Melissa Gerr
Senior ProducerMelissa Gerr is a Senior Producer for On the Record. She started in public media at Twin Cities Public Television in St. Paul, Minn., where she is from, and then worked as a field producer for Oregon Public Broadcasting in Portland. She made the jump to audio-lover in Baltimore as a digital media editor at Mid-Atlantic Media and Laureate Education, Inc. and as a field producer for "Out of the Blocks." Her beat is typically the off-beat with an emphasis on science, culture and things that make you say, 'Wait, what?'
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In a new collection of photographs and essays Mark Hendricks documents the seasons of Appalachia, and the animal and plant living there. His book is called ‘The Central Appalachians: Mountains of the Chesapeake.’
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Maryland Hall in Annapolis is turning its commemoration of Maryland Day on its head. We get the backstory.
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Coppin State University wants to grow Maryland’s pool of special educators. What's their plan?
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We go On the Record with NPR weekend edition Sunday host Ayesha Rascoe. She edited the book "HBCU Made: A Celebration of the Black College Experience."
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We’ll go On the Record with Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott as he runs for a second term. We ask how he’s addressing crime, property taxes, schools, pandemic relief money, the city’s dwindling population and the proposal to shrink the city council.
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We go On the Record with historian Edda Fields-Black. Her book “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War" tells of a crucial Civil War raid. Under cover of darkness, Harriet Tubman and the Union Army, along with Black enlisted men, liberated 700 enslaved people along the Combee River of South Carolina.
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Here's a Stoop Story from Aisha Alfadhalah about the origin of the Meera Kitchen collective restaurant.
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We go On the Record with author Susan Muaddi Darraj. Her new novel traces intersecting lives of Palestinian-American families in Baltimore. It’s heart wrenching, and often funny.
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We go On the Record with Mahalia! A gospel play at Arena Players portrays in song the life of the Queen of Gospel. Plus, at the Banneker Douglass Museum, 60 years after the Civil Rights Act--revisiting and reimagining the Civil Rights era.