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Today on Midday, a conversation about how school children and teenagers are taught the history of Black people, in America, and before they were enslaved…

It’s the Midday Healthwatch with Dr. Leana Wen. As the state of Maryland passes the 100,000 mark of confirmed COVID-19 cases, our state continues to see a…

Today on Midday, a conversation about the U.S. Postal Service, which is embroiled in a political and fiscal crisis unlike any in the service’s 228-year…

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating effect on the local and national economy. Maryland’s unemployment rate stands at about 8%, much better than…

Tom's next guest today is the founder and CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute, Robert P. Jones. In 2016, Dr. Jones published a critically…

Tom speaks to Sarah Hemminger, the co-founder of the mentoring program, Thread, about the challenges students and mentors face in the era of…

Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck joins Tom again today with updates on the nation's pandemic-era theater community, leading off with the 74th Annual…

As the final voters cast their ballots on this final day of this extraordinary and historic election, we want to turn our focus to one of the most crucial…

Last May, an Ohio-based company called Persistent Surveillance Systems was granted permission to conduct a six-month trial program in Baltimore -- paid…

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy implored Americans to “ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” Twenty years…

As administrators, teachers, and parents debate the safety of returning to in-person instruction, COVID infections are on the rise in virtually every…

Now, it's another edition of Smart Nutrition, with our good friend Monica Reinagel — a licensed nutritionist and host of the Nutrition Diva podcast, one…

Tom's next guest is D. Watkins, an editor-at-large for Salon and a lecturer at the University of Baltimore’s Klein Family School of Communication Design.…

In 2011, Tom's daughter, Miranda, served in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Anchorage, AK. Unrelated to the work she was doing in a chronic care facility,…

Tomorrow afternoon at 1:00 PM here on WYPR, producer Aaron Henkin and musician Wendel Patrick will unveil their season-opening installment of Out of the…

Cabaret Noir summons up a world where Philip Marlowe or Mike Hammer or, for that matter, Guy Noir would feel right at home.Stage versions of film noir…

WYPR’s Mary Rose Madden has been examining the Baltimore Police Department’s relationship with the city’s predominantly black population in her special…

Our series of Conversations with the Candidates continues today with Carl Stokes, one of seven Democratic candidates vying to be the next Baltimore City…

The preliminary data on the impact of the coronavirus on Black communities nationwide paints a grim picture. African Americans are infected with and dying…

As the number of new COVID-19 infections and the death toll from the pandemic continue to mount, universal testing for the coronavirus is still an…