On The Record
Monday, Wednesday and Friday 9:30 to 10:00 am
On The Record is co-hosted by Sheilah Kast and Ashley Sterner. Sheilah and Ashley are excited to share conversations with audacious artists, intrepid scientists, community leaders and more. And of course, tales from the beloved Stoop Storytelling Series!
Currently, you'll hear On The Record on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and the full hour of NPR's Morning Edition on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
On The Record is produced by Maureen Harvie and Melissa Gerr. Theme music created by Jon Ehrens. Logo designed by Louis Umerlik.
Latest Episodes
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We’ll go On the Record with a lawyer pushing to connect eviction prevention funds to community schools. Families with young children are the group most likely to face eviction. Plus, Baltimore’s plan to turn two downtown hotels into housing for the homeless. -
Tami Jacobs shares a Stoop Story about starting over with her mother in America. -
We’ll go On the Record with writer Mako Yoshikawa. Her estranged father’s death - the day before her wedding - set Yoshikawa on a journey to untangle his mental illness, his stalled career as a physicist, and his cruelty. What did she find? -
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. -
We On the Record to get the background on why the General Assembly is rewriting parts of the juvenile-justice reforms enacted two years ago. Legislative leaders say children need more structure; Youth advocates contend the proposed changes would hurt young kids. -
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. -
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 author Susan Muaddi Darraj. Her new novel traces intersecting lives of Palestinian-American families in Baltimore. It’s heart wrenching, and often funny. -
We go On the Record with Harriet Tubman’s great-great-great grand niece, and with the archeologist who unearthed Tubman’s childhood home. We talk about a new film about the discovery and what life was like for enslaved people on the Eastern Shore. -
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.
