October 15, 2013
October 15, 2013 - Hour 1 - National Book Award-winning author Jesmyn Ward joins us to discuss her compelling new memoir, Men We Reaped.
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October 15, 2013
October 14, 2013 - Hour 2 - Award-winning author, composer and screenwriter James McBride joins us to talk about his latest novel, The Good Lord Bird, which tells the story of John Brown through the eyes of a 12-year-old child.
October 15, 2013
October 14, 2013 – Hour 1 – Author Terry McMillan joins us. Famous for her novels such as Waiting to Exhale, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, and Getting to Happy, McMillan talks to Marc about her latest book, Who Asked You?
October 10, 2013
October 10, 2013 - Segment 4 - We feature Fusion Partnerships, Inc., a local organization whose mission is to work through collaborative action to be a catalyst for justice and peace.
October 9, 2013
October 9, 2013 - Segment 5 - Baltimore City Paper Senior Editor Baynard Woods gives us an update on what's coming up this week in the City Paper.
October 7, 2013
October 7, 2013 - Segment 2 - Lea Gilmore joins us to co-host a conversation on opera at Morgan State University.
October 4, 2013
October 3, 2013 - Segment 4 - We close out the show with a conversation with English guitar player Adrian Legg, who will play a concert this Saturday at Common Ground on the Hill. He is renowned on both sides of the Atlantic for his signature blend of music styles and mastery of both acoustic and electric guitar technique.
October 3, 2013
October 2, 2013 - Segment 3 - Our friends from City Paper tell us what's inside this week's edition. Baynard Woods, City Paper senior editor, joins us for that update.
September 30, 2013
September 27, 2013 - Hour 2 - King Peggy is the King of Otuam, a village in Ghana, and author, with Eleanor Herman, ofKing Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village, which is the Maryland Humanities Council's One Maryland One Book choice for 2013.
September 29, 2013
September 27, 2013 - Hour 1 - Author Terry McMillan joins us. Famous for her novels such as Waiting to Exhale, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, and Getting to Happy, McMillan talks to Marc about her latest book, Who Asked You?
September 24, 2013
September 24, 2013 - Hour 1 - Have you ever read Toni Morrison's novel Beloved? Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner? Captain Underpants? Then you have read a banned book! Tuesday morning we observe Banned Books Week, a week celebrating the freedom to read.
September 24, 2013
September 23, 2013 - Segment 2 - Award-winning author, composer and screenwriter James McBride joins us to talk about his latest novel, The Good Lord Bird, which tells the story of John Brown through the eyes of a 12-year-old child.
September 19, 2013
September 19, 2013 - Segment 3 - We pay a visit to 901 Arts, a community-based youth arts center dedicated to providing art and music programs to the children and teens of the Better Waverly neighborhood.
September 18, 2013
September 18, 2013 - Hour 2 - This week on our biweekly segment on Arts and Culture with Center for Emerging Media Cultural Editor Lea Gilmore, we focus on CUPs, a new coffeehouse in Baltimore's Hollins Market that trains and employs at-risk youth and young adults.
September 16, 2013
September 16, 2013 - Segment 2 - We talk to David E. Talbert, a multiple award-winning playwright, novelist and filmmaker. His latest film Baggage Claim marks the first time an African American has written and directed a film that was adapted from his own novel.
September 13, 2013
September 12, 2013 - Segment 3 - LOVE the Poet joins us to talk about "God's Country," the one woman play she wrote, created, and performs in this Friday, 9/13 at 7pm at the 2640 Space, 2640 St. Paul Street.
September 12, 2013
September 11, 2013 - Segment 4 - Actor, narrator, writer, and social commentator Keith Snipes co-hosts our second conversation focused on Black men in the arts. We discuss masculinity and talk about the importance of young people getting involved in the arts.
September 9, 2013
September 9, 2013 - Segment 1 - We begin the show with a discussion of Lee Daniels' The Butler -- considering the various accolades and critiques of its storyline -- and an analysis of representations of African Americans in film in general.
September 6, 2013
September 6, 2013 - Segment 2 - We hear from City Paper senior editor Baynard Woods about this week's feature story, "Urban Artillery: Wall Hunters takes on the slumlords crippling Baltimore neighborhoods."
September 3, 2013
September 2, 2013 - Hours 1 & 2 - Happy Labor Day! We celebrate with a 2-hour special of interviews and music. You will hear local activists, union members, and workers talk about what Labor Day means in 2013 and what major challenges workers face across the country, interspersed with songs by Woody Guthrie, Bo Diddley, Tracy Chapman, Joan Baez, and others.
August 29, 2013
August 29, 2013 - Segment 1 - Blues & Gospel singer, Center for Emerging Media Cultural Editor, and Director of Network Operations for the Moving MD Forward Network Lea Gilmore is in the house! Lea co-hosts a conversation about the Baltimore Summer Opera Workshop at Morgan State University.
August 28, 2013
August 28, 2013 - Segment 4 - We are joined by author Wil Haygood, Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities fellow, who wrote the 2008 Washington Post article that inspired the film Lee Daniels' The Butler: "A Butler Well Served by This Election."
August 28, 2013
August 28, 2013 - Segment 2 - This week, we begin a weekly look at the Baltimore City Paper. We're joined by the City Paper's Senior Editor Baynard Woods for an update on what's in this week's issue. Please visit the Citypaper.com for more information.
August 27, 2013
August 27, 2013 - Segment 2 - Later in the first hour we turn our attention to the Black August Film Festival, which is happening this weekend in Baltimore.
August 27, 2013
August 26, 2013 - Segment 2 - Members of New Lens Productions join us in-studio to discuss their programs to increase understanding between Baltimore's youth and the police.
August 22, 2013
August 22, 2013 - Segment 5 - We close out the show with librettist Alan Marshall, who talks about The March: A Civil Rights Opera, a new opera that explores the personal and political circumstances surrounding the 1963 March on Washington. The March will be performed on August 25th at Baltimore' s Enon Baptist Church.
August 20, 2013
August 20, 2013 - Hour 1 - Lee Daniel's The Butler opened in theatres across the country this past weekend. We begin the show with a discussion of this film -- considering the various accolades and critiques of its storyline -- and an analysis of representations of African Americans in film in general.
August 14, 2013
August 14, 2013 - Segment 3 We are joined by Lea Gilmore - songstress, activist, and Center for Emerging Media Cultural Editor - for a discussion with Marc about the music they've been listening to, movies they've been watching, theater they've been attending and books they've been reading. Callers join us to share their favorites as well.
August 14, 2013
August 14, 2013 - Segment 2 - Lea Gilmore - songstress, activist, and Center for Emerging Media Cultural Editor - joins us to co-host a conversation with Sandy Asirvatham and ellen cherry, co-creators of Mobtown Moon, a project that involves 40 Baltimore-based musicians re-imagining the classic Pink Floyd album Dark Side of the Moon.
August 8, 2013
August 8, 2013 - Segment 3 - We commemorate the 20th anniversary of "A Different World," a groundbreaking television show that challenged stereotypes about race.
August 8, 2013
August 8, 2013 - Segment 1 - We continue our series, Deep Voices: Black men in the arts. We discuss masculinity, talk about the importance of young people getting involved in the arts, and hear stories from local artists.
August 7, 2013
August 7, 2013 - Segment 4 - We speak with four fascinating poets about an interactive poetry experience called Come On Son. Featuring four women based out of the Baltimore area, it will play this Sunday in Baltimore.
August 2, 2013
August 2, 2013 - Segment 3 - We close out the show with students from Everyman Theatre's High School Summer Acting Intensive, performing scenes from William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
July 31, 2013
July 31, 2013 - Segment 4 - We are joined by Marshall Bell, host of Midday Magazine with Marshall Bell on Radio One WOLB 1010-AM, who will tell us about his novel, Baltimore Blues - Harm City.
July 26, 2013
July 25, 2013, Segment 1 - We examine the critique that in the U.S. we focus on Eurocentric philosophies, and feature philosophers who are working to change that reality.
July 25, 2013
July 24, 2013, Segment 3 - We speak with DeWayne Wickham, Distinguished Professor of Journalism and Dean of Morgan State University's School of Global Journalism and Communication.
July 25, 2013
July 23, 2013 - Segment 1 - Manil Suri, Mathematics professor at University of Maryland-Baltimore County (UMBC) and author of The Death of Vishnu and The Age of Shiva, joins us to talk about his newest novel, The City of Devi, a comedic love story that takes place on the brink of a nuclear war between India and Pakistan.
July 22, 2013
July 22, 2013 - Segment 3 - We bring you an interview from this spring's CityLit Festival with Jamal Joseph, activist, urban guerrilla, FBI's most wanted fugitive, poet, and filmmaker, who discusses his memoir, Panther Baby: A Life of Rebellion & Reinvention.
July 19, 2013
July 19, 2013 - Segment 3 - Bestselling and award-winning novelist Walter Mosley joins us in-studio to talk about his new book "Little Green: An Easy Rawlins Mystery."
July 17, 2013
July 17, 2013 - Hour 2 - This year marks the 162nd anniversary of Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" speech. Lea Gilmore joins us for a reading of that speech. Then, we discuss African American women and feminism with Lea Gilmore, dream hampton, Jodi Kelber-Kaye, and A. Adar Ayira.
July 11, 2013
July 11, 2013 - Segment 3 - A roundtable of black male artists joins us to talk art, masculinity, and the importance of exposing young minds to the arts.
July 11, 2013
July 11, 2013 - Segment 2 - We turn to Baltimore's Station North Arts and Entertainment District, which was the subject of a City Paper article, "Can Station North Save The City?" We discuss revitalization, gentrification, and the state of arts in the city.
July 10, 2013
July 10, 2013 - Segment 2 - We take a look at the Common Ground on the Hill Festival, which is happening this weekend at the Carroll County Farm Museum in Westminster, Maryland. In addition, we talk with participants of the Green Valley Samaritan project, a group of volunteers in Arizona who go out into the desert to provide water for and assist migrants trying to cross the border from Mexico to the U.S.
July 8, 2013
July 5, 2013 - Hour 2 - We rebroadcast our inspiring interview with the amazing Dr. Temple Grandin. Author, professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University and a consultant on animal behavior to the livestock industry, Grandin talks about her latest book, The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum.
July 8, 2013
July 4, 2013 - Segment 2 - We talk to filmmaker Ryan Coogler about his compelling new film Fruitvale Station, based on the true story of Oscar Grant, the 22-year-old Oakland, CA, man killed by a BART police officer on New Year's Day 2009.
June 28, 2013
June 28, 2013 - Segment 3 - We close out the show with Icelandic folk music! Chris Foster and Bara Grimsdottir of FUNI, an Icelandic folk music group, give a preview of their upcoming Friday night performance tonight at An Die Musik.
June 27, 2013
June 27, 2013 - Segment 2 - Actors Aldo Pantoja and LOVE the poet stop by to talk about the Baltimore Performance Kitchen's Romeo & Juliet, which features a diverse and dynamic cast that challenges our understanding of race and gender in this well-known story.
June 26, 2013
June 26, 2013 - Segment 6 - We close the show with a conversation on the best children's books of the summer. We are joined by Jessica Brown, Children's Services Coordinator for the Enoch Pratt Free Library; and Paula Willey, part-time librarian at the Parkville branch of the Baltimore County Public Library.
June 20, 2013
June 20, 2013 - Segment 3 - Documentary filmmaker Kelly Anderson discusses her film My Brooklyn about gentrification in her neighborhood, which is showing tomorrow night in Baltimore.
June 19, 2013
June 19, 2013 - Segment 1 - We honor Juneteenth, the holiday commemorating June 19, 1865, when the abolition of slavery was announced in Texas. Center for Emerging Media Cultural Editor and renowned blues and gospel singer Lea Gilmore co-hosts a conversation about Juneteenth, as well as a celebration of classic female blues artists of the 1920s and 1930s.