The Marc Steiner Show

In our first hour, Marc talks with cartoonist-reporter Joe Sacco. His most recent book, Footnotes in Gaza, tries to get to the heart of a tragic incident in 1956 in the Gaza Strip in which 111 Palestinians were shot by Israeli soldiers.

Author Jerald Walker joined Marc for the second hour of today’s show.  In his memoir, Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption,Walker tells the story of his childhood in the projects of Chicago, turning to drugs and violence, and how he left that life behind and be

The election of Barack Obama brought to light a divide between the black
electorate and much of the older generation of prominent black
leaders.  While the overwhelming majority of black voters backed Obama,
many of the civil-rights era leaders initially endorsed Hillary Clinton.

We're joined by Howell S. Baum, author of the new book Brown in Baltimore: School Desegregation and the Limits of Liberalism.  Why has segregation continued in Baltimore's schools over fifty-five years after legal school segregation was outlawed?

Historian Nell Irvin Painter joins us to talk about her recent book, The History of White People.
Ranging from a discussion of Caesar's descriptions of outlying tribes
in ancient Europe to a look at present-day America, the book takes a

During the first segment we are joined by Greg Epstein,
Humanist Chaplain of Harvard University and author of Good Without God:
What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe. He talks about atheism,
religion and ethics.

 

We open today's show with this week's installment of Your Money Matters. Today, we talk refinancing with Kathy Brown. 

Today Frances Moore Lappe', co-founder of the Small Planet Institute"Living Democracy" advocate and author of 18 books which include the bestseller Diet For A Small Planet,  joins us and talks about her new book Getting