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Legalizing Professional Midwives; The Black Book; Dinner Egg Dishes

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After years of stalemate, legislation is moving through the General Assembly that would legalize home births attended by a certified professional midwife. We talk with a midwife – and with a mom who has given birth at home and in a hospital.

Then, Tom Hall sits down with community activists Dayvon Love and Lawrence Grandpre, the men behind the social-justice organization ‘Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle’. They’ve written a new book that indicts what they call the “non-profit industrial complex” in which white people lead organizations that serve black communities.

Plus, in time for Easter and Passover -- Maryland Morning’s Food Guru Sascha Wolhandler works her magic on eggs.