June 22, 2015
June 18, 2015 - Segment 2 - We have a national roundtable on the attack on Emanuel AME in Charleston and the presidential election.
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June 15, 2015
June 15, 2015 - Segment 2 - We begin the show with a roundtable discussion on analyses of a number of top news stories, including the Spokane NAACP's Rachel Dolezal scandal and the rough handling of Black teens at a pool party by police in McKinney, Texas.
June 12, 2015
June 11, 2015 - Segment 3 - On our newest edition of Sound Bites, our series about our food and our world, we take a trip to Washington, DC, for a conversation on a number of issues around the poultry industry, focusing on the complex plight of contract chicken growers. We also hear a recipe for vegan, gluten-free alfredo.
June 12, 2015
June 10, 2015 - Segment 2 - We host a roundtable discussion on recent headlines involving violence, prison, policing, and community solutions, including: the suicide last Saturday of Kalief Browder; the freeing of Angola 3 member Albert Woodfox after 43 years in solitary confinement; violence in Baltimore; and initiatives in Sandtown.
June 11, 2015
June 4, 2015 - Segment 3 - On Sound Bites, our series about our food and our world, we begin the hour with a look at current Presidential hopeful Martin O'Malley's record on the Environment, hear how a Gunpowder riverkeeper halted a 21-mile natural gas pipeline from being constructed, and discuss whether animals are sentient beings.
June 9, 2015
June 3, 2015 - Segment 3 - The world found out yesterday that The FBI is operating a small air force across the country with low-flying planes using video surveillance technology, under the guise of fictitious companies.
June 9, 2015
June 2, 2015 - Segment 3 - Kavitha Davidson, Bloomberg View Sports Columnist joins us for a commentary on the controversy over FIFA, the world soccer governing body, and the Olympics.
June 9, 2015
June 2, 2015 - Segment 2 - Our panel of guests considers last Saturday's announcement by former Baltimore mayor and Maryland governor, Martin O'Malley, that he will run for the Democratic nomination for President in 2016.
June 4, 2015
May 29, 2015 - Segment 3 - We reflect on the acquittal of a Cleveland police officer charged with manslaughter in the 2012 shooting deaths of two unarmed African Americans with two native Clevelanders who now make Baltimore their home.
June 2, 2015
May 28, 2015 - Segment 3 - On the newest edition of Sound Bites, our series on our food and our world, we return to the important topic of bees. First we look into the history and work of President Obama's White House Pollinator Health Task Force and hear how our local beekeepers are faring in our region.
June 2, 2015
May 28, 2015 - Segment 2 - Our guest host Dr. Lester Spence, Center for Emerging Media Scholar-In-Residence, discusses Black history and policing, with Daryl Scott, Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Howard University and outgoing President of the Association for the Study of African American Life.
May 21, 2015
May 19, 2015 - Segment 4 - We host an important discussion about an international agreement currently being hotly debated between Congress and the President - one that will affect all of us, but about which most of us know very little - the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership).
May 20, 2015
May 18, 2015 - Segment 3 - Our panel turns to national headlines as we look at the race for the Presidency, the battle over TPP in Congress and other topics, with Dr. Kimberly Moffitt, Catalina Byrd and Edward Wyckoff Williams.
May 15, 2015
May 13, 2015 - Segment 5 - We offer a sneak preview of Saturday night's special screening of Out in the Night at the Baltimore Creative Alliance, part of the 4th Annual Charm City LGBTQA Film Festival. I talk with the film's Director, blair dorosh-walther.
May 15, 2015
May 12, 2015 - Segment 5 - We close out the show with Congresswoman Donna Edwards about her run for the U.S. Senate and her thoughts on Baltimore.
May 15, 2015
May 12, 2015 - Segment 4 - We discuss the sentencing of CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling with retired NSA employee J. Kirk Wiebe and the Institute for Public Accuracy's Norman Solomon.
May 11, 2015
May 11, 2015 - Segment 2 - We talk with Todd H. Oppenheim, felony trial attorney in the Office of the Public Defender, about his recent op-ed for the Baltimore Brew titled, "The bias in Baltimore bail hearings: a presumption of guilt."
May 11, 2015
May 8, 2015 - Segment 3 - Listen to my conversation from last Sunday with long-time activist, former politician, and author Tom Hayden, about his new book Listen Yankee! Why Cuba Matters.
May 8, 2015
May 7, 2015 - Segment 3 - On a new episode of Sound Bites, we broadcast of a very lively town hall meeting held on March 23 - one of our "Good Food Gatherings" in partnership with Baltimore Food & Faith Project - in which our panel of guests and the audience engaged in a discussion following a screening of the movie Homecoming, about the history of Black farmers in the U.S.
May 8, 2015
May 7, 2015 - Segment 1 - We begin the hour with Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, who talks about her article last week in In These Times: "In Baltimore and Across the Country, Black Faces in High Places Haven't Helped Average Black People: Electing African-American political leaders has done little to alleviate the suffering of Black America."
April 24, 2015
April 22, 2015 - Segment 3 - We talk with best-selling author Michael Eric Dyson, University Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University, about his recent article for the New Republic, "The Ghost of Cornel West."
April 24, 2015
April 22, 2015 - Segment 2 - Our guests report back on an important event that took place in New York, April 9-12: Institute of the Black World 21st Century International Black Reparations Summit. The three-day meeting honored pioneers in the fight for reparations for Black Americans.
April 21, 2015
Debating Marijuana Law Reform: Looking Through Lens Of Race, Our Prison Population & Our Communities
April 20, 2015 - Segment 3 - Listen to a debate and discussion around marijuana law reform, with: Retired Major Neill Franklin, Lawrence Grandpre, and Will Jones III.
April 21, 2015
April 20, 2015 - Segment 2 - We turn to discussions around laws and policies pertaining to the use of marijuana. We begin with a look at Maryland, which decriminalized marijuana use in 2014, and at Washington, DC, where marijuana use became legal this year, though it is currently outlawed in public places.
April 17, 2015
April 17, 2015 - Segment 1 - As you know, Ta-Nehisi Coates stepped into the international spotlight last year when his article "The Case for Reparations," was featured as the cover story for the June 2014 issue of The Atlantic. In the article he puts forth the argument that Black Americans as a group have been prevented from building inter-generational wealth.
April 17, 2015
April 16, 2015 - Segment 2 - It's a live news roundtable with Anthony and Catalina Byrd, co-host of No Hooks for the Hip-Hop Chronicles on WEAA, with topics to include the police-involved killings across the U.S.
April 2, 2015
April 1, 2015 - Segment 1 - Guest host Anthony McCarthy joins us for a political roundtable, discussing Trevor Noah, Martin O'Malley's run for the presidency, and the Indiana "religious freedom" law.
March 25, 2015
March 24, 2015 - Segment 2 - Republican strategist Lenny McAllister offers a commentary on yesterday's announcement that Texas Senator Ted Cruz has thrown his hat into the ring for the 2016 Presidential elections.
March 25, 2015
March 23, 2015 - Segment 3 - We look at last week's Israeli election results and their implications for U.S. politics, with: Bill Fletcher, Senior Scholar at Institute for Policy Studies.
March 22, 2015
March 19, 2015 - Segment 2 - We take a look at the state of progressive media.
March 18, 2015
March 17, 2015 - Segment 3 - In our latest edition of Sound Bites, we listen to a panel Marc moderated about labor issues in the farming industry and movements for food and labor justice.
March 16, 2015
March 16, 2015 - Segment 3 - We host a national and international news roundtable, and discuss last week's shooting in Ferguson, Iran, Hillary Clinton, and the nomination of Loretta Lynch for U.S. Attorney General.
March 13, 2015
March 13, 2015 - Segment 2 - I talk with Dr. Tom Schaller, Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of Political Science at UMBC, about his new book, The Stronghold: How Republicans Captured Congress but Surrendered the White House.
March 13, 2015
March 12, 2015 - Segment 2 - We reflect upon the 50th anniversary of the 1965 events in Selma with three panelists who were in Selma for the events of the past week.
March 10, 2015
March 6, 2015 - Segment 3 - Our guests reflect upon the report issued this week by the U.S. Department of Justice on the Ferguson Police Department with: Akiba Solomon and Dr. Tara Bynum.
March 9, 2015
March 6, 2015 - Segment 2 - This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Selma march, and we take time to reflect upon the events of March 1965, with NAACP President Cornell William Brooks and a panel of guests.
March 2, 2015
March 2, 2015 - Segment 4 - We look at the inmate uprising that happened last week at Willacy County Correctional Center in Raymondville, Texas, known as "Ritmo," over inadequate medical conditions at this overcrowded for-profit facility.
February 18, 2015
February 17, 2015 - Segment 4 - On our series about our food and our world - Sound Bites - we bring you a tape of a panel discussion from last Thursday at Red Emma's Bookstore and Café, which followed a screening of Food Chains, a documentary about the work of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to achieve fair treatment for farmworkers.
February 18, 2015
February 16, 2015 - Segment 3 - We host a news roundtable, discussing, among other things, the passing of Frank Conaway Sr.
February 13, 2015
February 12, 2015 - Segment 4 - We turn our attention to heroin use in Maryland, as well as treatment programs and policy issues facing the Maryland legislature this session.
February 13, 2015
February 12, 2015 - Segment 3 - We examine the role of social justice activism in the church, with the Rev. Kevin Slayton and the Rev. Dr. Heber Brown.
February 13, 2015
February 12, 2015 - Segment 2 - In light of Tuesday's fatal shootings of three young Muslims near the University of North Carolina, we examine Islamophobia in America.
February 11, 2015
February 10, 2015 - Segment 2 - In light of the news that Tavon White - the Black Guerrilla Family member who ran a drug ring in prison and impregnated four guards - would receive a lightened sentence because he gave key testimony against other inmates and guards, we discuss prison reform and abolition.
February 4, 2015
February 4, 2015 - Segment 2 - We're joined for a conversation with Kurt Schmoke, President of University of Baltimore and former mayor of Baltimore.
January 27, 2015
January 27, 2015 - Segment 3 - We examine the verdict released yesterday in the case of Jeffrey Sterling, the ex-CIA agent accused of releasing classified information to reporter James Risen. Sterling was convicted on all nine counts.
January 23, 2015
January 22, 2015 - Segment 5 - Marc is joined by artist Kimberly Sheridan (right), the Pigtown resident who uses art to speak out against gun violence.
January 23, 2015
January 22, 2015 - Segment 2 - We discuss the case of 87 year-old Dr. Larry Egbert, a former Baltimore anesthesiologists who was stripped of his license by the Maryland Board of Physicians.
January 22, 2015
January 21, 2015 - Segment 3 - Today marks the 5 year anniversary of the Citizens United v. The Federal Elections Commission, US Supreme Court Case. Marc and his panel discuss the case and its repercussions, 5 years later.
January 21, 2015
January 21, 2015 - Segment 2 - Marc and his panel offer analysis of President Barack Obama's sixth state of the Union address. Did the President's comments last night truly reflect the State of the Union, as the American people see it?
January 20, 2015
January 20, 2015 - Segment 3 - On our newest episode of Sound Bites, our series about our food and our world, we look to Annapolis to examine the environmental agenda of Governor-elect Larry Hogan and the fate of the Phosphorus Management Tool. We also talk to Dr. Wayne Roberts about his predictions for the global food trends of 2015, which may surprise you.