September 28, 2016
September 28, 2016 - Segment 2 We check in on the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, which opened this weekend.
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September 27, 2016
September 22, 2016 - Segment 2 - We listen back to a special archive edition of our show: Marc's interview with Studs Terkel on his book And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey.
September 27, 2016
September 22, 2016 - Segment 1 - We speak with author and oral historian Alan Wieder, about his new book Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, but Mostly Conversation.
September 9, 2016
September 9, 2016 - Segment 4 - Marc interviews Dr. Manisha Sinha, Professor and Graduate Program Director of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is author of the new book The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition.
September 2, 2016
September 2, 2016 - Segment 2 - I host an interview with historian and author Dr. Nancy Isenberg about her new book White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America. Dr. Isenberg is the T. Harry Williams Professor of History at Louisiana State University.
July 24, 2016
July 22, 2016 - Segment 3 - On the show we preview an upcoming event at Baltimore's Reginald F. Lewis Museum: Fades and Fellowship.
July 21, 2016
July 21, 2016 - Segment 2 - It's a Philosopher's Roundtable on topics to include policing and the current attack on #BlackLivesMatter, with: Dr. Robert Birt, Navasha Daya, and Denzel Mitchell.
July 15, 2016
July 15, 2016 - Segment 4 - Scholar and author Charles Johnson talks about the 25th anniversary of his National Book-award winning novel Middle Passage.
July 15, 2016
July 15, 2016 - Segment 2 - I interview historian and author Dr. Nancy Isenberg on her new book White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America. Dr. Isenberg is the T. Harry Williams Professor of History at Louisiana State University.
June 16, 2016
June 15, 2016 - Segment 1 - I interview Dr. Manisha Sinha, Professor and Graduate Program Director of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is author of the amazing new bookThe Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition.
June 10, 2016
June 10, 2016 - Segment 1 - We host the newest edition of our weekly segment Tengella's Take with Koli Tengella. Koli is President of Tengella Edutainment, an instructor and creator of the Positive Social Change Performing Arts Program at Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts High School, and he was a 2010 Open Society Institute Fellow.
June 9, 2016
June 9, 2016 - Segment 2 - We close the first hour with an archive edition of our show that is very relevant in light of today's electoral climate: My 2012 interview with Jim Lehrer about his book Tension City: Inside the Presidential Debates from Kennedy-Nixon to McCain-Obama.
June 3, 2016
June 3, 2016 - Segment 4 - We host a special archive edition of The Marc Steiner Show, my interview with Baltimore author Arthur Magida about his book The Nazi Séance: The Strange Story of the Jewish Psychic in Hitler's Circle.
June 1, 2016
May 31, 2016 - Segment 3 - Will you watch the premiere of the new Roots series tonight? We discuss the remake of the groundbreaking series with: Dr. Lester Spence, David Zurawik, and Carla Wills.
May 25, 2016
May 25, 2016 - Segment 2 - We host an interview with Joe Tropea, Digital Projects Coordinator for the Maryland Historical Society, offers a preview of an event happening Wednesday evening (May 25, 2016) at Red Emma's 2640 Space.
May 23, 2016
May 20, 2016 - Segment 1 - I interview Dr. Manisha Sinha, who is the author of the amazing new book The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition.
May 19, 2016
May 19, 2016 - Segment 2 - We turn to a conversation about Black nationalism and its role in the political and cultural landscape today. Our guests include: Dr. Lester Spence, John Wesley, and Dr. Jeff Menzise.
May 19, 2016
May 19, 2016 - Segment 1 - This semester's radio series, Downtown Voices, features UMBC students talking to city dwellers about their thoughts on the past, present, and future of Baltimore. Today you will hear "The Uprising," a snapshot of the movement that developed in the wake of Freddie Gray's death, and the effect it has had on our city.
May 19, 2016
May 18, 2016 - Segment 3 - We turn to politics with a discussion on Bernie Sanders, Race and Black Folks. With: Kalima Young and Marshall "Eddie" Conway.
May 19, 2016
May 17, 2016 - Segment 3 - We talk with Minister Carlos Muhammad about Community Policing in Baltimore. Minister Carlos Muhammad is the Baltimore representative for Minister Louis Farrakhan and Student Minister for Muhammad Mosque Number 6 in Baltimore.
May 13, 2016
May 13, 2016 - Segment 4 - We host a special remembrance of Father Daniel Berrigan who died last week. With: Brendan Walsh, co-founder of Viva House; and Liz McAlister, co-founder of Jonah House.
May 13, 2016
May 10, 2016 - Segment 1 - We begin the show with Episode 2 of The World That Brought Us Freddie Gray, a 5-part radio documentary produced by students at the UMBC. Episode 2 looks at how policing and police-community relations are part of the story.
May 13, 2016
May 12, 2016 - Segment 1 - We host Part 4 of The World That Brought Us Freddie Gray, a 5-part radio documentary produced by students at UMBC. Episode 4 focuses on issues connected to housing.
May 6, 2016
May 6, 2016 - Segment 3 - We continue with Baltimore Uprising, One Year Later, with a rebroadcast of a piece we produced a year ago, featuring the voices of people at protests during the Uprising.
May 6, 2016
May 5, 2016 - Segment 2 - We continue our feature Baltimore Uprising: One Year Later, as Steiner Show producer Mark Gunnery interviews Jean Albert Renaud in a conversation about the 1968 riots. Renaud is a former Motown artist, horseman, wild Mustang rancher, and founder of Protect Yourself 1 and Project Arrowhead, two programs for at-risk youth.
May 2, 2016
May 2, 2016 - Segment 1 - We begin the show with a brief reflection on the life of poet and activist Fr. Daniel J. Berrigan, who died on Saturday at the age of 94. Berrigan was one of the "Catonsville Nine" and a leader of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
April 29, 2016
April 29, 2016 - Segment 3 - We have a conversation with Ali Issa, national field organizer for War Resisters League, about his book "Against All Odds: Voices of Popular Struggle in Iraq."
April 29, 2016
April 29, 2016 - Segment 2 - We talk with Ron Cassie, Senior Editor of Baltimore Magazine, about his in-depth and thought-provoking article "A Tale of Two Cities: For half a century, West Baltimore was a vital center of black culture, mixed-income neighborhoods, and groundbreaking civil rights activism. After Freddie Gray, can it be again?"
April 29, 2016
April 27, 2016 - Segment 3 - We host the most recent episode of Baltimore Uprising, One Year Later. With: Malaika Aminata Clements, Ericka Alston, Dr. Karsonya "Kaye" Whitehead.
April 29, 2016
April 26, 2016 - Segment 1 - We host a special hour-long tribute to Prince, who died last week at the age of 57. With: Carla Wills, Kalima Young, Dr. Lester Spence, and Steve Parke.
April 14, 2016
April 13, 2016 - Segment 2 - We host a rebroadcast of "Symbols of the Confederacy," about Baltimore's statuary honoring the Confederacy. Our panel of guests includes: Zoë Carpenter, Yoni Appelbaum, Chris Roberts, Dr. Tara Bynum, and Evan Serpick.
April 14, 2016
April 13, 2016 - Segment 2 - We host a conversation with Dr. David Pilgrim. He is a professor, orator, and human rights activist best known as the founder and curator of the Jim Crow Museum. We talk about his book Understanding Jim Crow: Using Racist Memorabilia to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice.
April 8, 2016
April 8th, 2016 - Segment 2 - We play a segment of our project: Baltimore Uprising, One Year Later, we talk with cellist, artist, and Baker Artist Award recipient Paul Rucker about history, art, and the Uprising.
April 7, 2016
April 7, 2016 - Segment 1 - We begin the show with the next installment of our series Baltimore Uprising, One Year Later. We look back at the 1968 unrest in Baltimore following the death of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. With: Kim Chase, Business Manager for WEAA.
April 7, 2016
April 6, 2016 - Segment 2 - As part of our series this month, Baltimore Uprising, One Year Later, our guests consider both the 1968 riots and the 2015 uprising.
April 7, 2016
April 5, 2016 - Segment 5 - It's our latest installment of our month-long series, Baltimore Uprising, One Year Later. Today's installment is called Looking Back at 1968.
April 5, 2016
April 4, 2016 - Segment 2 - Marc reflects upon, contrast and compare the 1968 Baltimore riots following the death of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the 2015 Baltimore Uprising. With: Dominique Stevenson and Marshall "Eddie" Conway.
April 1, 2016
March 31, 2016 - Segment 1 - We rebroadcast a fascinating discussion held earlier this year with Dr. Alondra Nelson, talks about her book The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome.
April 1, 2016
April 1, 2016 - Segment 1 - We host our weekly feature Tengella's Take with Koli Tengella. Koli is President of Tengella Edutainment, an instructor and creator of the Positive Social Change Performing Arts Program at Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts High School, and he was a 2010 Open Society Institute Fellow.
March 30, 2016
March 28, 2016 - Segment 1 - We host a conversation with with author Dan Baum, about his current front page article in Harper's magazine, Legalize It All: How to win the war on drugs, which discusses how the Nixon administration's "War on Drugs" was started to attack Black people and the anti-war left.
March 15, 2016
March 11, 2016 - Segment 4 - In an archive edition of the Steiner Show, we hear an interview with Jamal Joseph, activist, urban guerrilla, FBI’s most wanted fugitive, poet, and filmmaker, who joined us to discuss his memoir, Panther Baby: A Life of Rebellion & Reinvention.
February 19, 2016
February 19, 2016 - Segment 3 - We listen back to a special archive edition of The Marc Steiner Show, when I spoke with Baltimore native Philipp Meyer about his novel American Rust, a story set in a small, former steel town in western Pennsylvania.
February 17, 2016
February 16, 2016 - Segment 3 - We have a preview of the new documentary "Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution."
February 8, 2016
February 5, 2016 - Segment 2 - We have a conversation with Dr. David Pilgrim where we speak to him about his book Understanding Jim Crow: Using Racist Memorabilia to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice.
January 24, 2016
January 21, 2016 - Segment 1 - We begin the show with a conversation with two of our great writers and thinkers, Charles Johnson and E. Ethelbert Miller, about Johnson's powerful and insightful book The Words and Wisdom of Charles Johnson.
January 19, 2016
January 18, 2015 - Segment 1 - In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, we feature a special 2-hour conversation on the Rev. Dr. King's relevancy to this moment: From the 2016 election to community organizing in Baltimore.
January 19, 2016
January 15, 2015 - Segment 3 - We rebroadcast a conversation on symbols of the Confederacy in Baltimore and beyond.
January 8, 2016
January 8, 2016 - Segment 3 - In a special archive edition of The Marc Steiner Show, we talk with award-winning author Philip Dray about his book Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen.
December 10, 2015
December 9, 2015 - Segment 1 - We host the third segment of a series of productions by students in the American Studies Program at University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), called Baltimore Traces: Communities in Transition.
December 8, 2015
December 7, 2015 - Segment 1 - We host a production by students in the American Studies Program at University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), called Baltimore Traces: Communities in Transition. Part 1 looks at Baltimore's history.