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We’ll go On the Record with Bruce Goldfarb, who worked ten years in the Maryland’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. His new book, “OCME,” lifts the curtain on what happens after a suspicious death and on what threatens the office’s mission.
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On Presidents Day, Biographer David O. Stewart says George Washington taught himself the patient skills of politics, of listening more than he talked. And as he grew to grasp how evil slavery was, he feared speaking out against it would tear the young nation apart.
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We’ll go On the Record with David Goodrich. He bicycled nearly 3,000 miles along routes of the Underground Railroad, including Harriet Tubman’s escapes on the Eastern Shore, and wrote a book, "On Freedom Road." What did he learn?
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Mindfulness and meditation are not the first image most outsiders carry of Baltimore public schools. But three Baltimore men have taken their practice of mindfulness deep into dozens of city schools, and changed lives. Their new book is: “Let Your Light Shine.”
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We’ll go On the Record with April Ryan, to hear about her new book Black Women Will Save the World. For most of the decades Ryan has covered presidents, no other Black women were in the press room. She writes about pressures on Black women and their superpowers.
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We’ll go On the Record with Towson University history professor Andrew Diemer, who traces the fight for rights for Black people through the 19th century. His book is "Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad."
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We’ll go On the Record with musician Brendan Slocumb. During the pandemic, he turned his talent to writing. His first novel, The Violin Conspiracy, takes readers into a world of high-stakes performance, cutthroat auditions, and a stolen Stradivarius.
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We’ll go On the Record with Baltimore poet Anthony Moll. Their new book, titled, “You Cannot Save Here,” questions how we keep going when the world seems like it’s falling apart. We ask Moll about writing against the backdrop of the pandemic.
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Learning difficulties, mental illness, addiction. Jessie Dunleavy’s son, Paul felt like an outsider, switching schools over and over, and sought refuge in writing poetry. In her memoir, "Cover My Dreams in Ink," Dunleavy recounts the tragic lessons she learned.
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Journalist Baynard Woods descends from two families, the Baynards and the Woodses, who once enslaved hundreds of Black people. His new memoir, "Inheritance: An Autobiography of Whiteness," traces how he came to realize his responsibility for the system of privileges they set up.