May 30, 2014
May 29, 2014 - Segment 3 - We reflect on the life of Maya Angelou with talk show host Tavis Smiley, poet and Baltimore native Afaa Michael Weaver, and Loyola Assistant Professor Dr. Karsonya Wise Whitehead.
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May 30, 2014
May 29, 2014 - Segment 2 - Listen to our discussion of the state of Black media, especially in light of NPR's cancellation of Tell Me More, with Farai Chideya, Dr. Jared Ball, Dr. James Peterson, and Tavis Smiley.
May 23, 2014
May 23, 2014 - Segment 2 - Walter Mosley joins us to talk about his newest book: Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore! Mosley, who has been a guest on The Marc Steiner Show many times, is the author of more than 43 critically acclaimed books, including the major bestselling mystery series featuring Easy Rawlins.
May 21, 2014
May 21, 2014 - Segment 5 - We close the show with our weekly look at This Week in City Paper with Senior Editor Baynard Woods. Hear about City Paper's annual Sizzlin' Summer issue.
May 21, 2014
May 21, 2014 - Segment 3 - We look at the startling announcement today that NPR will cancel "Tell Me More with Michel Martin," one of their few shows featuring an African American host.
May 14, 2014
May 14, 2014 - Segment 7 - Baltimore City Paper Senior Editor Baynard Woods joins us to talk about what is in this week's issue of the City Paper.
May 14, 2014
May 14, 2014 - Segment 4 - We look at the career and life of Michael Sam, who last weekend became the first openly gay player to be drafted into the NFL. The airwaves have been buzzing with controversy over his reaction to the news: a televised kiss between him and his boyfriend.
May 12, 2014
May 12, 2014 - Segment 5 - Marc interviews American singer-songwriter, actor, teacher, and activist Holly Near, who will be performing at Common Ground on the Hill on Wednesday May 14.
May 9, 2014
May 9, 2014 - Segment 3 - We talk with three of the actors in Everyman Theatre's current production of By The Way, Meet Vera Stark. By The Way, Meet Vera Stark is a play by Lynn Nottage about the intersections of race in 1930s Hollywood.
May 9, 2014
May 8, 2014 - Segment 5 - We have a conversation with Maryland Film Festival Director Jed Dietz about features and shorts showing at the 2014 Maryland Film Festival, which runs through May 11.
May 9, 2014
May 8, 2014 - Segment 4 - We take a look at this week's Baltimore City Paper with Senior Editor Baynard Woods.
May 9, 2014
May 8, 2014 - Segment 3 - We discuss net neutrality with: Todd O'Boyle, Program Director of the Media and Democracy Reform Initiative at Common Cause; Brent Skorup, Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at the George Mason University; Dr. Jared Ball, Associate Professor of Media Studies in the School of Global Journalism and Communication at Morgan State University who can be found online at iMiXWHATiLiKE.org; and Dr. Margaret Flowers, co-Director of ItsOurEconomy.us and co-Host of Clearing the FOG (Forces of Greed) Radio Show
May 3, 2014
May 2, 2014 - Segment 4 - We hear an illuminating discussion that took place last Saturday at Everyman Theatre as part of their World of the Play series. The topic was Race and Representation: "Our greatest accomplishment. Our greatest shame."
May 3, 2014
May 2, 2014 - Segment 2 - We take a sneak peak at the Maryland Film Festival! We shine a spotlight on Marshall Curry's POINT AND SHOOT. POINT AND SHOOT follows Matt VanDyke, a 27-year-old with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder who left his home in Baltimore in 2006, bought a motorcycle and a video camera and began a three-year, 35,000-mile motorcycle trip through Northern Africa and the Middle East.
May 3, 2014
May 1, 2014 - Segment 3 - We look at African American Children's Literature, with: Dr. Mubina Kirmani,professor in the College of Education at Towson University and author of Bundle of Secrets: Savita Returns Home, and Helen Yuen, Marketing Director at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American History and Culture.
May 3, 2014
May 1, 2014 - Segment 2 - We speak with Dr. Hisham D. Aidi about his new highly-acclaimed book Rebel Music: Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture.
May 1, 2014
April 30, 2014 - Segment 5 - We close the show with This Week in the City Paper, with Senior Editor Baynard Woods. He talks about this week's issue, which includes Baynard's feature "Heart of Darkness: A prison philosophy program tells us what we can learn from lifers."
April 26, 2014
April 25, 2014 - Segment 5 - Ta-Nehisi Coates is an author whose new book is called The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood. He and his father, Paul Coates, joined us to discuss the complexities of coming of age and raising a family in black, urban America. Their real-life story takes place in Baltimore, but could translate easily to many cities around the United States.
April 25, 2014
April 25, 2014 - Segment 3 - We talk to Congolese artist and Wide Angle Youth Media filmmaker and student Evodie Ngoy. She made the short film "The Paradise That Wasn’t," which documents her experience attending Baltimore public school as a refugee.
April 24, 2014
April 24, 2014 - Segment 4 - We speak with Carla Woody, Founder of Kenosis Spirit Keepers - a nonprofit helping to preserve indigenous wisdom traditions - and author of Portals to the Vision Serpent, Standing Stark and Calling Our Spirits Home.
April 24, 2014
April 24, 2014 - Segment 2 - We turn to a fascinating discussion of Philosophical Atheism and Communities of Faith, in conjunction with a conference of the same name that will be held at Morgan State University this weekend.
April 24, 2014
April 23, 2014 - Segment 4 - We close out the show with This Week in City Paper with City Paper Senior Editor Baynard Woods.
April 24, 2014
April 23, 2014 - Segment 3 - It's Cultural Crossroads with Lea Gilmore! Gospel & Blues singer and Center for Emerging Media Cultural Editor Lea Gilmore co-hosts this hour as we look at The History of Rock 'n' Roll! Our guests include Dr. Glenn Altschuler, Litwin Professor of American Studies at Cornell University, and Rosa Pryor, columnist for The Afro and The Baltimore Times.
April 22, 2014
April 21, 2014 - Segment 5 - We examine the controversies over the new film on the life of the late iconic jazz singer and Civil Rights activist Nina Simone. Our guests are: Akiba Solomon, Editor for Colorlines; and Roz Cauthen, local playwright and Education Coordinator for CenterStage.
April 22, 2014
April 21, 2014 - Segment 4 - We look at African American representation in literature and the arts, asking What if African Americans were in charge of the literary world? Our guest will be author and film producer Felicia Pride.
April 22, 2014
April 21, 2014 - Segment 3 - We explore the life of an often overlooked but extremely important social and political figure, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Upton Sinclair. We will talk with author and historian Lauren Coodley, who wrote the book Upton Sinclair: California Socialist, Celebrity Intellectual.
April 22, 2014
April 21, 2014 - Segment 2 - We begin our week with a spotlight on the inspirational organization the Youth Resiliency Institute, which just received a grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for a project in the Cherry Hill neighborhood of Baltimore, to bring together generations, create community and family, and educate for peace.
April 18, 2014
April 18, 2014 - Hour 2 - The Other Wes Moore is the tale of two boys with the same name growing up at the same time in Baltimore. One is serving a life sentence for murder. The other took a dramatically different path, and he speaks with us today about what he found when he explored these two similar yet divergent lives.
April 18, 2014
April 17, 2014 - Segment 4 - We talk with Judy Chalkin, producer and director of the documentary The Girls In The Band, about female jazz and big band instrumentalists and their fascinating, groundbreaking journeys from the late 30s to the present day.
April 18, 2014
April 17, 2014 - Segment 2 - We learn about a dramatization of an important part of Baltimore's history. Citizens Stand: Battle for Baltimore 1814, a collaborative effort between the Baltimore School for the Arts, Maryland Historical Society, and National Park Service, is a production of three short plays about the battle that led to the writing of the Star Spangled Banner.
April 17, 2014
April 16, 2014 - Segment 5 - We close out the show with a feature on Kariz Kids Youth Enrichment Services, a program dedicated to bridging the gap between education, the arts and business by providing quality enrichment programs and services to youth organizations
April 17, 2014
April 16, 2014 - Segment 2 - Next we turn to the issue of marijuana in Maryland. We begin this discussion with City Paper Senior Editor Baynard Woods, who will talk about the City Paper's "Weed Issue."
April 16, 2014
April 15, 2014 - Segment 2 - We remember Karyn Washington, creator of For Brown Girls, a movement to empower and uplift darker-skinned Black women, who died of an apparent suicide this past weekend. Our guests are: Ty Alexander, beauty and lifestyle writer based in New York and originally from Baltimore; and Baltimore based performing artist, Black Shesus.
April 14, 2014
April 11, 2014 - Hour 1 - We talk the foundations of love and more with author and lawyer Gyasi Ross talks about his book How to Say I Love You in Indian. Ross is a member of the Blackfeet Indian Nation and also comes from the Suquamish Nation.
April 9, 2014
April 9, 2014 - Hour 2 - Stay tuned for some R&B and Gospel, as I talk with author Greg Kot, who has been the music critic at the Chicago Tribune since 1990, about his inspiring new book I'll Take You There: Mavis Staples, the Staple Singers and the March up Freedom's Highway.
April 8, 2014
April 8, 2014 - Segment 1 - We start the show with a roundtable of artists, musicians and performers. Our guests talk about their work, why they express themselves through their art, and the joy of performing and making art.
April 8, 2014
April 7, 2014 - Hour 1 - We take a step back in time while I interview award-winning Baltimore author Ericka Blount Danois about her book Love, Peace, and Soul: Behind the Scenes of America's Favorite Dance Show Soul Train: Classic Moments.
April 4, 2014
April 4, 2014 - Segment 6 - We close out the show with a preview of a musical event benefiting TurnAround, Inc., on April 11. We're joined by Pierre Bensusan, acoustic guitarist composer and bilingual improvisational vocalist, and Amelia Rubenstein, LGSW, Team Leader of the Anti-Trafficking Program at TurnAround, Inc.
April 4, 2014
April 3, 2014 - Segment 3 - We talk about Soul Food Junkies, which looks at the past, present and future of soul food, from its origins in West Africa to the American South.
April 4, 2014
April 3, 2014 - Segment 2 - We look at The New Black, which documents activists, families and clergy on both sides of the campaign to legalize gay marriage. Then, Edward Wyckoff Williams gives us a national perspective on the issues raised in the film.
April 1, 2014
April 1, 2014 - Hour 1 - Last Friday I participated in the Split This Rock poetry festival in Washington, DC, where educators, students and writers from across the country wrestled with the political objectives of writing in a contemporary world. We shared our ideas on the politics of writing, and reflected on George Orwell's 1946 essay "Why I Write."
April 1, 2014
March 28, 2014 - Segment 3 - We take a sneak peek at the current production at Baltimore's CenterStage: Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Joining us is: Caroline Hewitt, who plays Viola; Allen McCullough, who plays Malvolio; and Brian Reddy, who plays Sir Toby.
March 27, 2014
March 27, 2014 - Segment 4 - It's our monthly Arts and Culture segment with Center for Emerging Media's Cultural Editor, world-renowned Gospel and Blues singer Lea Gilmore! We talk Afrofuturism, with: Baltimore-based producer, DJ, and singer Blaqstarr; and author, filmmaker, dancer, and futurist Ytasha L. Womack. Then, we close out the show with Lea's and Marc's reflections and recommendations on what they've been reading, listening to, and watching.
March 27, 2014
March 26, 2014 - Segment 5 - We close out the show with a look at the new play at CCBC, The Consumables, with the play's director Julie Lewis. The play is a docudrama inspired by themes from David Shipler's book The Working Poor, and is based on actual interviews with Baltimore low-wage workers.
March 27, 2014
March 26, 2014 - Segment 3 - It's time for our regular weekly feature, This Week in City Paper, with Senior Editor Baynard Woods.
March 25, 2014
March 21, 2014 - Segment 2 - We talk the foundations of love and more with author and lawyer Gyasi Ross talks about his book How to Say I Love You in Indian. Ross is a member of the Blackfeet Indian Nation and also comes from the Suquamish Nation.
March 20, 2014
March 20, 2014 - Segment 3 - We look at Live Young Blood, a compelling and edgy documentary that travels deep into Baltimore's urban communities that are wrestling with ways to transform a culture of violence. We talk with filmmakers Bobby Marvin Holmes and Justin Gladden, as well as Kimberly Armstrong, who lost her son to the streets and who is featured in the film.
March 20, 2014
March 20, 2014 - Segment 2 - Last week in the New York Times' Sunday Review, an opinion piece by children's book author Walter Dean Myers was published, titled "Where Are the People of Color in Children's Books?" To answer the question, we talk to a panel of children's book authors and a librarian.
March 19, 2014
March 19, 2014 - Segment 5 - We talk to Baynard Woods, Senior Editor of the City Paper, about this week's issue, which includes features about MICA's adjunct faculty moving to unionize and more.
March 17, 2014
March 17, 2014 - Segment 4 - We'll discuss the latest article by author, filmmaker and Coppin State University teacher D. Watkins. Called How Glamorizing Drugs Is Killing Black Kids, it discusses young people and hip hop about drug dealing.