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Most births attended by midwives take place in a hospital.  Yet, many people still associate midwives with birthing at home or in a free-standing birth center.  This morning we look at the different settings for midwife-attended births in Maryland.

Then, a Baltimore student talks about the difference that skin tone makes among African-Americans today, and its roots in history.

Plus, the story of the amazing sisters who brought Baltimore the Cone Collection of modernist art - as told by their great-niece and her daughter.

This conversation originally aired on September 20th, 2011.

In November of 1825, a 22-year-old lawyer, John H. B. LaTrobe, gathered a group of some of Baltimore’s most prominent citizens to organize a new school. They called the school the “Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts.”  

With same-sex marriage becoming legal in a growing number of states outside of Maryland, how will Maryland and its counties handle benefits for the same-sex spouses of public employees?

Is the end near for most of Baltimore’s street trees?

Tom takes a tour of the new sculpture exhibit at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum.

Maryland Morning Theater Critic J. Wynn Rousuck has been to see “As You Like It” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” both of which are playing at outdoor venues in Maryland this summer. She brings us these reviews.