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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 go On the Record with Owen Elliot-Kugell, author of the memoir 'My Mama, Cass.' That’s Cass Elliot, born in Baltimore, famous in ‘The Mamas and the Papas’ in the ‘60s, forging a solo career-- when she died 50 years ago.
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Here’s a Stoop Story from Susan Kim about keeping her cool at the pool.
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We'll go On the Record with USA Today Washington Bureau chief Susan Page to discuss the end of President Biden’s campaign and the historic presidential bid of Kamala Harris.
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We go On the Record with Natasha Murphy from Black Girls Vote, to hear how the Baltimore-based nonprofit engages young, Black voters — and we learn about their concerns.
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We go On the Record with Ms. Agvocate USA! Sixth-generation cattle farmer Lindsey Jacobs wants us all to grasp where our food comes from and who provides it. We spend a day at the farm with her and lots of cows!
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Here’s a Stoop Story from Geoffrey Danek about … goats!
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Confused about student loans? We ask an advocate how to untangle the maze of repayment.
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The Blueprint for Maryland’s Future wants every student to graduate ready for college or the workforce. What progress are districts making?
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We go On the Record with the co-founder of ArtsCentric, whose work centers on people of color and with the lead actor in its current production, “The Scottsboro Boys.” In music, it tells the true tale of nine Black teen-agers falsely charged in the Jim Crow south.
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Here’s a Stoop Story from Jay Herzog about a close call in theater production that he will never forget!