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Baltimore-based plant stylist Hilton Carter joins Midday to discuss growing and planting for the indoor gardener with his new book, "The Propagation Handbook."

Workplace drama is everywhere, if you know where to look.

Funny women. Crazy stories.

Can examining the past help explain present race relations in the United States?

Tom talks with Meghan McCorkell, the Chief of Marketing, Communications, & Strategy at the Enoch Pratt Free Library.

There’s really nothing new about the crisis at our southern border; global migration has been a serious issue for decades, and the numbers are only increasing.

Fables and fairytales are often more than just great stories.

Two great new memoirs to listen to.

The highs and lows of the International Art World.

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.