1-2-13: Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast

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The college football bowl season is in full swing. None of the players is getting paid to play in the bowl games -- or any other game for that matter. Historian Taylor Branch says we should change that. Tom Hall talks with Branch about the Bowl Championship Series and the state of college sports.

Then: 500 years ago, what did Europeans understand about Africa? An exhibit at the Walters Art Museum shines a light on the interplay of skin color, perception and status the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries.  Tom takes of tour of the exhibit, called "Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe."