September 2, 2015
September 2, 2015 - Segment 4 - We close our show with our regular feature City Paper This Week, with Anna Walsh, City PaperManaging Editor and Eats & Drinks Editor.
September 2, 2015
September 2, 2015 - Segment 3 - We talk with rapper Kane Mayfield, who will be performing Friday September 4th, at the Metro Gallery in Baltimore.
September 2, 2015
September 2, 2015 - Segment 2 - We discuss Education and Testing, with NPR's lead education blogger Anya Kamenetz.
September 2, 2015
September 2, 2015 - Segment 1 - We begin our show with a discussion about the Black Lives Matter movement and the Civil Rights Movement: differences, tensions, and connections. Our panel of guests will be responding in part to an op-ed in the Washington Post last week, "I was a civil rights activist in the 1960s. But it's hard for me to get behind Black Lives Matter."
September 1, 2015
September 1, 2015 - Segment 4 - We speak with author and filmmaker D Watkins about his new book The Beast Side: Living and Dying While Black in America.
September 1, 2015
September 1, 2015 - Segment 3 - Zoe Carpenter, Assistant Washington Editor for The Nation, joins us to offer a commentary on the national elections.
September 1, 2015
September 1, 2015 - Segment 2 - Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake joins us for a conversation on the state of the city.
September 1, 2015
September 1, 2015 - Segment 1 - On Wednesday, a hearing will be held to determine certain legal issues in the Freddie Gray case, such as a change of venue and whether to remove Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby from the prosecution. We have an examination and analysis of these issues.
August 31, 2015
August 31, 2015 - Hour 2 - On our Local News Roundtable we discuss the Freddie Gray trial, dirt bikes in the city, and beyond with Phil Train, Dr. Roni Ellington and Dr. Lawrence Brown.
August 31, 2015
August 31, 2015 - Hour 1 - We begin the week with a National News Roundtable. Our panel of guests discuss a range of national topics including the 2016 Presidential Election.
August 28, 2015
August 28, 2015 - Segment 2 - Listen to a special Marc Steiner Show / Center for Emerging Media presentation: 10 Years Since Hurricane Katrina. You will hear the diverse voices of a number of individuals from and/or living in the Crescent City, most of whom lived through the storm.
August 28, 2015
August 28, 2015 - Segment 1 - We begin the show with our weekly feature Tengella's Take with Koli Tengella. Koli is President of Tengella Edutainment, an instructor and creator of the Positive Social Change Performing Arts Program at Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts High School, and he was a 2010 Open Society Institute Fellow.
August 28, 2015
August 27, 2015 - Segment 2 - On the newest episode of our series about our food and our world, Sound Bites, we begin the hour with a report on the potential public health consequences of GMOs (genetically-modified organisms). Then, we turn to the state of oyster farming in our region as we discuss the challenges facing oyster farmers.
August 28, 2015
August 27, 2015 - Segment 1 - Boots Riley of the legendary hip hop group The Coup joins us to talk about hip hop, politics, and his cousin Carlos Riley, who was falsely accused of shooting a Durham police office.
August 28, 2015
August 26, 2015 - Segment 4 - We close out the show with our regular feature This Week in the City Paper, with Anna Walsh, Managing Editor and Eats and Drinks Editor for the Baltimore City Paper.
August 28, 2015
August 26, 2015 - Segment 3 - We have an update on a Charles Village institution, Sankofa African Bazaar. Sankofa owner KiKi Armstrong is preparing to retire and is seeking a future owner and is doing so with an essay contest.
August 28, 2015
August 26, 2015 - Segment 2 - We feature a very special Baltimore City boys school that is seeking enrollees: Benjamin Banneker Eubie Blake Arts and Sciences Academy, located in the old Winston Middle School building in Baltimore's Winston neighborhood. We speak with Banneker Principal Patrick McDonald.
August 28, 2015
August 26, 2015 - Segment 1 - Former Baltimore Mayor and current candidate for Mayor Sheila Dixon joins us to talk about her vision for our city.
August 27, 2015
August 25, 2015 - Segment 2 - We turn to zoning in Baltimore, as developers and community groups are pressuring the City Council to bring the first major rewrite to the Baltimore City zoning code since 1971.
August 27, 2015
August 25, 2015 - Segment 1 - We look at Baltimore's rising murder rate. Is there something going on particular to Baltimore or is this part of a national trend?
August 27, 2015
August 24, 2015 - Segment 2 - We host a local news roundtable and speak about State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby and the mayoral race in Baltimore.
August 27, 2015
August 24, 2015 - Segment 1 - We host a national news roundtable and speak about Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, and the 2016 Presidential elections.
August 21, 2015
August 21, 2015 - Segment 4 - We close out the show with a special archive edition of The Marc Steiner Show as we listen back to my 2010 interview with photographer Martha Cooper, best known for documenting the birth of hip hop culture in New York City in the 1970's and early 80's.
August 21, 2015
August 21, 2015 - Segment 3 - I talk with Native American author, historian, feminist, and self-described revolutionary Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, whose seminal book An Indigenous People's History of the United States was just released in paperback.
August 21, 2015
August 21, 2015 - Segment 2 - We are joined by stand-up comedian Hari Kondabolu, whose debut album is called Waiting for 2042. Kondabolu will perform at the Creative Alliance on Sunday.
August 21, 2015
August 21, 2015 - Segment 1 - We begin the show with our usual weekly feature, Tengella's Take with Koli Tengella. Koli is President of Tengella Edutainment, and an instructor and creator of the positive social change performing arts program at Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts High School.
August 20, 2015
August 20, 2015 - Segment 2 - In our latest episode of Sound Bites, our series on our food and our world, we are joined by Natasha Bowens, a beginning farmer and community grower in Western Maryland, who wrote the book "The Color of Food: Stories of Race, Resilience and Farming."
August 20, 2015
August 20, 2015 - Segment 1 - With our guest host for the first hour, Dr. Lawrence Brown, we remember longtime Civil Rights leader Julian Bond, who died Sunday, and look back at 1965 and 1966, which were critical years of the movement.
August 19, 2015
August 19, 2015 - Segment 4 - We close with our feature 'City Paper This Week,' with Anna Walsh, Managing Editor and Eats and Drinks Editor for the Baltimore City Paper.
August 19, 2015
August 19, 2015 - Segment 3 - We look at Lawrence Burney's article in City Paper, "Race and Music in Baltimore: Baltimore musicians of color talk about race in the music scene."
August 19, 2015
August 19, 2015 - Segment 2 - Stay tuned for a discussion of Straight Outta Compton, the biographical film released last weekend about the hip hop group N.W.A. in the 1980s and 1990s.
August 19, 2015
August 19, 2015 - Segment 1 - We begin the show with a roundtable discussion on the Black Lives Matter movement, Bernie Sanders, and the Presidential Election.
August 18, 2015
August 18, 2015 - Segment 3 - We close out the show with a preview of a special musical event, happening August 29: An Die Musik Presents Sunny Cowell CD Release Concert & Party.
August 18, 2015
August 18, 2015 - Segment 2 - We address the upsurge in violence in Baltimore and Governor Hogan's closing of the Baltimore City Detention Center with a roundtable of guests.
August 18, 2015
August 18, 2015 - Segment 1 - We begin our show with an International Roundtable on the Middle East, focusing on Iran and Turkey.
August 17, 2015
August 17, 2015 - Segment 2 - We bring the discussion home with a Local News Roundtable, topics to include: Rawlings-Blake v. Dixon for Mayor; dirt bikes, street culture and the police; murders in our city; and Are Baltimore schools ready for the start of the year?
August 17, 2015
August 17, 2015 - Segment 1 - We begin the show with a National News Roundtable on Election 2016, topics including: the Republican Debate; Donald Trump's comments on money and women; racial justice, O'Malley and Sanders; and Hillary Clinton and Black women.
August 17, 2015
August 14, 2015 - Segment 2 - Up next is a special presentation of the Hip Hop Chronicles, produced by Mike "Nyce" Middleton, one of our creative and talented colleagues at WEAA 88.9-FM.
August 17, 2015
August 14, 2015 - Segment 1 - We begin our show with our weekly feature, Tengella's Take with Koli Tengella. Koli is President of Tengella Edutainment, an instructor and creator of the Positive Social Change Performing Arts Program at Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts High School, and was a 2010 Open Society Institute Fellow.
August 13, 2015
August 13, 2015 - Segment 3 - We listen back to a recent episode of Sound Bites, our series on our food and our world, about an exciting and important new initiative that was launched this summer in Baltimore: The Black Church Food Security Network.
August 13, 2015
August 13, 2015 - Segment 2 - We travel back to 2010 when I interviewed author Terry McMillan about her sequel to 1992's Waiting to Exhale, called Getting to Happy. The novel picks up 15 years after the exploits of friends Bernadine, Savannah, Robin and Gloria first appeared in print.
August 13, 2015
August 13, 2015 - Segment 1 - Do you run your hands happily through your lover's hair, but cringe when you find one of their hairs on your pillow or in a dish they have prepared for you? We begin the show with my 2009 interview with textile artist Sonya Clark, who had an exhibit at the Walters Art Museum featuring sculptures made of human hair.
August 12, 2015
August 12, 2015 - Segment 2 - We talk with Baltimore native and New York Times best-selling author Laura Lippman, who joined us in 2010 for a discussion about her novel 'I'd Know You Anywhere.'
August 12, 2015
August 12, 2015 - Segment 1 - We begin the show with a special archive edition from 2009, part of our Urbanite Radio Stories series in partnership with the Urbanite magazine.
August 11, 2015
August 11, 2015 - Segment 3 - It's a Philosopher's Roundtable on defining and exploring institutional racism. We look at its definition and historical roots, especially as they relate to today.
August 11, 2015
August 11, 2015 - Segment 2 - Marc talks with Dr. Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize winner and author of "The Challenge for Africa" to examine the biggest obstacles the continent faces and how to overcome them.
August 11, 2015
August 11, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc interviews Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Taylor Branch, whose trilogy 'America in the King Years' chronicles the life of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr..
August 10, 2015
August 10, 2015 - Segment 3 - Marc interviews Anthony Arthur about his book 'Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair.'
August 10, 2015
August 10, 2015 - Segment 2 - The show continues with another Philosopher's Roundtable! In this repeat broadcast from last year, we ask the question: Do Things Happen for a Reason?
August 10, 2015
August 10, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc talks with Gwen Ifill, moderator and managing editor for Washington Weekand co-anchor and co-managing editor of PBS NewsHour, about her book 'The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.'