April 4, 2014
April 4, 2014 - Segment 4 - Friday marks the 46th anniversary of the death of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and we take time to reflect on Dr. King's legacy, with: the Rev. Dr. Brad Braxton and Dr. Peniel Joseph.
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April 4, 2014
April 4, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the establishment of NATO, the birth of Muddy Waters and Jill Scott, and the death of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. and Rev. Martin Luther King. Jr.
April 4, 2014
April 3, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Ras Tafari was proclaimed Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, the day President Harry S. Truman signed the Marshall Plan into law, and the birthday of the"Mother of the Blues," Ma Rainey.
April 1, 2014
March 28, 2014 - Segment 4 - We close the show with a fascinating discussion with award-winning historian and Professor of History and Art History at Columbia University Simon Schama on his latest book - which is now a documentary series running on PBS -The Story of the Jews.
March 27, 2014
March 27, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about some of what happened on this day in history, including the death of Milton Berle, the surrender of Geronimo, and the eruption of Mount St. Helens.
March 27, 2014
March 26, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened in this day in history, including the day African Americans fought in the first armed rebellion against British authority in the colonies, the birthday of playwright Tennessee Williams, and the day Easy-E died.
March 26, 2014
March 25, 2014 - Segment 2 - This day in history marks the arrival of the Ark and the Dove at St. Clement’s Island (now St. Mary’s County, MD). Mathias de Sousa was an early African settler w ho arrived with these colonists.
March 26, 2014
March 25, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the discovery of Saturn's largest moon, the first settlers arriving in Maryland, and United States Customs seizing copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on the grounds of obscenity in 1957.
March 25, 2014
March 24, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including Argentina's Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice, the day slavery was abolished in Venezuela, and the day Ida B. Wells-Barnett passed away.
March 25, 2014
March 21, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including Persian New Year, the Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa, and the birthday of the king of king of rock & soul, Solomon Burke.
March 20, 2014
March 20, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Einstein's 1916 publication of his theory of relativity, and Dr. Ralph Bunche's 1950 reception of the Nobel Peace Prize for his work as a mediator in the Palestine crisis. He is the first African American to be so honored.
March 19, 2014
March 19, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the birthday of William Tucker, the first African child born in the colonies, the day Cuban leader Fidel Castro stepped down forty-nine years after taking power in an armed revolution, and the day saxophonist Ornette Coleman passed away.
March 19, 2014
March 18, 2014 - Segment 2 - We talk to Dr. Peniel E. Joseph, about the life & legacy of Stokely Carmichael. Dr. Joseph is a Professor of History at Tufts University, Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at Tufts, and author of the biography, Stokely: A Life.
March 18, 2014
March 18, 2014 - Segment 1 - We start the show with a look at some of the events that happened on this day in history, including two hundred African Americans leaving Savannah, Georgia, for Liberia in 1895, the 1982 car crash that severely injured soul singer Teddy Pendergrass' spinal cord, and the birth of Queen Latifah, American rapper and actress.
March 17, 2014
March 17, 2014 - Segment 3 - This day in history marks the birth of Ida Rebecca Cummings, an educator and pioneering clubwoman. Born in Baltimore, Cummings was a school teacher who advocated for improved conditions in housing and health care for the poor.
March 17, 2014
March 17, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the National Gallery of Art opened in Washington, DC, the day a referendum to end apartheid in South Africa was passed, and the day Saint Patrick, Irish missionary and bishop, died.
March 16, 2014
March 14, 2014 - Segment 3 - We remember Leo Bretholz, who died last Friday at the age of 93. Coming of age in Nazi-occupied Austria, Bretholz escaped from German imprisonment seven times in seven years, including leaping from a train bound for Auschwitz. Longtime journalist Michael Olesker pays tribute to this inspirational man who dedicated his life to fighting for justice. Olesker co-authored a book with Bretholz about Bretholz's life, Leap into Darkness: Seven Years on the Run in Wartime Europe. Olesker's most recent book is Front Stoops in the Fifties: Baltimore Legends Come of Age.
March 16, 2014
March 14, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc reflects on some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the deaths of Fannie Lou Hamer and Karl Marx, and the birth of Quincy Jones.
March 13, 2014
March 13, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about some of what happened on this day in history, including the day Pope Francis was elected in the papal conclave to succeed Pope Benedict XVI, the day the planet Uranus was discovered in 1781, and the day Susan B. Anthony died.
March 13, 2014
March 12, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the day Benjamin Banneker and Pierre Charles L'Enfant were commissioned to lay out the District of Columbia, the day Malcolm X resigned from the Nation of Islam, and the day African-American children's author Virginia Hamilton was born.
March 11, 2014
March 11, 2014 - Segment 3 - This week on Sound Bites, we begin with Joel Salatin, full-time alternative farmer in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. Then, we visit Baltimore's Liam Flynn's Ale House to talk about Open Plough and their new food menu. We close out the show with Ann Vileisis, author of Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes from and Why We Need to Get It Back.
March 11, 2014
March 11, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day "Raisin In The Sun" opened at Barrymore Theater, the birthday of accordion player Lawrence Welk, and the birthday of singer Patty Waters.
March 10, 2014
March 10, 2014 - Web Exclusive - This day in history marks the life of Rev. David Smith. This early AME pastor was born enslaved in the vicinity of Baltimore County in the late 18th century and later became a minister in the AME Church.
March 10, 2014
March 10, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the first successful telephone call was made, the day Harriet Tubman died, and the day Daisy Lampkin, founder of the National Council of Negro Women, died.
March 10, 2014
March 7, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the birth of Thomas Aquinas, Bloody Sunday, when civil rights marchers in Alabama were brutally attacked by police and deputized citizens, the death of Baltimore-born drag queen and actor Divine, and the death of labor organizer Lucy Parsons.
March 7, 2014
March 6, 2014 - Segment 3 - March is Women's History Month, and in celebration of women writers, I talk with Deborah Johnson and Sujata Massey, the authors of two fascinating new historical novels. Johnson's book, The Secret of Magic, tells the story of a young black female attorney working with Thurgood Marshall, and Massey's book, The Sleeping Dictionary, is an historical romance set during India's struggle for independence.
March 7, 2014
March 6, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the Missouri Compromise was signed into law, the day the Dred Scott decision was made, and the day Georgia O' Keeffe died.
March 5, 2014
March 5, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the Boston Massacre, when five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are killed by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War five years later.
March 5, 2014
March 4, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about some of what happened on this day in history, including the day Christopher Columbus arrived back in Portugal with slaves, the day the Massachusetts Bay Colony was granted a Royal charter, and the day Fannie Barrier Williams passed away.
March 3, 2014
March 3, 2014 - Segment 3 - Institutional racism is something we hear a lot about, but something that is not often enough defined. We look at its definition and historical roots, especially as they relate to today.
March 3, 2014
March 3, 2014 - Segment 1 - We hear from Ellen Cassedy about her new book, We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust. It won the Grub Street National Book Prize for Nonfiction, the Towson Prize for Literature, and more. You don't want to miss this fascinating conversation.
March 2, 2014
February 28, 2014 - Segment 4 - We listen back to an interview with poet Ethelbert Miller about the legacy of Gil Scott-Heron, the great poet, author, musician and godfather of rap.
February 28, 2014
February 28, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including a slave revolt in Long Island, NY, the day Richard Wright's Native Son was published, and the day Frankie Lymon was found dead.
February 27, 2014
February 27, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the death of singer Frankie Lymon, the Supreme Court ruling that the 19th amendment, which gave women the right to vote, was constitutional, and the 1933 Reichstag fire, when Nazis burned Germany's parliament building in Berlin, a crucial moment in their rise to power.
February 26, 2014
February 26, 2014 - Segment 3 - Wednesday is the second anniversary of the tragic shooting death of Trayvon Martin, our panel addresses revisits Trayvon's death and examines where we have come as a society since that day. We also reflect on the death of Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba.
February 26, 2014
February 26, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about some of what happened on this day in history, including the day the Fifteenth Amendment guaranteeing the right to vote was sent to the states for ratification, the birthday of singer Erykah Badu, and the second anniversary of the death of Trayvon Martin.
February 25, 2014
February 25, 2014 - Segment 1 - We start the show with this day in history, February the 25th. Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including Muhammad Ali defeating Sonny Liston for the world heavyweight boxing championship, Hiram R. Revels of Mississippi being sworn in as first Black U.S. senator and first Black representative in Congress, and the birth of George Harrison, the lead guitar player for the Beatles.
February 24, 2014
February 24, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about some of what happened on this day in history, including the Supreme Court's Marbury v. Madison decision, the day the United States acquired Guantanamo Bay from Cuba, and the day Rebecca Lee Crumpler became the first black woman to receive an M.D. degree.
February 22, 2014
February 21, 2014 - Segment 4 - What is Malcolm X's legacy today? Writer and political analyst Dedrick Muhammad joins Marc to co-host this hour.
February 22, 2014
February 21, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the publishing of The Communist Manifesto, the birthday of Nina Simone, and the day Malcolm X was assassinated.
February 21, 2014
February 20, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc looks back at some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the establishment of the US Postal Service, Jimi Hendrix's stage debut, the death of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, and the birth of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain.
February 20, 2014
February 19, 2014 - Segment 4 - Craig Steven Wilder, author of Ebony & Ivy: The Secret History of How Slavery Helped Build America’s Elite Colleges, joins us to talk about the legacy of slavery in the Ivy League.
February 19, 2014
February 19, 2014 - Segment 2 - Marc interviews Anne Draddy, the head of the TreeBaltimore Program about her work and the history of Druid Hill Park. The interview is followed by a rebroadcast of a segment we did in 2008 about the integration of the Druid Hill Park tennis courts when 62 years ago, eight white, black and Jewish tennis players integrated the tennis courts at Druid Hill Park.
February 19, 2014
February 19, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about some of what happened on this day in history, including the meeting of W.E.B. DuBois' Pan-African Congress, the publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, and the birthdays of Smokey Robinson and Bobby Rogers from The Miracles.
February 18, 2014
February 18, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the first formal protest against slavery by an organized white body, the birthday of poet and activist Audre Lorde, and the day leader of the Protestant Reformation Martin Luther died.
February 17, 2014
February 17, 2014 - Hour 1 - Larry S. Gibson, law professor from the University of Maryland Carey School of Law and noted political strategist will discuss his book Young Thurgood: The Making of a Supreme Court Justice. Gibson's book focuses on the early life of the civil rights icon.
February 15, 2014
February 14, 2014 - Segment - As part of our Valentine's Day special, I talk to award-winning journalist Betty DeRamus about her fascinating book, Forbidden Fruit: Love Stories from the Underground Railroad. The book tells the largely untold tales of ordinary men and women who faced mobs, bloodhounds, bounty hunters, and bullets to be together -- and defy a system that categorized blacks not only as servants, but as property.
February 15, 2014
February 14, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about some of what happened on this day in history, including the death of Roman bishop and martyr Saint Valentine, the day that Oregon and Arizona became states, and the day Mamie Smith became the first Black woman to make a record.
February 15, 2014
February 13, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about some of what happened on this day in history, including the day poet Lucille Clifton died, the day the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was organized, and the day the last original "Peanuts" comic strip appeared in newspapers the day after Charles M. Schulz died.
February 12, 2014
February 12, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including National Freedom to Marry Day, Congress' first passage of the Fugitive Slave Law, and the birthday of President Abraham Lincoln.