Stay Connected***No longer adding new episodes*** On The Record was co-hosted by Sheilah Kast and Ashley Sterner. Sheilah and shared conversations with audacious artists, intrepid scientists, community leaders and more. And of course, tales from the beloved Stoop Storytelling Series.
On The Record was produced by Melissa Gerr. Jon Ehrens created the theme music. Louis Umerlik designed the logo.
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Here are two interfaith Stoop Stories to ring in the holiday season. The first is from Ana Goldseker, who professes that all she wants for Hanukkah is … Christmas! And a second story from Erica Rimlinger about a wedding her relatives will never forget!
You hear more stories at Stoopstorytelling.com.
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How do you ring in the New Year? Dinner with friends? A movie? Fireworks? Creating a list of resolutions?
For thirty years, hundreds of people in Baltimore have begun their evening festivities at St. Ignatius Catholic Church at ‘The New Year’s Eve Interfaith Prayer Celebration.’ Guests are welcomed at 8:00 pm with a prelude from the St. Ignatius Choir and instrumentalists, led by Paul Teie. Then the service at 8:30: an hour full of gratitude and blessings that are voiced by civic, political, arts and education leaders, as well as by clergy of many faiths.
We heard from organizer, congregant and Interfaith Committee co-chair Donna Price and Rev. William J. Watters, S.J., assisting priest at St. Ignatius.
Links: St. Ignatius Catholic Church at ‘The New Year’s Eve Interfaith Prayer Celebration.’
Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers mharvie@wypr.org 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers mgerr@wypr.org 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his sbdawes@wypr.org 410-235-1472
Words are powerful. And can be dangerous. No where is that more evident than on social media platforms where hateful speech is spewed -- and sometimes spreads at alarming speed. Can it be silenced? If so, how?
We’re joined by Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the ‘Center for Countering Digital Hate.’ The nonprofit, based in the U.K. and Washington, DC, works to quell hate and disinformation by going after the online platforms that enable its global spread.
Then we hear Baltimore Jewish Council executive director Howard Libit about ‘Shine A Light,’ a national effort to dispel and counter anti-Semitic language and behavior that has been on the rise.
Links: Center for Countering Digital Hate, CCDH Blog and Research, Shine A Light, JCC Illumination Celebration: FireLight on 12/18 at 5pm.
Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers mharvie@wypr.org 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers mgerr@wypr.org 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his sbdawes@wypr.org 410-235-1472
Wrapped in shiny wrapping paper or careworn with notes scrawled in the margins-- books are gifts that give again and again. They offer a window into the heart of the author and can open our minds to a different view of the world.
Conni Strittmatteris the Youth & Family Engagement Manager for Baltimore County Public Library. Here are her book picks for kids:
"Farmhouse," by Sophie Blackall
"The Three Billy Goats Gruff," by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen
"Good Night, Little Bookstore," by Amy Cherrix
"Ty’s Travels," series by Kelly Starling Lyons
"The Secret Explorers," series by SJ King
"Aven Green," series by Dusti Bowling
"Cookie Chronicles," series by Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr
"Red, White, and Whole," by Rajani LaRocca
**Rajani LaRocca will be visiting several BCPL branches on March 11th.
"Black Brother, Black Brother," by Jewell Parker Rhodes
**Jewell Parker Rhodes will join BCPL on January 24th at 7 p.m. for a Zoom event.
"Whiteout," by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon
"Victory. Stand! Raising My Fist," for Justice by Tommie Smith and Derrick Barnes
"How To Excavate a Heart," by Jake Maia Arlow
Find BCPL events here. Authors visits are listed here.
Carla Du Pree is executive director of CityLit Project. Here is her list of recommendations for adult readers:
"Braiding Sweetgrass," by Robin Kemmerer
"Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden," by Camille Dungy
"If I Survive You," by Jeffrey Escoffery
"When We Were Sisters," by Fatimah Ashgar
"Bigger Than Bravery," edited by Valerie Boyd
"Floaters," by Martin Espada
"Don't Count Me Out," by Rafael Alvarez
"Pomegranate," by Helen Elaine Lee
"Rest is Resistance," by Tricia Hersey
"How We Heal," by Alex Elle
Check out the NPR "Books We Love" list.
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Violence between intimate partners may start with emotional or verbal abuse before becoming physical. Ojeda Hall of One Love Foundation talks about helping young people to differentiate between healthy and unhealthy relationships.
Then, Lisa Nitsch of the House of Ruth describes how the nonprofit serves families and reeducates partners who are abusive. Find the wishlist here.
This interview originally aired on October 13, 2022.
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December is HIV/AIDS Awareness month. How far has treatment and prevention come? Why is there still no vaccine against HIV, when it was possible to develop a vaccine against COVID so quickly? What is it about the human immunodeficiency virus that has thwarted scientists for almost 40 years?
For that, we turn to Dr. Robert Gallo, who the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and co-founded the Global Virus Network.
Then, infections and hospitalizations for RSV - respiratory syncytial virus - caught hospital systems across the country off guard. A Maryland Department of Health dashboard tracking RSV shows hospitalizations climbed rapidly from September to October, soaring from the high thirties to a peak of 263. In the last week of November, hospitalizations were down to 76 children.
We speak with Dr. Jason Custer, medical director of the pediatric intensive care unit at the University of Maryland Children’s Hospital, and an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers mharvie@wypr.org 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers mgerr@wypr.org 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his sbdawes@wypr.org 410-235-1472
When a person’s stress system is activated by trauma or crisis it can be life saving. It’s where fight or flight response comes from - and that allows us to get to safety.
But even when safety has been achieved, trauma can take a lasting toll on our physical, mental and emotional health. Research points to how trauma can remain in a body even on a cellular level.
Our guest today helps people who have experienced violence or trauma to release it and get beyond it -- through movement programs offered by Ballet After Dark. We spoke with founder and accomplished dancer/choreographer Tyde-Courtney Edwards.
Links: Ballet After Dark
Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers mharvie@wypr.org 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers mgerr@wypr.org 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his sbdawes@wypr.org 410-235-1472
Here’s a Stoop Story from Dovile Mark about spending her life chasing the ultimate adrenaline rush. You can hear her story and others at Stoopstorytelling.com .
Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers mharvie@wypr.org 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers mgerr@wypr.org 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his sbdawes@wypr.org 410-235-1472
Today we meet two Open Society Institute-Baltimore 2022 community fellows and hear about their projects.
There was a lot was going on in Alanna Taylor’s life a few years ago. She was under so much stress, at one point she fainted in the grocery store. It turned out the episode got her connected to health care … and got Taylor thinking about what women over 40 need to be successful. That was the germ of Taylor’s project 'Bronze Girl Collective.'
And then: when most people look at a bus … they see a mode of transportation. Our next guest looks at a bus and sees … a potential mobile shower unit. Bria Evans tells us about 'Fresh Start Mobile Services' that serve people experiencing homelessness.
Links: OSI Open Society Institute Baltimore Community Fellows, 2022
Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers mharvie@wypr.org 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers mgerr@wypr.org 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his sbdawes@wypr.org 410-235-1472
Most of us, at some point, worry about our weight. For some, the worry dogs us, takes on a life of its own. Lawyer Rabia Chaudry tells her version of that ordeal--and what it took to put the misery behind her, in her new book Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: a Memoir of Food, Fat and Family.
Links: Fatty, Fatty, Boom, Boom, speaking event on Dec. 8, Writers LIVE at Pratt Library.
Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers mharvie@wypr.org 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers mgerr@wypr.org 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his sbdawes@wypr.org 410-235-1472
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