June 14, 2013
June 14, 2013 - Segment 6 - We close out the show with singer Marni Nixon, who is famous for dubbing the singing voices for lead actresses in films, including West Side Story, The King and I, and My Fair Lady.
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June 14, 2013
June 14, 2013 - Segment 5 - Kashaun Cooper joins us to discuss his book The Champion Father, which focuses on the qualities that turn ordinary fathers into champion fathers.
June 14, 2013
June 14, 2013 - Segment 2 - Hear from Robert Shahid, co-host of WEAA's Baltimore Blend, who will tell us about the event that WEAA will host next Wednesday, June 19, in partnership with the Creative Alliance: "1963: The Music and The Movement."
June 11, 2013
June 11, 2013 - Hour 1 - Bestselling and award-winning novelist Walter Mosley joins us in-studio to talk about his new book Little Green: An Easy Rawlins Mystery.
June 11, 2013
June 10, 2013-Segment 5-We had a conversation with Meshelle The Indie Mom of Comedy, founder of GOAL Diggers The Sankofa Project, a program focused on connecting inner-city teen girls of African decent to education by introducing them to the study of their ancestry and ethnic identity.
June 8, 2013
June 7, 2013 - Segment 4 - We look at two plays based on Lorraine Hansberry's classic Raisin in the Sun. Baltimore's CenterStage is now presenting "The Raisin Cycle," featuring performances of Clybourne Park and Beneatha's Place.
June 8, 2013
June 7, 2013 - Segment 3 - We talk about the upcoming short film Rez, about an Ojibwe teenager who lives on the Leech Lake reservation and is taking care of his young sister alone, trying to survive in spite of pressure from the gangs on the Rez.
June 6, 2013
June 6, 2013 - Segment 3 - We close out the show with a look ahead at this weekend's performances of the masterpiece "Carmina Burana" by the Morgan State University's Choir and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Eric Conway, Director of the Morgan State University Choir, will join us to talk about what promises to be an amazing event, along with two students: Leah Hawkins and Colin Lett.
June 4, 2013
June 5, 2013 - Hour 2 - We bring you a panel discussion we recorded this past semester at UMBC, titled "Race and the Civil Rights Movement in Music and Media."
June 4, 2013
June 5, 2013 - Hour 1 - 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.
June 4, 2013
June 4, 2013 - Segment 4 - We kick-off another live episode of Sound Bites with a debate over the Johns Hopkins University study on arsenicals in chicken, and we look at Monsanto in the news with Tom Laskawy and Tom Philpott. Then, Blain Snipstal reads a Langston Hughes poem that highlights the importance of African Americans in agriculture and farming.
June 4, 2013
June 4, 2013 - Segment 3 - Meagan Hatcher-Mays, recent graduate of Washington University Law School in St. Louis and freelance contributor for Jezebel, offers a commentary on the Cheerios commercial that polarized the online community because of its depiction of a multiracial family.
May 31, 2013
May 31, 2013 - Segment 5 - We close out the show with filmmaker Roy T. Anderson, who talks about his film Akwantu: the Journey, a documentary that explores the history of The Maroons, enslaved Africans who won their freedom in Jamaica.
May 29, 2013
March 29, 2013 - Segment 3 - May 29 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.
May 29, 2013
March 29, 2013 - Segment 2 - Journalist, author, and Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University Farai Chideya joins us to talk about the lack of diversity in media.
May 24, 2013
May 24, 2013 - Segment 3 - Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Leonard Pitts, Jr. discusses his compelling new novel, Freeman. The novel begins the day slavery ended in the U.S. and is about the existential and real struggle over what it means to be free.
May 22, 2013
May 22, 2013 - Hour 2 - We talk about Arena Players, the longest running continuously operating African-American community theater in the U.S. Then we discuss The Caretaker, Harold Pinter's classic play, currently at Performance Workshop Theatre. Since May 21 would have been The Notorious B.I.G.'s 41st birthday, we will discuss his legacy.
May 21, 2013
May 21, 2013 - Segment 5 - We close out the show with the energetic voices of the Baltimore Citywide Youth Poetry Team - this year comprised completely of young talented women - who will be representing Baltimore at the 16th Annual Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam in August in Chicago.
May 17, 2013
May 17, 2013 - Segment 3 - We talk with artist Mina Cheon, AKA Kim IL Soon, and Ethan Cohen of Ethan Cohen Fine Arts in New York City about the work of this Socialist Realist painter from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and how her work is tied to a quest for the reunification of Korea and global peace.
May 16, 2013
May 16, 2013 - Segment 3 - We talk about a big event coming to Baltimore: the American Alliance of Museums' Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo, which brings a world audience to our city and many special events to our city's museums.
May 13, 2013
May 14, 2013 - Segment 2 - It's time for some Theatre Baltimore! Eric Berryman, one of the stars of Topdog/Underdog, stops by to talk about the play in which two African-American brothers were named Lincoln and Booth respectively... as a joke.
May 9, 2013
May 8, 2013 - Segment 3 - The Maryland Film Festival is back, and we're joined by film festival director Jed Dietz for a conversation about what makes this festival unique.
May 9, 2013
May 8, 2013 - Segment 4 - We discuss the new film, 12 O'clock Boys, a documentary about dirt bike riders in Baltimore which will be screened at the Maryland Film Festival this weekend.
May 9, 2013
May 8, 2013 - Segment 5 - We're joined by filmmaker Joe Compton to talk about his documentary By and By: New Orleans Gospel at the Crossroads. The film focuses on The Electrifying Crown Seekers, a gospel group, and band members James Williams and Keith Williams join us as well.
May 8, 2013
May 7, 2013-Segment 1 Filmmakers Joe Tropea and Skizz Cyzk along with Catholic peace activist Brendan Walsh joined us for a discussion about the new film, Hit & Stay.
May 8, 2013
May 7, 2013- Segment 2 We are joined by blues and folk singer Toshi Reagon, who will discuss her work and her upcoming performance with her mom, Dr. Bernice Johnson-Reagon at the Creative Alliance this Saturday.
May 8, 2013
May 7, 2013- Segment 4 - We spoke with Tom Reiss, who recently won a Pulitzer Prize for his book The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo.
May 2, 2013
May 2, 2013 - Segment 2 - We hear the second part of a segment we started yesterday featuring two Baltimore-born poets, Afaa Michael Weaver and Reginald Harris, reading at the City Lit Festival at Enoch Pratt Free Library last month.
May 2, 2013
May 2, 2013 - Segment 1 - We take a tour of the American Visionary Arts Museum's latest exhibit, The Art of Storytelling: Lies, Enchantment, Humor and Truth, with Rebecca Hoffberger.
May 1, 2013
May 1, 2013-Segment 1-We will discuss R&B/soul music and the legacy of Globe Poster Printing Corporation, a historical printing company that pressed iconic posters promoting performances of legendary R&B, soul, jazz artists.
May 1, 2013
May 1, 2013-Segment 4-We will close out our program with the voices of Afaa Michael Weaver and Reginald Harris, two great poets from Baltimore.
April 30, 2013
April 30, 2013 - Segment 1 - What would the purchase of the Baltimore Sun by the Koch brothers mean for the Sun and Baltimore?
April 24, 2013
April 23, 2013 - Segment 4 - We go behind-the-scenes tour of a fascinating exhibit currently on display at the Walters Art Gallery: "New Eyes on America: The Genius of Richard Caton Woodville."
April 17, 2013
April 17, 2013 - Segment 1 - Today we are joined by legendary jazz singer Ethel Ennis. Known as Baltimore's first lady of jazz, she will be honored by the Creative Alliance with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Marquee Ball this weekend.
April 10, 2013
April 10, 2013 - Hour 2 - Meshelle and Stacie Sanders-Evans join us as we talk to Tom Dunkel, author of Color Blind: The Forgotten Team That Broke Baseball's Color Line, a book about an integrated baseball team in Bismarck, North Dakota a decade before Jackie Robinson.
April 10, 2013
April 10, 2013 - Hour 1 - Author and songwriter John Milton Wesley co-hosts the show with Marc, and Dr. Harriet A. Washington joins us to talk about her book, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, about the history of racial disparities in medicine.
April 9, 2013
April 9, 2013 - Hour 2 - Lester Spence co-hosts a conversation with Mischa Webley, writer and director of The Kill Hole, a new war drama about the impact of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on soldiers returning home from Iraq.
April 9, 2013
April 8, 2013 - Segment 3 - Author and MSNBC host Touré talks about his new book I Would Die 4 U: Why Prince Became An Icon.
April 9, 2013
April 8, 2013 - Segment 1 - Co-host Anthony McCarthy joins us for a conversation with Rawn James, Jr., author of The Double V: How Wars, Protest and Harry Truman Desegregated America's Military, a book that explores the struggle of black soldiers to achieve equality during World War II.
April 4, 2013
April 4, 2013 - Segment 1 - We talk to Meshelle, "The Indie-Mom of Comedy" and Founder of Goaldiggers The Sankofa Project, about an event coming up this weekend at 7pm on Sunday, April 7th at the Creative Alliance in Baltimore.
March 28, 2013
March 28, 2013 - Segment 2 - Dr. Marisela Gomez joins us to talk about her book Race, Class, Power, and Organizing in East Baltimore, which examines how economic development could be different if we took into consideration people, their health, and their communities.
March 27, 2013
March 26, 2013 - Segment 3 - Listen to our interview with national bestselling author Jeanine Cummins about her new novel The Crooked Branch, taped earlier this month at The Ivy Bookshop. Cummins' compelling narrative follows the lives of two mothers, one in modern-day New York and the other in Ireland during the Great Famine.
March 27, 2013
March 26, 2013 - Segment 2 - We turn our focus to the National Rites of Passage Institute (NROPI) Youth Conference, which is coming this summer (July 19-21) to the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture, and discuss how rites of passage can have a positive impact on reducing violence and incarceration, and increasing academic performance among children and youth.
March 19, 2013
March 19, 2013 - Hour 1 - Blues & gospel singer and Center for Emerging Media Cultural Editor Lea Gilmore joins us for our regular segment on arts and culture. Marc and Lea talk to two Baltimore-based visual artists: Mark Cottman, owner of the Mark Cottman Gallery in Federal Hill, and Jeffrey Kent.
March 15, 2013
March 14, 2013 - Segment 1 - Manil Suri, Mathematics professor at UMBC, 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.
March 12, 2013
March 12, 2013 - Segment 4 - Listen to our interview with legendary folk singer Tom Paxton, who came through town earlier this month, and Walt Michael, founder and executive director of Common Ground on the Hill, the festival that brought Paxton to Baltimore.
March 6, 2013
March 6, 2013 - Hour 1 - We look at the other side of Lincoln, Steven Spielberg's acclaimed film that received criticism for its underdeveloped Black characters. We will explore the three Black characters featured in the film, illuminating their lives and their roles in the political struggle for freedom in America.
February 26, 2013
February 25, 2013 - Segment 3 - We look at the racial and gender dynamics of the Oscars with Jorge Rivas and Lynn Stuart Parramore.
February 20, 2013
February 20, 2013 - Segment 3 - We listen back to a discussion we recorded earlier this year about the film Django Unchained, which is up for an Academy Award this weekend. We're joined by co-host Anthony McCarthy, Janks Morton, Dr. Raymond Winbush, Keli Goff, and Farai Chideya.
February 13, 2013
February 13, 2013 - Segment 2 - We are joined by Center for Emerging Media's Cultural Correspondent and Blues/Gospel songstress Lea Gilmore, for a conversation about the Grammys. We go beyond the spectacle of who wore what and focus on the artists who won Grammys but weren't featured on the broadcast. Why were they left out? We discuss that and more with Lea.