September 7, 2014
September 3, 2014 - Segment 2 - Lisa Crawley, Resource Center Manager of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American History and Culture, shares a moment in Maryland Black History with us.
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September 5, 2014
September 3, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including Fredrick Douglass' escape from slavery, the death of e.e. cummings, and the start of the Allied invasion of Italy.
September 3, 2014
September 2, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the United States Department of the Treasury was founded, the day Joseph W. Hatchett was appointed to the Florida Supreme Court, making him the first African American Supreme Court Justice in the South, and the birthday of artist Romare Bearden.
September 3, 2014
September 1, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Ethel Waters passed away, the day the first Black person graduated from the Harvard Dental School, and the day a coup d'état in the Central African Republic overthrew President David Dacko.
September 3, 2014
August 29, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Ishi emerged from the wilderness of Northeastern California, the day the Mutual Black Network was purchased by the Sheridan Broadcasting Corp., and the birthday of jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker.
September 3, 2014
August 28, 2014 - Segment 3 - We look back 50 years and remember Fannie Lou Hamer's heartrending and inspirational speech given at the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City. With: author and songwriter John Wesley, who was Fannie Lou Hamer's godson; and Dr. Peniel Joseph, Professor of History at Tufts University and author of the award-winning Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America and Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama.
September 3, 2014
August 28, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the Slavery Abolition Act, which banned slavery throughout the British Empire in 1833, the kidnapping of Emmett Till, and Martin Luther King Jr. delivering his "I Have a Dream" speech.
September 2, 2014
August 27, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day petroleum was discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania, the day W.E.B. Du Bois died, and the birthday of President Lyndon B. Johnson.
August 29, 2014
August 26, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including Liberia declaring independence, the start of the Second Chechen War, and the 19th amendment to the United States Constitution taking effect, which gave women the right to vote.
August 29, 2014
August 25, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the independence of Uruguay, the liberation of Paris from Nazi occupation, and the imprisonment of Toussaint L’ouverture.
August 22, 2014
August 22, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including a 1791 slave revolt in Saint-Domingue, which marked the beginning a 12 year revolution that led to the formation of Haiti, the killing of Irish activist and politician Michael Collins, and the murder of Huey P. Newton.
August 21, 2014
August 21, 2014 - Segment 4 - We talk with Aura Bogado, contributor to The Nation and Colorlines' News Editor and reporter, about her article: "Remembering 7 'Race Riots' That Happened Exactly 50 Years Ago."
August 21, 2014
August 21, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the Tlingit Indians destroyed Fort Selkirk, the day the Ruby Ridge Standoff began in Idaho, and the birthday of Count Basie.
August 20, 2014
August 20, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, which crushed the Prague Spring, the births of Connie Chung and H.P. Lovecraft, and the end of the Iran-Iraq war.
August 19, 2014
August 19, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day news broke on the East Coast about the gold rush in California, the day Radio Caroline was raided, and the birthday of singer and harmonica player Lynwood Slim.
August 18, 2014
August 18, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc discusses events from this day in history, including women's suffrage passing in 1920, the Battle of Britain in 1940, and the first black person graduating from the University of Mississippi in 1963.
August 17, 2014
August 15, 2014 - Segment 2 - We bring you a special archive edition of The Marc Steiner Show: The Songs That Served as the Soundtrack of the Civil Rights Movement! We hear the songs and talk to co-host Lea Gilmore, historian Dr. Bernard Lafayette, and blues singer Gaye Adegbalola.
August 17, 2014
August 15, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the Republic of the Congo gained its independence, the day the Panama Canal opened and the day Belgian painter René Magritte died.
August 14, 2014
August 14, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the things that happened on this day in history, including the US invasion of Nicaragua in 1912, the birth of Molefi Kete Asante, Afrocentrist and Professor of African Studies at Temple University, and the death of William Randolph Hearst.
August 13, 2014
August 13, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc discusses some events from this day in history, including the deaths of Florence Nightingale, HG Wells, and Julia Child, and the births of Annie Oakley, Alfred Hitchcock, and Fidel Castro. It is also the day the Central African Republic declared its independence.
August 12, 2014
August 12, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day American painter and musician Jean-Michel Basquiat died, the day Isaac Singer was granted a patent for his sewing machine, and the day South Africa was banned from the Olympic Games due to the country's racist policies.
August 12, 2014
August 11, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the start of the Watts Race Riots, the day civil rights attorney Oliver White Hill Sr. was presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Clinton, and the day the world's first roller rink opened in Rhode Island.
August 12, 2014
August 8, 2014 - Segment 3 - We look at the life and legacy of Betty Friedan, with: Stephanie Coontz, whose book, A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s, traces the impact of Friedan's seminal 1963 work, The Feminine Mystique.
August 12, 2014
August 8, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the African Baptist Church was organized in Boston, the day Janis Joplin bought a headstone for the grave of her greatest influence Bessie Smith, and the day Cesar Chavez was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton.
August 12, 2014
August 7, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day President George Washington invoked the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania, the day in 1960 Black and white students staged kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches, and the day Simón Bolívar triumphed over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá.
August 7, 2014
August 6, 2014 - Segment 2 - What does the sweet stuff you put in your coffee have to do with the French Revolution? Or the history of slavery in the Caribbean and United States? We find out in this conversation with Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos, authors of Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science.
August 6, 2014
August 6, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares come of the events that happened on this day in history, including the founding of Bogotá, Colombia, the independent of Bolivia, and the death of Rick James.
August 6, 2014
August 5, 2014 - Segment 3 - Listen in to our rebroadcast of Remembering Yuri Kochiyama, Japanese American human rights activist who died in June, with: Diane Fujino, Associate Professor and Chair of Asian American Studies and an affiliate faculty member of Black Studies at UC Santa Barbara.
August 6, 2014
August 5, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day 1,500 Iroquois attack the village of Lachine in New France, the day Nelson Mandela was jailed, and the day Marilyn Monroe died.
August 5, 2014
August 4, 2014 - Segment 4 - We have a special tribute to James Baldwin, who would have celebrated his 90th birthday on Saturday, with: Kevin Brown, owner of Station North Arts Cafe and Founder and President of the James Baldwin Literary Society; and Reginald Harris, Poetry in the Branches Coordinator and IT Director for Poets House in New York City, and Recipient of the 2012 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize for Autogeography.
August 5, 2014
August 4, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the destruction of the second ancient Jewish Temple, the arrest of Lizzie Borden, and the birth of Louis Armstrong.
August 5, 2014
August 1, 2014 - Segment 3 - We learn about the struggle of African Americans to gain freedom during the Revolutionary War, with Alan Gilbert, who talks about his book Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence.
August 5, 2014
August 1, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day slavery was abolished in the British Empire in 1834, the day of the Warsaw Uprising during World War II, and the day Puerto Rican revolutionary Lolita Lebrón passed away.
August 4, 2014
July 31, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the expulsion of Jews from Spain, Columbus landing on Trinidad, and Fidel Castro handing over power to his brother Raul.
July 30, 2014
July 30, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the city of Baltimore was founded, the day President Lincoln issued an “eye-for-eye” order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot, and the day Charles Mingus recorded his solo Piano Album ‘Mingus Plays Piano'.
July 30, 2014
July 29, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the 1968 Papal ban of the contraceptive pill, as well as all other artificial means of birth control, the birth of Kwame Toure', formerly known as Stokley Carmichael, and the death of Cass Elliot.
July 28, 2014
July 28, 2014 - Segment 1 - Today is the birthday of singer Ethel Waters, whose tough childhood didn't keep her from success.
July 25, 2014
July 24, 2014 - Segment 3 - We listen to another episode of our documentary series about the Vietnam War, Shared Weight. Today it's M*A*S*H 1969-Visions of War, Dreams of Peace. We hear the compelling stories of poet George Evans and the late author Linda Van Devanter.
July 25, 2014
July 24, 2014 - Segment 2 - We listen to another episode of our documentary series about the Vietnam War, Shared Weight. We hear Artists Born of War, where artists and writers from all sides of the Vietnam War reveal how that conflict influenced - and maybe even birthed - their work. Featured authors include: Tim O'Brien (The Things They Carried); Bao Ninh (The Sorrow of War); and Wayne Karlin (Wandering Souls: Journeys with the Dead and the Living in Viet Nam).
July 25, 2014
July 24, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the abolition of slavery in Chile, Alabama dropping rape charges against the so-called "Scottsboro Boys," and the birth of Barry Bonds.
July 25, 2014
July 23, 2014 - Segment 3 - We listen in to a special broadcast of another episode of our documentary about the Vietnam War, Shared Weight. In this episode, The Gilchrest Brothers, you will hear the heart-rendering story of the Gilchrest brothers
July 25, 2014
July 23, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the creation of the Province of Canada, the validation of African American citizenship through the 14th amendment, and the launch of anti-Chinese riots in San Francisco. It is also the day Amy Winehouse died in 2011.
July 23, 2014
July 22, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the births of Emma Lazarus and George Clinton, the death of Errico Malatesta, and 1946 King David Hotel bombing, when a Zionist underground organization, the Irgun, bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, site of the civil administration and military headquarters for Mandate Palestine, resulting in 91 deaths.
July 23, 2014
July 21, 2014 - Segment 3 - We continue listening back to our series on the Vietnam American War, Shared Weight. In this segment, we meet Woody Cuury, a veteran from the Baltimore ghetto, who talks about how he survived the despair of war and transformed himself.
July 22, 2014
July 21, 2014 - Segment 2 - We listen back to our series on the Vietnam American War, Shared Weight. Two young soldiers meet on a jungle trail, one lives, one dies. Their fates are connected for 40 years. This is the story of Homer Steedly, and the journal of the young soldier he killed.
July 22, 2014
July 21, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the publication of the first daily Black newspaper, The New Orleans Tribune, in 1864, the births of Don Knotts, Ernest Hemingway, and Marshall McLuhan, and the death of Robert Burns.
July 22, 2014
July 18, 2014 - Segment 2 - We rebroadcast our special two-hour tribute to Nelson Mandela, who passed away last week at the age of 95. You will hear from a vast array of guests from around the globe – some of whom fought with Mandela in the struggle to end Apartheid – who will discuss the life and legacy of this legendary international leader and fighter for justice.
July 22, 2014
July 18, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including Detroit declaring bankruptcy in 2013, the births of Screamin' Jay Hawkins and M.I.A., and the deaths of Mimi Fariña and Jane Austen.
July 17, 2014
July 17, 2013 - Segment 3 - We look at the first national strike in the U.S., which took place right here in Baltimore, with Bill Barry, retired Director of Labor Studies at CCBC, who joins me to talk about his new book The 1877 Railroad Strike in Baltimore.
July 17, 2014
July 17, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day of the 1771 Bloody Falls Massacre, the birthday of Frank Snowden, foremost scholar on blacks in ancient history, and 1967 race riot in Cairo, Illinois.