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January 15, 2015

January 14: This Day in History

January 14, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the incendiary inaugural speech of former Alabama Governor George C. Wallace, the ousting of former Tunisian president Zine El Abdine Ben Ali, and the premieres' of two of Americas most beloved TV comedies, Sanford and Sun and The Simpsons.
January 13, 2015

Sound Bites: What Does Waterkeeper v. Hudson Trial Mean For Future Maryland Environmental Policies?

January 13, 2015 - Segment 4 - We look back at the historic 2013 ruling in the Waterkeeper v. Hudson case and the continuing debate on poultry farming and pollution in our Bay.
January 12, 2015

January 12: This Day In History

January 12, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day playwright and activist Lorraine Hansberry died, the day the 2010 earthquake in Haiti killed 316,000 Haitians, and the day the Supreme Court made it illegal for states to discriminate against law-school applicants because of race.
January 9, 2015

January 8: This Day In History

January 8, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the German Coast Rebellion outside of New Orleans, the day African-American men were given the right to vote in Washington DC, and the day the first issue of The Woman's Journal and Suffrage News was published.
January 7, 2015

January 7: This Day in History

January 7, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the birth of Zora Neale Hurston, and the day Marian Anderson became the first African American to perform at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York in 1955.
January 6, 2015

Sound Bites: Top Food Stories Of 2014 | How Congress Will Impact Our Food & School Lunches

January 6, 2015 - Segment 3 - On our newest episode of Sound Bites, our series on our food and our world, we reflect upon the top food stories of 2014 with our panel of guests, and we discuss food-related issues on Congress' radar this year.
January 6, 2015

January 6: This Day In History

January 6, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day President Franklin Delano Roosevelt talked about his Four Freedoms, the day the New England Anti-Slavery Society was organized, and the day former KKK leader Edgar Ray Killen was arrested for the murders of three civil rights workers who were killed during Freedom Summer in Mississippi.
January 5, 2015

January 5: This Day In History

January 5, 2015 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including National Bird Day, the day Henry Ford announced an eight-hour workday and a "living wage," and Founders Day for Kappa Alpha Psi, the world's second oldest and largest African American fraternity.
January 2, 2015

Sound Bites: Doctors Concerned About Antibiotic Use On Healthy Animals | Maryland Poultry Farms Fined Over Pollution | Visit To Hidden Harvest Farm in Baltimore

December 30, 2014 - Segment 2 - In an archive edition of Sound Bites, we discuss antibiotic use among healthy animals, the fining of Maryland poultry farms over pollution, and we visit Hidden Harvest Farm in Baltimore.
January 2, 2015

Sound Bites: Gather Baltimore’s Kickstarter Campaign | Plastics and Our Oceans | Schmaltz

December 23, 2014 - Segment 4 - In our latest episode in our series about our food and our world, Sound Bites, we hear about Gather Baltimore's kickstarter campaign, and take a look at the effect of plastics on our ecosystem.
January 2, 2015

December 23: This Day in History

December 23, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day including, President Warren G. Harding's "Christmas Amnesty" which granted clemency for 23 political prisoners, and the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank.
December 22, 2014

December 22: This Day in History

December 22, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the birth of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and the conviction of French Army Officer Alfred Dreyfus in a court martial that triggered worldwide charges of anti-Semitism.
December 19, 2014

December 18: This Day In History

December 18, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the birthday of actor and activist Ossie Davis, the day environmental activist Julia "Butterfly" Hill came down from the ancient Redwood tree she staged a two-year protest in, and the start of the Arab Spring Uprisings.
December 18, 2014

December 17: This Day in History

December 17, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including when Simón Bolívar declared the independence of Gran Colombia in Angostura (now Ciudad Bolívar in Venezuela), the election of Jean-Bertrand Aristide as president of Haiti, and Mohamed Bouazizi setting himself on fire. This act became the catalyst for the Tunisian revolution and the wider Arab Spring.
December 18, 2014

Sound Bites: Abusing The Chickens We Eat? | Bryant Terry’s ‘Afro-Vegan’

December 16, 2014 - Segment 3 - For the latest edition of our series on our food and our world, Sound Bites. We begin the hour with a look at an op-ed piece by NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, "Abusing Chickens We Eat." Then, listen in to a special archive as we talk with chef and food justice activist Bryant Terry about his book Afro-Vegan.
December 18, 2014

December 16: This Day In History

December 16, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the beginning of the Battle of the Bulge, the birthday of African American historian William Cooper Nell, and NAACP co-founder Fanny Garrison Villard.
December 17, 2014

December 15: This Day in History

December 15, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history including the murder of Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux leader Sitting Bull, the day we lost civil rights leader Septima Poinsette Clark, and the American Psychiatric Association voting unanimously to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders.
December 14, 2014

December 12: This Day In History

December 12, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day we lost composer Henry Thacker Burleigh, the day Benjamin Banneker completed the first clock made entirely in America, and the birthday of poet Lola Ridge.
December 12, 2014

December 10: This Day In History

December 10, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Selma Lagerlof became the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, the day Nelson Mandela signed the South African Constitution into law, and the day comedian Richard Pryor passed away.
December 10, 2014

Sound Bites: Where’s The Diversity in the Environmental Movement? | Diverse Legal Concerns for MD Agriculture

December 9, 2014 - Segment 4 - In a brand new episode of Sound Bites, we discuss the lack of diversity in the leadership of environmental organizations and discuss a recent report on top legal concerns for Maryland's agricultural community.
December 8, 2014

December 5: This Day In History

December 5, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Christopher Columbus became the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola, the day Mary McLeod Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women, and the day Phillis Wheatley, the first African American woman to have her work published, died.
December 4, 2014

December 4: This Day In History

December 4, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the American Anti-Slavery Society was founded, the day the U.S. Senate approved U.S. participation in the United Nations, and the day Cesar Chavez was jailed for 20 days for refusing to end the United Farm Workers' grape boycott.
December 4, 2014

December 3: This Day In History

December 3, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Andrew Jackson became President of the United States, the day Fredrick Douglass published the first edition of the North Star, and the day Bob Marley was shot twice near his home in Jamaica in an assassination attempt.
December 2, 2014

Sound Bites: Maryland Environmental & Agricultural Policy — What Is Governor O’Malley’s Legacy?

December 2, 2014 - Segment 3 - In the latest installment of Sound Bites, our series about our food and our world, we host a Maryland Environmental and Agricultural Policy Roundtable on fracking and phosphorous management.
December 2, 2014

December 2: This Day in History

December 2, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the 1859 hanging of abolitionist John Brown for his raid on harpers Ferry, West Virginia, riots breaking out in Jerusalem in response to the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine in 1947, and the death of folk singer and activist Odetta.
December 1, 2014

December 1: This Day In History

December 1, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc discusses what happened on this day in history, including the day slavery was abolished in the Cape Colony, the day Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, and the day French sculptor Marie Tussaud was born.
December 1, 2014

November 28: This Day In History

November 28, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day author Richard Wright passed away, the day the International Brotherhood of Electrical Worker was founded, and the birthday of educator Helen Magill White, who was the first woman to earn a PhD.
December 1, 2014

November 26: This Day In History

November 26, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Baltimore-born sculptor Ed Wilson passed away, the day Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a holiday, and the day hall of fame abolitionist and women's rights activist Sojourner Truth died.
December 1, 2014

Sound Bites: Delmarva Secretaries Of Agriculture On The Future Of Our Region

November 25, 2014 - Segment 3 - On our newest episode of our series on our food and our world, Sound Bites, listen to a panel I moderated last week for the ESLC's 15th Eastern Shore Planning Conference, where I talked with the three Delmarva Secretaries of Agriculture about agricultural and environmental issues important to the Delmarva region.
December 1, 2014

November 25: This Day In History

November 25, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day comedian and actor Flip Wilson died, the day a group of Confederate operatives called the Confederate Army of Manhattan made an unsuccessful attempt to burn down NYC, and the day Joe Gans, the first American-born African American to win a world boxing championship, was born in Baltimore.
November 30, 2014

November 24: This Day In History

November 24, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day lawyer and civil rights activist Percy Ellis Sutton was born, the day Charles Darwin published 'On The Origin of Species,' and the day Mother's Day founder Anna Jarvis passed away.
November 29, 2014

November 21: This Day In History

November 21, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day North Carolina became a state, the day Shaw University was founded, becoming the first university for African Americans in the South, and the day poet and artist Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs died.
November 24, 2014

November 20: This Day in History

November 20, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the start of the Nuremberg trials in Germany, Native American activists seizing control of Alcatraz Island, and the execution Zumbi, the last of the leaders of fugitive African settlement, Quilombos dos Palmares.
November 21, 2014

November 19: This Day In History

November 19, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the birthday of abolitionist Sojourner Truth, the day labor leader and songwriter Joe Hill was executed, and the day the United States' Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles.
November 20, 2014

Sound Bites: Phosphorus Management Tool |Baltimore’s Brassica Festival

November 18, 2014 - Segment 4 - This week on Sound Bites, we discuss Governor Martin O'Malley's move forward last week with the Phosphorus Management Tool and the Brassica Festival, happening this weekend in Park Heights.
November 18, 2014

November 18: This Day in History

November 18, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including President Kennedy sending 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam, the 1978 Peoples Temple mass murder/suicide, andRonald Reagan signing a bill into law allowing for a Cabinet-level drug czar and the death penalty for drug traffickers.
November 17, 2014

November 17: This Day In History

November 17, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Theodora Ann “Tidye” Pickett, the first African American woman to compete for the United States in the Olympic Games, died, the day President Richard Nixon told 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook", and the birthday of storyteller and cook Nancy Green, who became Aunt Jemima.
November 17, 2014

November 14: This Day In History

November 14, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day journalist Nellie Bly began her attempt to travel around he world in less than 80 days, the day the NAACP led protests against the showing of the racist film Birth of a Nation, and the day educator and founder of the Tuskegee Institute, Booker T. Washington, died.
November 17, 2014

November 13: This Day In History

November 13, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the end of the Montgomery Bus Boycott after the Supreme Court decision calling racial segregation on public buses unconstitutional, the birthday of feminist activist and writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and the day anti-war protesters staged a symbolic March Against Death in Washington, D.C.
November 14, 2014

November 12: This Day in History

November 12, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including Seymour Hersh breaking the My Lai story, the birth of activist and feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and the suspension of South Africa from the UN General Assembly because of its policy of apartheid.
November 14, 2014

Sound Bites: Veteran Farmers | Effect Of Larry Hogan’s Election On Maryland Environmental & Ag Policy

November 11, 2014 - Segment 3 - On our Veterans Day edition of Sound Bites we begin the hour by talking to veterans who have embraced farming after returning home from war. Then, we close out Sound Bites by looking at last week's election results and the potential effect on Maryland's environmental and agricultural policy.
November 14, 2014

November 10: This Day in History

November 10, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including Kristallnacht, when anti-Jewish pogroms took place across Germany, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the passing of UN Resolution 3379, which equated Zionism and racism.
November 10, 2014

November 7: This Day In History

November 7, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the day Douglas Wilder becomes the first African American to be elected as governor of a U.S. state, and the day in 1990 when the National Football League responded to the state of Arizona’s refusal to observe a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday by rescinding their plan to hold the 1993 Super Bowl in Phoenix.
November 10, 2014

November 6: This Day in History

November 6, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the election of Jefferson Davis to the presidency of the Confederacy, Art Modell's 1995 announcement that he planned to move the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore,and the birth of author Michael Cunningham.
November 10, 2014

November 5: This Day In History

November 5, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day American slave leader Nat Turner was tried, convicted and sentenced to death, the day Susan B. Anthony first voted, and the day civil rights activist Channing Heggie Tobias died.