Urbanite

If you live in Baltimore, you've seen groups of dirt bikers weaving through traffic, doing wheelies through the city streets.  While riding dirt bikes in the city has been outlawed, one youth advocate sees them as a vital way of reaching young people and channeling their energy into positive outlets.

We're joined by Shawna Murray, Deverick Murray, and Dayvon Love from Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle to discuss their ideas for reforming education and increasing community power in Baltimore.

For this Urbanite Radio Story we're joined by John Marsh, Assistant Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University  and author of the new book Class Dismissed: Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way Out of Inequality.

If you live in Baltimore, you've seen groups of dirt bikers weaving through traffic, doing wheelies through the city streets.  While riding dirt bikes in the city has been outlawed, one youth advocate sees them as a vital way of reaching young people and channeling their energy into positive outlets.

As cleanup efforts continue in the Chesapeake Bay and Inner Harbor, we take a look at what is being done in Baltimore to minimize water pollution.  Our guests are Kimberly Burgess, Division Chief of the Baltimore Department of Public Works' Surface Managament Division and Bill Stack, Deputy Director of Programs for the Center for Watershed Protection.

Shawn Spence is a comedienne, writer, wife, and mother of five children.  She joins us this hour to discuss family, community, education, passing along values, and more.

On today's show, we're joined by a writer and a sociologist to discuss the new way that young people in America define family.   Ethan Watters is the author of  Urban Tribes: Are Friends the New Family? He argues that 20-somethings form friendships and networks that in many ways fill the roll that family did for earlier generations.

Join us for another Urbanite Radio Story, as two Baltimore artists join us to discuss what it means, both personally and politically, to be transgender.