Melissa Gerr
Senior ProducerMelissa Gerr is a Senior Producer for On the Record. She started in public media at Twin Cities Public Television in St. Paul, Minn., where she is from, and then worked as a field producer for Oregon Public Broadcasting in Portland. She made the jump to audio-lover in Baltimore as a digital media editor at Mid-Atlantic Media and Laureate Education, Inc. and as a field producer for "Out of the Blocks." Her beat is typically the off-beat with an emphasis on science, culture and things that make you say, 'Wait, what?'
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We’ll go On the Record with Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott as he runs for a second term. We ask how he’s addressing crime, property taxes, schools, pandemic relief money, the city’s dwindling population and the proposal to shrink the city council.
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We go On the Record with historian Edda Fields-Black. Her book “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War" tells of a crucial Civil War raid. Under cover of darkness, Harriet Tubman and the Union Army, along with Black enlisted men, liberated 700 enslaved people along the Combee River of South Carolina.
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Here's a Stoop Story from Aisha Alfadhalah about the origin of the Meera Kitchen collective restaurant.
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We go On the Record with Mahalia! A gospel play at Arena Players portrays in song the life of the Queen of Gospel. Plus, at the Banneker Douglass Museum, 60 years after the Civil Rights Act--revisiting and reimagining the Civil Rights era.
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For more than five decades the Women’s Law Center of Maryland has worked to address the needs of women. We hear from the women who run it, and from a mother who has benefitted from it.
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We go On the Record to preview the PBS documentary, Fly With Me! A story of pioneering young women -- called stewardesses back then -- whose fight against sexist labor practices landed them on the frontlines of the women's movement.
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Here's a Stoop Story from Shaun Adamec about crash landings ... and getting back on your feet.
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We go On the Record with former mayor and now mayoral candidate Sheila Dixon. How would she combat chronic school absenteeism, … make government more accountable? Why does she think quality-of-life crime, not violent crime, spurs residents to leave?
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The ‘Elizabeth Talford Scott Community Celebration’ will honor her creative legacy through exhibits, performances and education at nine institutions in Baltimore. Here is a preview!
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Here’s a Stoop Story from Temi Oni about systematically going after your dreams.