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Archives of the show until 2018. For recent archives, go to: The Marc Steiner Show at the Real News Network

April 10, 2013
Medical Apartheid, Tuskegee Experiment
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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History Of Medical Experimentation On Black Americans

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.
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April 9, 2013
Paul and Eslanda Robeson
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Mrs. Paul Robeson’s Unconventional Life

April 9, 2013 - Hour 1 - We talk to Barbara Ransby, historian, writer, longtime activist, and Professor of African American Studies, Gender and Women's Studies, and History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, about her newest book Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson.
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April 9, 2013
The fight to integrate the U.S. military began with the Revolutionary War, says author Rawn James, Jr.
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The Double V: How Wars, Protest and Harry Truman Desegregated America’s Military

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.
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April 3, 2013
Martin Luther King Jr's Theological Influences
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Theological Influences

April 3, 2013 - Hour 1 - We honor the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s death (April 4th, 1968) one day early. We discuss two of the major influences on King's theology, Howard Thurman and Abraham Joshua Heschel.
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March 27, 2013
Historic Supreme Court Decisions
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Historic Cases In The Supreme Court: Same-Sex Marriage & Affirmative Action

March 27, 2013 - Segment 3 - We turn our attention to cases being heard at the Supreme Court. First, we discuss the hearings on the Defense of Marriage Act and California's Proposition 8, which both concern same-sex marriage. Then, we discuss two affirmative action cases being heard at the Supreme Court this session.
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March 25, 2013
Eslanda Robeson, wife of Paul Robeson
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Eslanda: The Large Unconventional Life Of Mrs. Paul Robeson

March 25, 2013 - Hour 2 - Scholar, activist, and author Barbara Ransby will talk about her latest book, Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson, a biography on the wife of famed actor and activist Paul Robeson.
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March 18, 2013
Clarence Gideon - Anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright
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50th Anniversary of the Gideon v. Wainwright Decision

March 18, 2013 - Segment 3 - We mark the 50th anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright, the Supreme Court decision that required state courts to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants who are unable to afford attorneys with Doug Colbert, Law Professor at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law and others.
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March 15, 2013
W.E.B. Du Bois
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David Levering-Lewis on W.E.B. Du Bois

March 14, 2013 - Segment 2- We return to a conversation on W.E.B. Du Bois' legacy with Dr. David Levering-Lewis, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner who authored the two-volume life and times of W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 and The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963.
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March 4, 2013
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Second Biennial Henrietta Lacks Symposium: Remembering Her Legacy

March 4, 2013 - Segment 3 - We speak with participants of the Second Biennial Henrietta Lacks Symposium: The Dignity of Difference, which is happening at the University of Maryland Medical Center on Thursday, March 7th.
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February 26, 2013
Teaching Black History in Chicago
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How Should We Teach Social Sciences In Our Schools?

February 26, 2013 - Segment 3 - We close our show with a look at the debate taking place right now in Chicago, over whether or not Black History should be taught in schools. You will hear from a roundtable of educators and historians about how social sciences are taught and how they should be taught in our schools.
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February 26, 2013
WEB Du Bois, Birthday February 23rd
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Tribute to W.E.B. Du Bois: An Introduction

February 25, 2013 - Segment 5 - We close out today's show with Dr. David Levering-Lewis, Professor of History at the New York University, two time Pulitzer Prize winner, and author of the two-volume life and times of W.E.B. Du Bois, in celebration of the birthday of W.E.B. Du Bois - February 23rd, 1868.
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February 20, 2013
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Why Gender Equality Stalled

February 20, 2013 - Segment 1 - We discuss Stephanie Coontz's recent opinion piece in the New York Times, "Why Gender Equality Stalled", which marked the 50th anniversary of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique and explored the structural challenges to gender equality today.
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February 19, 2013
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Remembering Malcolm X and Manning Marable

February 19, 2013 - Hours 1 & 2 - On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City. To remember his legacy, we bring you a panel discussion we recorded at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in May 2011 about Manning Marable, the scholar who died just days before his groundbreaking - but controversial - biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, was published. Marable's work sought to redefine Malcolm's legacy.
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