October 8, 2013
October 8, 2013 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the birthdays of members of The Drifters, Redbone and The Impressions.
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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 20, 2013
September 20, 2013 - Hours 1 & 2 - We broadcast of an evocative discussion that Marc moderated Tuesday night at the 2640 Space in Baltimore, on the commercialization of U.S. elections. The discussion was centered on the book Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America.
September 13, 2013
September 12, 2013 - Segment 1 - We reflect on our history and the present moment with a conversation looking at the US and the world from September 11th to Syria.
September 5, 2013
September 5, 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.
September 5, 2013
September 4, 2013 - Segment 2 - We launch our new series on three major urban centers facing post-industrial challenges, Baltimore-Detroit-Oakland, with Center for Emerging Media Scholar-in-Residence, Dr. Lester Spence. Baltimore-Detroit-Oakland features historians and activists from the three cities in dialogue with one another.
September 1, 2013
August 30, 2013 - Segment 3 - Larry Gibson, law professor from the University of Maryland Carey School of Law and noted political strategist, joins us to 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 and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
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 1 - We start our show commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and remembering Emmett Till, who was murdered 58 years ago today.
August 23, 2013
August 23, 2013 - Segment 1 - A host a special multi-generational roundtable of activists reflecting on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.
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 15, 2013
August 15, 2013 - Segment 4 - We remember the anniversary of the 1945 bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with elin o'Hara slavick, professor of Visual Art, Theory and Practice at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of Bomb After Bomb: A Violent Cartography and After Hiroshima.
August 14, 2013
August 14, 2013 - Segment 1 - We have a conversation on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, which will be commemorated with an event on August 24th in Washington, DC.
August 12, 2013
August 12, 2013 - Segment 2 - Last week NIH announced an agreement with the family of Henrietta Lacks - whose cells were collected and used for research, without her knowledge or permission, by Johns Hopkins University over 50 years ago - that will finally give them recognition and some degree of control over how the genome of these important cells is used.
August 12, 2013
August 9, 2013 - Segment 2 - As we look to the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, we talk with author William P. Jones about his book The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights.
August 6, 2013
August 6, 2013 - Segment 1 - We begin our show with a reflection on the anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Our panel of guests will discuss the legacy of the Voting Rights Act and the state of voting rights in 2013, especially in light of the recent Supreme Court decision that struck down core components of the Act.
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 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 16, 2013
We commemorate the 50th anniversary of the desegregation of Cambridge, Maryland by talking to residents who share their memories of the struggle for civil rights on the Eastern Shore.
July 8, 2013
July 5, 2013 - Hour 1 - We rebroadcast our interview with Olympian and human rights activist John Carlos and David Zirin, co-author of The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment that Changed the World.
July 8, 2013
July 4, 2013 - Segment 5 - We close out the show with my interview with the late Howard Zinn, historian, activist, and writer, who passed away in 2010. Best known for A People's History of the United States, Zinn last appeared on The Marc Steiner Show on November 18, 2009.
July 8, 2013
July 4, 2013 - Segment 4 - A roundtable of guests discuss the 50th anniversary of the integration of Gwynn Oak Amusement Park, leading up to an event this Sunday, July 7, "Opening the Gates: Celebrate the Gwynn Oak Amusement Park 50 Years Later."
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.
July 8, 2013
July 4, 2013 - Segment 1 - We begin the July 4th celebration with Koli Tengella, who talks about the meaning of July 4th through Frederick Douglass' 1852 speech, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"
July 2, 2013
July 2, 2013 - Segment 3 - In the latest episode of Sound Bites, we reflect on Paula Deen and southern cuisine, the Supreme Court's decision that impacts sustainable development, slave labor and shrimp, and the Farm Alliance of Baltimore City.
July 2, 2013
July 2, 2013 - Segment 1 - We begin our morning with Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Sherrilyn will offer her analysis and insight about last week's Supreme Court rulings on affirmative action and voting rights.
July 1, 2013
July 1, 2013-Segment 3-Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Leonard Pitts, Jr. discusses his compelling new novel, Freeman.
June 27, 2013
June 27, 2013 - Segment 3 - We discuss the philosophy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his relevance as a thinker-activist today.
June 21, 2013
June 21, 2013 - Segment 4 - We close out the show with Lawrence Brown, assistant professor of public health at Morgan State University, and political activist Jude Lombardi talking about gentrification and displacement in Baltimore.
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 2 - We turn to a conversation about black nationalism and its role in the political and cultural landscape today with Dr. Lester Spence, John Wesley, and Dr. Jeff Menzise.
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.
June 18, 2013
June 18, 2013 - Segment 1 - We look back on this day in history, which includes the start of the War of 1812 and the date the 54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry attacked Fort Wagner, S.C.
June 14, 2013
June 14, 2013 - Segment 1 - We look back on this day in history, which includes the day Ethel Waters became the first black woman on television and the day Caribbean-American poet June Jordan passed away in 2002.
June 12, 2013
June 12, 2013 - Segment 4 - we commemorate the passing of Dr. Homer Favor as we listen back to a very special conversation with original members of the Goon Squad, legendary civil rights activists from Baltimore.
June 12, 2013
June 12, 2013 - Segment 1 - We mark the 50th anniversary of civil rights leader Medgar Evers' assassination. We're joined by Ray Winbush and John Wesley.
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.
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 20, 2013
May 20, 2013 - Segment 3 - Yesterday was the anniversary of Malcolm X's birth, who would have turned 88. We host a conversation about Malcolm X's legacy and his relevance for today with Paul Coates, Kevin Alexander Gray, Frederick Harris, and Jared Ball.
May 17, 2013
May 17, 2013 - Segment 4 - We close our show with a fascinating tour through Mt. Auburn Cemetery, the oldest African American cemetery in Baltimore, for which a 7-year restoration process was recently completed under the direction of Morgan State University (MSU).
May 9, 2013
May 8, 2013 - Segment 1 - We host a conversation about the current state of the labor movement. We look at local organizing in Baltimore around living wages and fair development and talk about the 45th anniversary of the Poor People's Campaign.
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 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.
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 24, 2013
April 24, 2013 - Segment 3 - We turn to an important piece of Baltimore Civil Rights history as we talk with filmmaker Pete O'Neal about his new documentary, All the King's Horses: The Story of Gwynn Oak Park. The film explores the struggle in the 1960s to desegregate Baltimore's Gwynn Oak Park.
April 24, 2013
April 22, 2013 -Segment 3, We talk with Carol Williams, Senior International Affairs Writer for the LA Times, about Chechnyan history and politics.
April 11, 2013
April 11, 2013 - Hour 2 - Jeanne Theoharis joins us to speak about her new book The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. The book is the first critical biography of Parks, and it is revealing and comprehensive, exploring her activism before, during, and after her famous act of protest in 1955.
April 11, 2013
April 11, 2013 - Hour 1 - Michael Higginbotham joins us to speak about his latest book, Ghosts of Jim Crow: Ending Racism in Post-Racial America. The book explores how laws and systemic prejudice have maintained racial hierarchy and separation, both historically and today.