June 26, 2012
This hour we discuss the dynamics of gender. Are men and women innately different or do we conform to societal expectations?
June 26, 2012
We discuss the US Supreme Court's ruling on Arizona's controversial immigration law this hour. We start off with Daniel Rodriguez, Head of the Arizona Dream Act Coalition.
June 25, 2012
June 25, 2012
Today, we are joined by Former delegate from Prince George's County Gerron Levi, Chairman of the Maryland Young Republicans Brian Griffith and Barry Rascovar, a Maryland political columnist and communications consultant to discuss the issue of gambling in Maryland.
June 21, 2012
This week on Sound Bites on Delmarva, we listen back to a panel discussion held earlier this month at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in partnership with Urbanite Magazine about the film “Food Stamped,” a documentary about nutri
June 21, 2012
Chris Hedges joins us to discuss his latest book, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt. Together with comic artist Joe Sacco, Hedges traveled to the most economically depressed area
June 20, 2012
Then we turn to local politics, and the hot button issue of a Royal Farms Store and gas station on Harford Road. Guests include County Councilman Bobby Curran, Glenham-Belhar Community Association Treasurer Keith Burner, community activist Roopesh Vijayan, and Dell Rhodes, a community resident opposed to the project.
June 20, 2012
Today on the Steiner show, we're featuring one of our Urbanite Radio Stories. Tonight we are talking electric cars with Jill Sorenson, Director of the Baltimore-Washington Electric Vehicle Initiative (BEVI); and Mahi Reddy, Founder and CEO OF SEMACONNECT.
June 20, 2012
Join us for an interview with the organizers of the Un Saddest Factory Theatre Company's Fourth Annual Ten Minute Play Festival.
June 19, 2012
Join us for a conversation about new home buying incentives with: Catherine Stokes, Senior Project Manager with Telesis Corp., which has been rehabilitating homes in the Barclay-Old Goucher community; Steve Silver, CFO of the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development; and
June 19, 2012
Today on the Steiner Show, we will converse about immigration, discussing both President Obama's recent order allowing more than 800,000 young undocumented immigrants to remain in the United States without fear of deportation, and the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decision on Arizona's stringent immigration law.
June 19, 2012
The Afro-American newspaper is turning 120, and tonight we will join in the anniversary celebration! The Afro-American is the second longest running black periodical in the U.S. This weekend a new exhibit opens at Baltimore's Reginald F.
June 18, 2012
Today on the Steiner Show, Director of the NAACP's Washington Bureau Hilary Shelton, Sr. and independent journalist for the Examiner Hassan Giordano join us to talk about several incidents of police shootings around the country, including a recent case here
June 18, 2012
Today, Anthony McCarthy joins us a co-host as we discuss the ongoing turmoil in Syria and look at arguments for and against foreign intervention, as well as the struggle for power and democracy in Egypt with reporter Jihan Hafiz, who is in Egypt, foreign policy an
June 12, 2012
Join us as we visit the construction site for Everyman's Theatre's new building at Eutaw and Fayette streets with their Artistic Director Vincent M. Lancisi.
June 12, 2012
Columbia University Professor and author Joseph Stiglitz joins us for a conversation on his latest release dealing with inequality, The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Fut
June 12, 2012
On this epsiode of Sound Bites, Carole and Frank Morrison join us in conversation about their pasture-raised hens. Then, Vandana Shiva joins us for a discussion on the movement for sustainable and equitable agriculture in India.
June 12, 2012
She's an author, an actress, a comedienne and a director. Rain Pryor joins us for a conversation about her newest project, the play Well, currently showing at the Strand Theater. Well can be seen at the Strand Theater from June 1- 16, 2012.
June 12, 2012
Haile Gerima, filmmaker and professor at Howard University, joins us to discuss his latest film, Teza. Teza, despite being released in 2009, was only recently made available on DVD.
June 12, 2012
Dr. Lester Spence, author and Associate Professor of Political Science and African Studies at Johns Hopkins University and Past President of the Baltimore Branch of NAACP Doc Cheatam.
June 12, 2012
Members of the Balimore City Council join the Marc Steiner Show to discuss the future of a possible bottle tax. Joining us are:
Helen Holton representing District 8,
Robert Curran representing District 3, and
June 11, 2012
Regional Project Director for the Southern Anti-Racism Network Theresa El-Amin, Principle for the consulting firm, Arc Adaptus Tyrone Keys and Bob Somerby, editor of the Daily Howler join us for a roundtable discussion on current eve
June 11, 2012
Anthony McCarthy joins us as we converse with Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, author of a new study on the impact of race on black political candidates in the United States that was
June 6, 2012
John Robbins grew up the heir to the fortune made by his father, the Robbins in Baskin-Robbins ice cream. But he gave up his wealth and his claim to the company to dedicate himself to a life of environmental and healthy-living activism. He is the author of Diet for a New America and many other books, and on this week's ep
June 6, 2012
We travel to Franklin Square Elementary Middle School to speak with Steiner Show regular Lea Gilmore about her new program Baltimore Voice
June 6, 2012
Join us as we sit down with poet and author Rodger Kamenetz to discuss dreams, how spirituality gets lost in modern life and his latest book: Burnt Books: Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav and Franz Kafka.
June 6, 2012
Seth Rockman, historian from Brown University and co-editor of Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development sits down with us to discuss how slavery led to modern capitalism.
June 6, 2012
Join us for an Urbanite Radio Story about the future of development in Maryland. Should the state take action to curb suburban sprawl?
June 4, 2012
Documentary poet, labor activist, and 2010 Guggenheim Fellow Mark Nowak and 2008 National Book Award finalist and four-time national Poetry Slam champion Patricia Smith join us to discuss what motivates them as poets seeking to engage with a wide audience and work for social justice.
June 4, 2012
David Simon joins us for an hour in studio. The author of The Corner, and the creator of The Wire and Treme, Simon offers his unique view of how Baltimore has changed - and stayed the same - in the ten years since The Wire began.
This hour of the show originally aired on February 28, 2012.
June 4, 2012
We're joined by Jesmyn Ward, whose novel Salvage the Bones was the 2011 National Book Award winner for fiction.
June 4, 2012
Author Lawrence P. Jackson joins us to discuss the journey he took through his family's history, and the history of African Americans descended from slaves, which he documents in his new book My Father's Name: A Black Virginia Family After the Civil War. He will also be speaking at the Enoch Pratt Library in Baltimore at 6:30pm on June 5th.
May 31, 2012
Today, members of the Intersection join us to talk about the state of Baltimore City schools and how they are using media to address their issues with infrastructure. The Intersection is a non-profit that trains teens in community-organizing.
May 31, 2012
May 31, 2012
We're joined by Tibetan monks from the Deprung Gomang monastery in southern India. Originally formed in 1416, Deprung Gomang's monks fled to India from Tibet during the Chinese invasion of 1959.
May 31, 2012
In the third segment, we discuss the meaning of the US Constitution, and ask difficult questions about its role in governance and its relevence today. We're joined by David Law, professor of law and political science at Washington University in St.
May 29, 2012
David Harvey, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, joins us to talk about his new book "Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution." He discusses the role of cities in the current global uprisings, historical precedents like the Paris Commune, and social movements in Baltimore.
May 29, 2012
This week on Sound Bites on Delmarva, we're joined by Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director of Food and Water Watch. Wenonah Hauter has worked extensively on food, water, energy, and environmental issues at the national, state and local level.
May 29, 2012
Listen in on a roundtable discussion on local politics, including the bottle tax, recreational center closings, and gambling.
May 29, 2012
Join us as we discuss the recent rioting and violence against African refugees living in Tel Aviv. Joining us from Tel Aviv are Yohannes Bayu, executive director of the African Refugee Development Center, and Haggai Matar, journalist with +972 Mag and Zman Tel Aviv. We'll also be
May 25, 2012
In the final segment of Wandering Souls, we continue the journey with Vietnam Veteran Homer Steedly as he meets with the family of the Vietnamese soldier he killed forty years before.
May 25, 2012
In honor of Memorial Day, we're rebroadcasting a conversation between Marc and Woody Curry from last October. It was shortly after President Obama announced that the US was withdrawing its soldiers from Iraq, and the conversation ranged from the problems facing veterans on their return home, to the culture of the military, to the place of war in our society.
May 24, 2012
This week on Sound Bites on Delmarva, join us for a visit to St. Brigid’s Farm in Kennedyville, MD.
May 24, 2012
Vandana Shiva is an environmental activist, feminist and writer living in Delhi, India. Trained as a philosopher and physicist, she left academics to found the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, a participatory, public interest research organization.
May 24, 2012
James W. “Jim” Hamlin is the head baker and owner of the Avenue Bakery. Hamlin has been on the forefront of redevelopment projects on Pennsylvania Avenue, and will join us to discuss the history and future of Pennsylvania Avenue.
May 23, 2012
Nick Roti, Chief of the Chicago Police Department's Bureau of Organized Crime, joins us to discuss the case of the
May 23, 2012
Listen in as Delegate Dr. Dan Morhaim discusses his latest release, a book on death called "The Better End: Surving (and Dying) On Your Own Terms in Today's Modern Medical World."
May 23, 2012
Join us for an Urbanite Radio story about efforts to bring the sport of lacrosse back to inner-city Baltimore.
We're joined by:
Lloyd Carter, co-founder of Blax Lax
May 23, 2012
National Lawyers Guild spokesperson Kris Hermes joins us to discuss the case of the NATO 3, three anti-NATO protesters arrested on terrorism charges in Chicago last week.
May 22, 2012
Iraq Veteran Against the War member Maggie Martin joins us to speak about her participation in a protest outside the NATO summit in which she and other veterans threw their medals away.