Joining us are:
Trae Lewis, President of the Baltimore Area Young Republicans;
and Lindsay Mark Lewis, Executive Director of the Progressive Policy Institute.
July 5, 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.
July 5, 2012
After Baltimore's City Council voted down a proposed charter amendment that would have required that each city agency be audited every two years this week, we will discuss said charter admendments to reform Baltimore City with City Councilman Bill Henry of District 4 and writer
July 5, 2012
Eureka! Today on the Steiner Show, we will focus on the latest discovery of Higgs Boson, and how the particle answers questions on how the universe was created.
July 3, 2012
Bruce Jacobs, author of Race Manners, will join us to discuss race relations in the 21st Century.
July 3, 2012
Join us as we talk about the disbandment of three Baltimore City fire companies with Mark Reutter from the Baltimore Brew and Baltimore City Fire Department Chief James Clack.
July 3, 2012
Listen in as we will be joined by investigative journalist Katherine Eban and deputy Managing Editor of the National Review Robert Verbruggen to discuss Operation: Fast and Furious, an ATF investigation that allowed gun smuggler
July 3, 2012
Our guest this hour is author, innovator, former Obama White House advisor, and activist Van Jones. Jones is an internationally renowned human rights and clean energy advocate, and is co-founder of the Rebuild the Dream campaign, a platform for ways that regular people can help transform the U.S. economy.
July 3, 2012
Olympian and human rights activist John Carlos joins us at 5pm along with Dave Zirin, co-author of The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That C
July 3, 2012
If you live in Baltimore, do you have electricity? In the wake of Friday night's violent thunderstorm, many Baltimore area residents and businesses remain without power, and trees still block major roadways.
July 3, 2012
If you live in the Baltimore area, you most likely heard about the tragedy that occurred a couple weeks ago, when an off-duty Baltimore County police officer strangled to death a Randallstown teenager, Christopher Brown.
June 28, 2012
Join us for another Urbanite Story on Soccer Without Borders, a program that brings together youth from all over the world living in Baltimore to play soccer. We're joined by Program Director and 2011-2012 OSI Fellow Jill Pardini and Soccer Without Borders participants Warshan Hussin, Birendra Rai, and Admon Pasingda.
June 28, 2012
Today on the Steiner Show, we discuss today's Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act, also known as the Health Care Bill, with Maryland State Director of Americans for Prosperity Dave Schwartz, President of Maryland Healthcare for All
June 28, 2012
This week on Sound Bites on Delmarva, we’re joined by legislators from Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia to talk about the 2012 Farm Bill.
June 27, 2012
Baltimore City Council members Carl Stokes of District 12 and Helen Holton of District 8 join the Marc Steiner Show to talk about the City's budget hearing vote.
June 27, 2012
Listen in as "Moneywise" host Kelvin Boston talks about his Moneywise Empowerment tour.
June 27, 2012
Join us as attorney Ed Smith weighs in on the sentencing of his client Julius Henson, who was found guilty of sending robocalls without the proper campaign attribution in last year's gubernatorial race.
June 27, 2012
Join us as we discuss the sentencing in the Werdersheim case with Rabbi Mitchell Wolhberg of Beth Tfiloh and attorney J. Wyndal Gordon.