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’ll go On the Record with the director and the historian behind a film that tells the story of the enslaved couple Mary and Daniel Bell, who fought in court for their family’s freedom, were thwarted, saw their children sold south, and were at last connected again.
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We go On the Record to hear how the Dundalk community is faring after the Key Bridge collapse. Plus, Pompeian Olive Oil, employer of locals for more than a century, has kept workers on the job and their product flowing. Can they keep it up?
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We go On the Record with WYPR’s News Director Matt Bush and Baltimore Banner politics reporter Pamela Wood to recap the 446th session of the Maryland General Assembly.
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We’ll go On the Record with Baltimore Banner education reporter Kristen Griffith to learn why Black teachers in Maryland are leaving the education system at higher rates than their white colleagues. Plus, we talk with three Black teachers -- whose stories differ widely.
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We go On the Record with Pokemoke Indian Nation citizen and cultural ambassador Drew Shuptar-Rayvis. He walks us through a new Maryland Archives collection that depicts Native life on Maryland’s Eastern shore -- past and present.
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Here's a Stoop Story from Sophia Garber about her trek on the Appalachian Trail … and all that it's meant for her in her life.
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We go On the Record with police Commissioner Richard Worley, six months into his job as Baltimore City’s top cop. We ask about guns, young people committing crimes, recruiting more officers, and connecting cops with the community.
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We’ll go On the Record with Shannon Sneed, former city councilwoman running again for Baltimore City Council president. How does she expect the bridge collapse and port closure to affect Baltimore? What would she do about crime, and the city’s shrinking population?
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The crews of the Dali and seven other ships are stuck in the port. How do local ministries help these seafarers?
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We’ll go On the Record with Tom Perez, senior adviser to President Biden and former Maryland candidate for governor. What did Perez hear from the families of workers killed in the bridge collapse?