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  • New Ways to Fight Viruses; Beautiful Design; Rosie The Riveters In Baltimore
    A new way of disabling viruses is being developed that could hold promise for the fight against viral diseases like H.I.V. and Ebola. We talk with Johns…
  • Crime Spike In Baltimore; Gay Bar Closing; Sex Therapist Lois Feinblatt
    Baltimore is seeing a 40% increase in homicides and a 60% increase in shootings this year compared to the same time last year. What's causing the spike,…
  • Homicide Statistics; Novelist Anne Tyler; "Marley"; Veteran Brain Injuries
    Since Freddie Gray’s death, coverage of the spike in crime in Baltimore has centered on fatal shootings. Today we look into the power of homicide…
  • Left: A contemporary quilt made by students and staff at St Francis Neighborhood Center using tradional methods and motifs of West Baltimore life; Right: Details of the Stansbury quilt
    Baltimore Album Quilts
    Baltimore album quilts were created to be showcased on walls and often featured iconic Baltimore scenes like the Battle Monument or Clipper ships, as well as symbols from everyday life.
  • Chefs at work in the kitchen of a restaurant in New York's Chinatown, circa 1940. For many Chinese, opening up restaurants became a way to bypass U.S. immigration laws designed to keep them out of the country.
    Lo Mein Loophole: How U.S. Immigration Law Fueled A Chinese Restaurant Boom
    In the early 20th century, the Chinese faced draconian immigration rules. But owners of a few types of businesses could get special visas. In 1915, restaurants got on that list. The rest is history.
  • Griffin Watching Over the Wild
    Someday, when a history is written about the long and not always successful war to restore the Chesapeake Bay, a chapter will be devoted to one of the…
  • Yanghee Lee, the U.N. special rapporteur on Myanmar, pictured on March 11.
    U.N. Investigator Reports Possible New War Crimes In Myanmar
    Yanghee Lee, the U.N. special rapporteur on Myanmar, spoke of civilians being detained, interrogated and dying in the custody of Myanmar's military.
  • Working Together: 3 Generations Of Family Mechanics
    In honor of Labor Day weekend, we spotlight the work of the late author Studs Terkel, who spent the early 1970s talking to people about their jobs for his collection of oral histories titled Working.
  • One Woman's Quest To Make Juneteenth A National Holiday
    A 90-year-old Texas woman is trying to make "Juneteenth," a holiday that honors the freedom of slaves, a national holiday. She's walked around the country and will end her petition in Washington, D.C.
  • What Ya Got Cookin'? Three chefs' tried-and-true Thanksgiving recipes
    Three prominent Baltimore chefs dish out their favorite recipes for the traditional family feast, and welcome yours!
  • The cover of "Starry Field" and author Margaret Juhae Lee. (Courtesy)
    Memoir 'Starry Field' tells an uncovered history in colonial Korea
    Margaret Juhae Lee used her training as a journalist to unearth the story of her late grandfather who had been imprisoned by the Japanese in Korea in the mid-1930s.
  • The Buzz About Bees
    John Racanelli shares the latest information about the health of bees.
  • Aquaculture
    We all want to do what's best for our ocean planet but we're drowning in choices. And consumers are asking 'what is best?' In this episode, John sheds…
  • Ex Parte Merryman
    The imprisonment of John Merryman at Fort McHenry at the start of the Civil War becomes the foundation for rules of habeus corpus in the United States.
  • Dart Frogs (Encore)
    Dart frogs' rainforest homes are in great risk from the activities of humans. John has more.
  • "Halsted"
    Between the 1880s and the 1920s, Dr. William S. Halsted revolutionized the practice of hygiene and medicine at Johns Hopkins hospital, all the while…
  • "Halsted"
    Between the 1880s and the 1920s, Dr. William S. Halsted revolutionized the practice of hygiene and medicine at Johns Hopkins hospital, all the while…
  • Humanities in Healthcare
    How can the humanities be used to help doctors provide better care for their patients? Meg Chisolm, Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Education in…
  • "Halsted"
    Between the 1880s and the 1920s, Dr. William S. Halsted revolutionized the practice of hygiene and medicine at Johns Hopkins hospital, all the while…
  • Morning News Brief
    President Trump ended a policy that sent thousands of children to government-run facilities away from their parents. Critics say he created new problems — the children held may be there indefinitely.
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