June 23, 2014
June 20, 2014 - Segment 3 - We talk with Paul Jay, CEO and Senior Editor of The Real News Network, about the Grand Opening of The Real News Media Center in Baltimore this weekend.
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June 17, 2014
June 13, 2014 - Hour 2 - Hear our broadcast of the most recent World of the Play event at Everyman Theatre. The topic of the conversation, which took place on Saturday, June 7, was "Finding a Voice." The discussion was spurred by the current production Tribes, a play centered on a young deaf man's struggle to be heard in his dysfunctional family.
June 12, 2014
June 12, 2013 - Segment 4 - It's another Cultural Crossroads with Lea Gilmore. The award-winning musician, singer, Center for Emerging Media Cultural Editor joins us for our monthly look at Arts & Culture. We will also shine a spotlight on the Father's Day Father & Son Celebration at An Die Musik.
June 12, 2014
June 12, 2014 - Segment 2 - We Celebrate Caribbean-American Heritage Month with the Reginald F. Lewis Museum! Our guests include: Dr. Annette Palmer, Chairperson, Department of History and Geography, Morgan State University; and Helen Yuen, Marketing Director at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American History and Culture. This weekend's activities at the Museum will include a Caribbean DJ, steel drum band, film, crafts, and more.
May 30, 2014
May 30, 2014 - Segment 4 - 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. We hear the voices of young people involved in the visual and performing arts, as well as their instructors and parents, about what it means to have this center in their neighborhood.
May 28, 2014
May 27, 2014 - Segment 4 - In a new segment of our series about the food we eat, Sound Bites, we broadcast the second part of a fascinating and inspiring panel discussion and town hall meeting held two weeks ago at Pleasant Hope Baptist Church in Baltimore. The meeting is part of a series called Good Food Gatherings, produced in conjunction with Johns Hopkins' Center for Livable Future Food & Faith Project and Interfaith Power & Light.
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 3, 2014
May 1, 2014 - Segment 4 - We have our regular segment on health and fitness with fitness trainer and activist Chauncey Whitehead and Ernestine Shepherd, the world's oldest female bodybuilder.
May 1, 2014
April 30, 2014 - Segment 4 - We discuss Mother To Mother: Let the Healing Begin: Ending the Murder and Violence in Our Communities, an event hosted by Institute of the Black World 21st Century. The event will take place Friday, May 2, at 7:00pm at the Real News Media Center, 235 Holliday Street, Baltimore.
May 1, 2014
April 30, 2014 - Segment 3 - International Workers' Day, traditionally a day to celebrate the accomplishments of labor and the workers, is May 1. This year May Day will bring protests across the country on behalf of immigrant rights and immigration reform.
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 25, 2014
April 25, 2014 - Segment 2 - We meet Fleet Maull, meditation teacher, who will be leading a workshop this weekend at Morgan State University called: Awakened Leadership: Community Engagement Practices for Creating Enlightened Society.
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 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 17, 2014 - Segment 5 - We speak with fitness trainer and activist Chauncey Whitehead and Ernestine Shepherd, the world's oldest female bodybuilder. They are joined by Rhonda Silva, Division Administrator of the Baltimore City Cancer Program (BCCP) at the University of Maryland's Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center.
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 4, 2014
April 4, 2014 - Segment 3 - We check in with Darriel Harris, Program Officer of the Baltimore Food and Faith Project at the Johns Hopkins Center For a Livable Future, about their upcoming series of town hall meetings, in partnership with Interfaith Power & Light,Good Food Gatherings.
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 3 - Congressman Elijah Cummings joins us to discuss signing up for coverage under the Affordable Care Act and to promote the Health Insurance Enrollment Fair, this Saturday, March 29, 9:00am to 4:00pm at the Baltimore Convention Center. March 31st is the last day to sign up under open enrollment in the Maryland Health Connection.
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 25, 2014
March 21, 2014 - Segment 5 - It's that time of year again: stay tuned for our segment on MoneyPower Day, an important free financial fitness fair, co-sponsored by MECU and the Baltimore CASH Campaign, filled with activities designed to inspire and inform people of all ages and income levels on how to boost their financial knowledge.
March 25, 2014
March 21, 2014 - Segment 4 - We move closer to home, to talk about a new mentoring program at Big Brothers, Big Sisters of the Greater Chesapeake (BBBSGC). Our guests will be:Terry Hickey, CEO of BBBSGC; and Dr. Eric Rosser, Vice President of Service Delivery at BBBSGC.
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 13, 2014
March 13, 2014 - Segment 4 - We close out the show with Dr. Bill Thomas, visionary and internationally recognized expert on aging. On April 2, Thomas' Second Wind Tour, a Two Act "non-fiction" theatrical performance inspired by his new book Second Wind: Navigating the Passage to a Slower, Deeper, and More Connected Life, comes to Baltimore's Hippodrome.
February 12, 2014
February 12, 2014 - Segment 4 - Award-winning Baltimore author Ericka Blount Danois talks about her book Love, Peace, and Soul: Behind the Scenes of America's Favorite Dance Show Soul Train: Classic Moments.
February 6, 2014
February 6, 2014 - Segment 3 - Dr. Cheryl LaRoche, archaeologist and lecturer in the American Studies Department at the University of Maryland, College Park, talks about her fascinating new book Free Black Communities & the Underground Railroad: The Geography of Resistance that explores how the free black community assisted the escapes of enslaved runaways in three Midwest communities.
January 31, 2014
January 30, 2014 - Segment 4 - We close out the show with a special treat, when Rebecca Alban Hoffberger, Founder of the American Visionary Art Museum, joins us to talk about AVAM's current exhibit and its 2014 Gala Celebration honoring Ray Kurzweil, to be held Thursday night!
January 30, 2014
January 29, 2014 - Segment 5 - We preview the 2nd Charm City Langston Hughes Literary Forum and Book Fair, which will take place Saturday, February 1, at the New Shiloh Baptist Church, with historian Lou Fields and law professor Larry Gibson.
January 30, 2014
January 29, 2014 - Segment 4 - We talk with Ras Tre Subira, Executive Director of Black Mission Media and Director at HABESHA, Inc., about The Griot's Eye Youth Film and Culture Festival, which will be held this Saturday, February 1, at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum.
January 28, 2014
January 28, 2014 - Segment 3 - We sit down to talk with bestselling author, award-winning filmmaker, hip-hop artist, and professor MK Asante about his memoir Buck. Asante will be speaking Wednesday night at Red Emma's.
January 23, 2014
January 22, 2014 - Segment 4 - Baltimore City Paper Senior Editor Baynard Woods joins us for our weekly look at what's in this issue of the City Paper.
January 18, 2014
January 17, 2014 - Segment 3 - We close out the week with a conversation Marc hosted last week at the Enoch Pratt Free Library with husband and wife political commentators James Carville and Mary Matalin, about their new book, Love and War: Twenty Years, Three Presidents, Two Daughters, and One Louisiana Home. You will hear this power couple talk about his ADHD, her love of stray cats, and more!
January 16, 2014
January 15, 2014 - Segment 5 - Baynard Woods, Senior Editor of Baltimore’s City Paper, joins us to talk about what's in this week's issue of the City Paper.
January 9, 2014
January 9, 2014 - Segment 3 - Baynard Woods, Senior Editor of Baltimore's City Paper, shares his New Year's resolutions for the city and talks about what's happening in the City Paper this week.
December 5, 2013
December 4, 2013 - Segment 4 - Baltimore City Paper Senior Editor Baynard Woods joins us for a weekly update on what's in this week's issue of the City Paper.
November 25, 2013
November 22, 2013 - Segment 3 - We're launching another new series today called The World of the Play. Marc is moderating a panel at Everyman Theatre for every play this season, and the first one happened last weekend. The panel was about the play currently showing at Everyman Theatre, Red, about the painter Mark Rothko and his assistant. The panelists are: Kristen Hileman, Curator at the Baltimore Museum of Art; Donald Hicken, Director of Red; and Daniel Ettinger, Scenic Designer of Red.
November 20, 2013
November 19, 2013 - Segment 3 - This week on Sound Bites, we look at the Maryland Department of Agriculture's decision to withdraw proposed phosphorus management regulations. We also hear about a community event taking place at Whitelock Community Farm in Baltimore's Reservoir Hill neighborhood, and hear a recipe for sweet potato biscuits from Damian Mosley of Blacksauce Kitchen.
November 19, 2013
November 14, 2013 - Segment 4 - We close out our show at 10:30 with a discussion on an important movie that will be shown Thursday night at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Free Angela and All Political Prisoners. We will talk with Jarvis Tyner, long time friend of Angela Davis, Executive Vice-Chair of the Communist Party USA and founding member of the Black Radical Congress.
November 19, 2013
November 14, 2013 - Segment 3 - We talk with historian, writer, appraiser and collector Dr. Philip J. Merrill about an exhibit at Baltimore's Reginald F. Lewis Museum, The Kinsey Collection: Shared Treasures of Bernard & Shirley Kinsey - Where Art & History Intersect.
November 7, 2013
November 6, 2013 - Segment 4 - Baltimore City Paper Senior Editor Baynard Woods joins us for an update on what's in the City Paper this week, including a feature, "HOT GREASE: The high-powered hunt is on for slippery thieves who steal restaurants’ used cooking oil,"
October 31, 2013
October 31, 2013 - Segment 2 - We bring you a special musical treat – Baltimore’s First Lady of Jazz Ethel Ennis will be in-studio along with her husband, writer and former Baltimore Sun reporter Earl Arnett, and pianist, songwriter, producer, and Baltimore native Cyrus Chestnut.
October 31, 2013
October 30, 2013 - Segment 3 - Family members of Tyrone West, a man killed by the police on July 18th, join us again to talk about their search for answers from the Medical Examiners Office and the Baltimore Police Department.
October 30, 2013
October 30, 2013 - Segment 3 - We hear the voices of participants of the Healthcare Justice March that took place in Baltimore Saturday, interviewed by former Steiner Show producer Cricket Arrison. We hear from Sergio Espana, the statewide organizer for Healthcare is a Human Right-Maryland, as well as speakers from the healthcare rally before the march, some of the participants at the march, and the amazing beats of the Baltimore Christian Warriors Marching Band.