Sheilah Kast
Host, On The RecordSheilah Kast hosts On The Record, Monday-Friday, 9:30-10:00 am. She came to WYPR from NPR 2006. In 2014 she and her team at Maryland Morning won a prestigious Dupont-Columbia University award for a year-long probe of inequality in the Baltimore region called “The Lines Between Us.” Sheilah learned how to report the news at The Washington Star, and learned the craft of broadcasting at ABC News, where she covered the White House, Congress, and the 1991 Moscow coup that signaled the end of the Soviet empire. She has launched and hosted two weekly interview shows on public TV.
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We talk with JHU Prof. Martha S. Jones about a very personal meditation on her own family, and her own experience navigating a color line she describes as jagged, shifting and threatening. -
We talk with WYPR health reporter Scott Maucione about his coverage of the mass opioid overdose in Penn-North neighborhood. -
Here's a Stoop Story from Andy Parsley about the courage to heal. -
A new podcast from NAMI destigmatizes mental illness. We talk with the creator. -
How are Syrian families rebuilding their lives after a decade-and-a-half of civil war? What is the status of funding? We ask the head of Catholic Relief Services, based in Baltimore. -
Why does a story about electric rates in Baltimore today begin with dreams in Dubai? -
Trump Administration's star witness against Kilmar Abrego Garcia: Three felony convictions, multiple deportations, but the witness now gets a chance to stay in the U.S. -
Stacy Chambers tells a story about feeling love even through the thorns.
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While homicides have been trending down, suicides by gun keep rising to record levels. What’s behind the surge? -
Dr. Peter Rabins talks about his book: "Is it Alzheimer’s? 101 Answers to Your Most Pressing Questions About Memory Loss and Dementia".
