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How Maryland Trains its Corrections Officers

Podcast Summary: A Maryland task force has recommended that the Baltimore City Detention Center be closed.  This after 27 corrections officers were indicted over the course of 2013 for facilitating...

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Are Women Being Redlined, Sidelined, and Pink Slipped?

Podcast Summary: A look at the role gender plays in the workplace. Why do women in Maryland make 85 cents to every dollar made by men--and what forms of discrimination do women still face? We talk with...

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Former Head Of The NAACP Ben Jealous, a novel based on the life of Zelda...

Podcast Summary: Ben Jealous on his time leading the NAACP, a novel inspired by the life of Zelda Fitzgerald, a review of "The Left Hand of Darkness", and how to keep your nutrition resolutions in the...

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Where Justice and Art Meet

Podcast Summary: Many artists in Baltimore are involved in social justice work.  The Baltimore Art and Justice Project helps to connect them with each other—and with funders.  Tom Hall talks with...

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House Speaker Michael Busch and House Minority Leader Nic Kipke, Plus Former...

Podcast Summary: House Speaker Michael Busch and Minority Leader Nic Kipke, plus Former Georgia U.S.D.A. Official Shirley Sherrod.A week into the General Assembly session, hundreds of bills already...

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Clemency for Snowden: Thursday January 23rd, 12-1 p.m.

Podcast Summary: Is NSA leaker and former government contractor Edward Snowden a hero or a traitor? Should he be given clemency or prosecuted on espionage charges? We hear from both sides on that and...

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2014 Priorities For The Legislative Black Caucus Of Maryland

Podcast Summary: What do minimum wage, historically black colleges and universities, and expunging criminal records have in common? They're all important priorities of the Legislative Black Caucus of...

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Shooting at Columbia Mall, Taylor Branch on the Civil Rights movement, "The...

Podcast Summary: Howard County Police Chief Bill McMahon on the shooting at the Columbia Mall, historian Taylor Branch on the Civil Rights movement, and a new exhibit at the Peabody Library on the...

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Women Legislators of Maryland, Remembering Pete Seeger, "American Promise"

Podcast Summary: How the women's caucus is approaching this legislative session, Maryland musicians remember Pete Seeger, and the documentary film "American Promise."The Women Legislators of Maryland...

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Bail Reform in Maryland, Former Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, and Singer...

Podcast Summary: We talk about bail reform with Maryland’s head Public Defender Paul DeWolfe and WYPR statehouse reporter Chris Connelly, then with former Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, plus singer...

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