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October 23, 2015 – Segment 2
Our show concludes with a listen back to a segment we recorded earlier this year about The Wire, as our guests talk about the series and its representation of our city. With: Lawrence Grandpre, Assistant Director of Research and Public Policy for Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle and author of the City Paper article, “Smile For the Camera: The representational limits of ‘The Wire;'” Dr. Lawrence Brown, public health consultant and Assistant Professor of Public Health in the School of Community Health and Policy at Morgan State University; Dr. Kate Drabinski, Lecturer of Gender and Women’s Studies and Director of the Women Involved in Learning and Leadership (WILL) Program at University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), and author of the City Paper article “Field Tripping: Biking ‘The Wire’;” and Phillip Burgess, classically trained actor and Theatre Lecturer at Morgan State University who appeared in The Wire.
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