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

October 30, 2014
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October 29: This Day in History

October 29, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including Benito Mussolini's appointment as Prime Minister of Italy, the 1929 New York Stock Exchange crash that launched the Great Depression, and Mohammad Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, winning his first professional fight.
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October 28, 2014
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World-Renowned Afro-Cuban Filmmaker Gloria Rolando

October 28, 2014 - Segment 3 - I'm joined by world-renowned Afro-Cuban Filmmaker Gloria Rolando, who is currently visiting and speaking at Morgan State University on telling African diaspora history history through film.
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October 28, 2014
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Dr. Cornel West: Black Prophetic Fire

October 28, 2014 - Segment 2 - I talk with the inimitable Dr. Cornel West! The author and Union Theological Seminary professor joins me to discuss his new book Black Prophetic Fire. In Black Prophetic Fire, West offers a new perspective on 6 ninetheenth- and twentieth century African American leaders
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October 28, 2014
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October 28: This Day In History

October 28, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Christopher Columbus arrived in Cuba on his first voyage to the New World, the day Eli Whitney applied for a patent for the cotton gin, and the day Oliver Edward Nelson, jazz musician, arranger and composer, died.
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October 27, 2014
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October 27: This Day in History

October 27, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the founding of Philadelphia, the day Catholic priest Phillip Berrigan and others of the Baltimore Four protested the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Service records at the Custom House in Baltimore, and the opening of the first underground New York subway.
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October 27, 2014
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October 24: This Day In History

October 24, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the Department of Labor reporter 500,000 Blacks had left the South between 1922-1923, the birthday of The Big Bopper, and the day civil rights activist Rosa Parks passed away.
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October 26, 2014
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October 23: This Day in History

October 23, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the births of Michael Eric Dyson and Gummo Marx, the outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 and the launch of the 1790 revolt in Haiti.
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October 26, 2014
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October 22: This Day In History

October 22, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the birthday of women's rights advocate Abigail Scott Duniway, the birthday of Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale, and the day 225 thousand students boycotted Chicago, IL schools to protest de facto segregation in 1963.
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October 21, 2014
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October 21: This Day in History

October 21, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the death of Jack Kerouac, the birth of Ursula K. Le Guin, and when William Lloyd Garrison, publisher of the Liberator, an abolitionist newspaper, was drug through the streets of Boston, MA, by a pro-slavery mob in 1835.
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October 20, 2014
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October 20: This Day in History

October 20, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the 1952 arrest of suspected leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising, including Jomo Kenyatta, the death of socialist leader Eugene V. Debs, and the birth of poet Arthur Rimbaud.
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October 20, 2014
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Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis

October 17, 2014 - Segment 2 - Dr. Karsonya "Kaye" Whitehead, Assistant Professor of Communication and Affiliate Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies at Loyola University Maryland, talks about her book Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis, which recently received the Letitia Woods Brown Book Award for the Best Edited Book in African American History from the Association of Black Women Historians.
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October 15, 2014
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Remembering Steve Biko: His Life, His Legacy & South Africa Today

October 15, 2014 - Segment 1 - Listen in to our show commemorating Steve Biko, who was murdered in 1977 while in custody of the South African police. Biko was an anti-apartheid activist in the 1960s and 70s and founder of the Black Consciousness Movement. We reflect upon his life, his legacy, Black Consciousness, and South Africa today.
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October 13, 2014
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Black Nationalism Today

October 10, 2014 - 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, Center for Emerging Media Scholar-In-Residence and Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University; author and songwriter John Wesley; and Dr. Jeff Menzise, licensed school psychologist in Washington, DC, and author of Dumbin' Down: Reflections on the Mis-Education of the Negro.
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October 13, 2014
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October 10: This Day in History

October 10, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the birth of pianist and composer Thelonius Monk, the premier of George Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess, and the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew.
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October 13, 2014
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October 9: This Day in History

October 9, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the death of Che Guevara, the 1970 proclamation of the Khmer Republic in Cambodia, the honoring of James Herbert "Eubie" Blake in 1981 with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, from President Ronald Reagan.
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October 13, 2014
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October 8: This Day In History

October 8, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Spanish-Mexican surrealist artist Remedios Varo died, the day the first women's prison run by women opened at the Indiana Reformatory Institute, and the day Chuck Berry was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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October 8, 2014
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October 7: This Day in History

October 7, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the discover of Matthew Shepard's body, a gay man who was beaten to death in Laramie, Wyoming, the birth of anarchist singer and activist Joe Hill, and Toni Morrison becoming the first African American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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October 8, 2014
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October 6: This Day in History

October 6, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the births of Fannie Lou Hamer and Gerry Adams, the launch of the Yom Kippur War, and the 1976 massacre of students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand.
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October 6, 2014
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October 3: This Day In History

October 3, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the birthday of singer-songwriter Chubby Checker, the day singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie died, and the day the first Black radio station, WERD, began operating in Atlanta, GA.
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October 6, 2014
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Charles E. Cobb Jr.’s ‘This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible’

October 2, 2014 - Segment 2 - Listen in as I talk with Charles E. Cobb, Jr., about his book: This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible. Cobb is a Visiting Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University. From 1962-1967 he served as a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Mississippi.
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October 6, 2014
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October 2: This Day In History

October 2, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day President George Washington put the Bill of Rights forward for a vote, the day Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo ordered the execution of Haitians living within the borderlands, and the birthday of Nat Turner.
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October 2, 2014
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October 1: This Day in History

October 1, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the 1964 launch of the Free Speech Movement on the campus of University of California, Berkeley, the 1975 "Thrilla in Manila," when Muhammad Ali defeated Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines, and the birth of John Brown Russwurm, abolitionist, Pan-Africanist and newspaper editor.
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September 30, 2014
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September 30: This Day In History

September 30, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day of the Elaine Massacre in Phillips County, Arkansas during Red Summer, the first convention of the National Farm Workers Association, and the birthday of Ann Jarvis, American activist and co-founder of Mother's Day.
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September 29, 2014
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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: An Indigenous People’s History of the United States

September 25, 2014 - Segment 3 - Listen to my interview with Native American author, historian, feminist, and self-described revolutionary Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her fascinating and informative book An Indigenous People's History of the United States.
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September 29, 2014
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September 25: This Day in History

September 25, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Palestinian-American critic Edward Said died, the day the U.S. Congress ratified the Bill of Rights, and the day the Little Rock Nine began the integration of Central High School.
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September 25, 2014
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Unveiling Maryland’s Frederick Douglass Portrait

September 25, 2014 - Segment 2 - We celebrate a history-making event: the unveiling of the first portrait of an African American to be displayed in the Governor's residence in Maryland! Last week Governor Martin O'Malley and Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown unveiled a portrait of Frederick Douglass at the Government House in Annapolis.
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September 25, 2014
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September 24: This Day In History

September 24, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the US Congress passed the Judiciary Act, the birthday of abolitionist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and the day sociologist Edward Franklin Frazier was born in Baltimore.
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September 23, 2014
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September 23: This Day in History

September 23, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the births of John Coltrane and Ray Charles, the 1943 declaration of the Italian Socialist Republic, and the 1890 election of John Mercer Langston to the US Congress. He was the first black person elected to represent the state of Virginia in Congress and the only one for at least another 100 years.
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September 23, 2014
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September 22: This Day In History

September 22, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the US Postmaster General was established, the day a preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation was released, and the day Congressman George Washington Murray was born enslaved.
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September 23, 2014
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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

September 19, 2014 - Segment 4 - We close out the show with another popular archive edition, my conversation with author Tom Reiss who won the Pulitzer Prize for his fascinating and enlightening book The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo.
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September 23, 2014
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September 19: This Day In History

September 19, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Booker T. Washington opened the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, the birthday of educator and philosopher Paulo Freire, and the day the Solidarity March took place protesting the Reagan Administration in 1981.
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September 18, 2014
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September 18: This Day In History

September 18, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Christopher Columbus arrived in Honduras, the day Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, and the day Booker T. Washington delivered the "Atlanta Compromise" at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta.
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September 18, 2014
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September 16: This Day In History

September 16, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the French abolished Slavery in all of their territories, the day more than 3000 African Americans died when Lake Okeechobee flooded Western Palm Beach County, Florida, and the day B.B. King was born in Itta Benna, Mississippi.
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September 16, 2014
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September 15: This Day in History

September 15, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the murder of singer Victor Jara, the birth of poet Claude McKay, and Lehman Brothers filing for Chapter 11, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
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September 14, 2014
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Remembering Steve Biko: His Life, His Legacy & South Africa Today

September 12, 2014 - Segment 3 - We remember anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, who was murdered on September 12, 1977, while in the custody of the South African police. Biko was an anti-apartheid activist in the 1960s and 70s and founder of the Black Consciousness Movement. We reflect upon his life, his legacy, Black Consciousness, and South Africa today.
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September 13, 2014
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Moment in Maryland Black History: The Death of Noted Educator Stephen Handy Long

September 12, 2014 - Segment 2 - Listen to the newest edition of our regular feature in partnership with the Reginald F. Lewis Museum, A Moment in Maryland Black History. We talk about the death of noted African American principal Stephen Handy Long of Pocomoke City due to an altercation with a local white resident.
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September 13, 2014
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September 12: This Day In History

September 12, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko died in police custody, the day Mary Jane Patterson, the first Black woman to graduate from an established college with a four year degree, was born, and the day Adolf Hitler joined the German Workers' Party.
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September 12, 2014
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Moment in Maryland Black History: The Christiana Rebellion

September 11, 2014 - Segment 2 - Learn about a little-known but significant piece of American history, which began on September 11, 1851: The Christiana Rebellion. The rebellion led to the first major conspiracy trial in U.S. history, where both black and white men were put on trial for defying the Fugitive Slave Act.
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September 12, 2014
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September 11: This Day In History

September 11, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day 75,000 coal miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia brought a 10-week strike to a victorious end, the birthday of jazz musician Harry Connick Jr., and the day Peter Tosh was shot and killed.
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September 12, 2014
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September 10: This Day In History

September 10, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Simon Bolivar was named President of Peru, the day Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, the first Black president of Howard University, died, and the day musician Roy James Brown was born.
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September 10, 2014
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September 9: This Day in History

September 9, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the births of Otis Redding, Sonia Sanchez, and Billy Preston, the deaths of Mao Zedong and Bill Monroe, and the launch of the four-day Attica Prison rebellion.
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September 8, 2014
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Enemy of the Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story

September 8, 2014 - Segment 4 - We preview of an important documentary premiering on PBS Tuesday, September 9: Enemy of the Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story. We discuss this fascinating story of how a Sorbonne-educated woman became a spy in Nazi-occupied France.
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September 8, 2014
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September 8: This Day In History

September 8, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Michelangelo's 'David' was unveiled in Florence in 1504, the day abolitionist Sarah Mapps Douglass died, and the birthday of Ruby Nell Bridges Hall, the first African American child to attend an all white elementary school in the South.
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September 8, 2014
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For Whom It Stands: The Flag and the American People

September 5, 2014 - Segment 3 - We visit the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture to walk through the museum's current exhibit, For Whom It Stands: The Flag and the American People. The exhibit examines how people have interpreted and interacted with the American flag throughout history.
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September 8, 2014
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September 5: This Day In History

September 5, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day 'Our Nig, Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black' was published, the first novel published by an African American woman, the birthday of civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, and the day the nation's first Labor Day parade was held in New York City.
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September 8, 2014
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September 4: This Day In History

September 4, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Bowie State College was established in 1865, the day of the Clinton Massacre in Mississippi in 1875, and the day Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus called on the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Central High School.
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