On The Record
Weekdays, 9:30 to 10:00 am
Catch On the Record, hosted by Sheilah Kast, weekdays from 9:30 to 10:00 am, following NPR’s Morning Edition. We’ll discuss the issues that affect your life and bring you thoughtful and lively conversations with the people who shape those issues -- business people, public officials, scholars, artists, authors, and journalists who can take us inside the story. If you want to share a comment, question, or an idea for an interview you’d like to hear, email us at [email protected].
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Produced by Maureen Harvie, Melissa Gerr, and Sam Bermas-Dawes. Theme music created by Jon Ehrens. Logo designed by Louis Umerlik.
Latest Episodes
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We go On the Record with the co-founder of SquashWise. The nonprofit uses the lightning-speed court sport to foster personal growth and high academic standards for middle and high school youth. Then we stop by the facility and hear from the students.
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We’ll go On the Record with the director and the historian behind a film that tells the story of the enslaved couple Mary and Daniel Bell, who fought in court for their family’s freedom, were thwarted, saw their children sold south, and were at last connected again.
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Erica Rimlinger shares a story about her childhood hijinx.
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From schools and parks to fire hydrants and sidewalks, historian Andrew Kahrl finds numerous examples over the 20th century of how African American taxpayers have been denied the benefits of their dollars. His new book is titled, “The Black Tax.”
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We’ll go On the Record with housing experts who say the future of our democracy depends on desegregating our communities. In “Just Action,” Leah and Richard Rothstein lay out policies that can prompt change, from down payment subsidies to inclusionary zoning laws.
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We go On the Record to hear how the Dundalk community is faring after the Key Bridge collapse. Plus, Pompeian Olive Oil, employer of locals for more than a century, has kept workers on the job and their product flowing. Can they keep it up?
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We go On the Record with WYPR’s News Director Matt Bush and Baltimore Banner politics reporter Pamela Wood to recap the 446th session of the Maryland General Assembly.
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We’ll go On the Record with Baltimore Banner education reporter Kristen Griffith to learn why Black teachers in Maryland are leaving the education system at higher rates than their white colleagues. Plus, we talk with three Black teachers -- whose stories differ widely.
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We go On the Record with Pokemoke Indian Nation citizen and cultural ambassador Drew Shuptar-Rayvis. He walks us through a new Maryland Archives collection that depicts Native life on Maryland’s Eastern shore -- past and present.
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Here's a Stoop Story from Sophia Garber about her trek on the Appalachian Trail … and all that it's meant for her in her life.