Podcast appearances and mentions of sean yoes

"Eroding History" tells the story of two Black communities on Deal Island, on Maryland's Eastern Shore, that are finding themselves at the intersection of sea level rise, historic racism and the disappearance of Black communities. It is a climate justice story, made by two Black filmmakers and a Jewish grandchild of refugees. Sean Yoes was born, raised and currently resides in West Baltimore. He has been a professional journalist since 1989. He co-wrote and co-produced Eroding History and joins Tom today. The film is presented by the The Environmental Justice Journalism Initiative. (Photo courtesy Sean Yoes)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We begin today with Midday on Politics.  Sean Yoes joins me. He's a former columnist for the Afro Newspaper, and as he keeps his journalist's eye trained on the local political scene, he's venturing into some independent media projects. He's now hosting a new podcast called Sean Yoes is Live from West Baltimore. As of tomorrow, you can find that on YouTube. He's also made a short film called Disruption:  Baltimore's Highway to Nowhere, available now on YouTube. Sean Yoes joins us on Zoom… See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bathsheba is an international motivational speaker, radio personality, performing artist, author, educational consultant, 7th grade English teacher, and the CEO and Founder of Cage Free Voices, LLC, a multi-service educational entertainment company, that seeks to educate youth and young adults who struggle with self-image and identity by constructing powerful learning experiences.  She is the playwright, producer, and lead actress for, From Divorce to Restoration.  From Divorce to Restoration is the first play to come out of the Cage Free Voices Theatre division.  The play was featured in the Page to Stage Theatre Festival at the Kennedy Center September, 2018 and Capital Fringe Festival in 2019. Ms. Smithen provides training and curriculum development to school districts, church leaders and educational publishing companies such that they may infuse youth culture in educational materials. Bathsheba has spent time training leaders within the Omaha School District, and Abyssinian Baptist Church. As a curriculum developer and writer, Ms. Smithen has made contributions to PEARSON, US, Urban Learning and Leadership Center, GEAR UP, REAL Women, and others. Born and raised in Virginia, Bathsheba Smithen is an International Baccalaureate diploma recipient, a graduate of An Achievable Dream Academy, and a Mary Hughes-Harley Davidson and McNair Scholar. She is also a graduate of Virginia Tech with a degree in Biology and holds a Master's in Health Systems Management from George Mason University. Her creative memoir, Who Cares What You Think...So What You Think?: A Journey Through the Mind, takes readers on the common journey from anger, disappointment, and hopelessness, to love, forgiveness, and peace. A companion book of her poetry entitled, No Longer Hidden as well as the sequel to the first; What Happens to “Them” When You Change, were released in 2013. Bathsheba has been featured in Urban Buzz, NURA, and Path Magazines, Pretty Period, The Daily Press along with many others. Ms. Smithen has made appearances on abc7, WHUT, WHRO, DCTV, WEAA 88.9, The Voice of the Community with multi-award winning journalist, Sean Yoes, Conversations Live with Cyrus Webb Blog Talk Radio, and WPFW 89.3, for her expertise in education, youth development, and entertainment.   Find out more about the following services: Cage Free Voices: https://cagefreevoices.com/ Cage Free Voices Online Learning: https://cfvonlinelearning.tutorbird.com/ Bathsheba Smithen- http://bathshebasmithen.com/  

On this special edition of Midday, six reflections on the April 27, 2015 Uprising, and how the community at the epicenter of that unrest - Sandtown-Winchester - has fared since 25-year-old Freddie Gray died from injuries he sustained while in police custody. At the heart of the protests and the rioting that erupted after Gray's funeral: anger and frustration with a system steeped in racism, inequity and apathy; and a police force that operated with seeming impunity. We begin with a focus on how community-police relations have evolved since 2015: Tom talks with Ashiah Parker, CEO of the Sandtown-based community development group, No Boundaries Coalition, and Sean Yoes, Baltimore Editor of the Afro American Newspaper and author of the book Baltimore After Freddie Gray: Real Stories from One of America’s Great Imperiled Cities. Then, a look at the rich cultural history of Pennsylvania Avenue, which runs from Penn North, the epicenter of the 2015 unrest, down to MLK Jr. Blvd. Tom's guests are Brion Gill, executive director of the new Pennsylvania Avenue Black Arts and Entertainment District and Jim Hamlin, owner of The Avenue Bakery. Finally, Tom talks with Todd Marcus, jazz musician and executive director of the Intersection of Change, and Daria Baylis, coordinator for IOC’s Jubilee Arts training and cultural programs.

On this special edition of Midday, six reflections on the April 27, 2015 Uprising, and how the community at the epicenter of that unrest - Sandtown-Winchester - has fared since a 25-year old black man named Freddie Gray died from injuries he sustained while in police custody. At the heart of the protests and the rioting that erupted after Gray's funeral: anger and frustration with a system steeped in racism, inequity and apathy; and a police force that operated with seeming impunity... (Special Election Notice - 7th Congressional District - Click to Read) We begin with a focus on how community-police relations have evolved since 2015: Tom talks with Ashiah Parker, chief executive officer of the Sandtown-based community development group, No Boundaries Coalition. Ms. Parker is also a member of the Maryland Commission to Restore Trust in Policing, a State commission formed to examine the culture of corruption that allowed the Gun Trace Task Force criminal enterprise to thrive for years. Tom also speaks with Sean Yoes, Baltimore Editor of the Afro American Newspaper and author of the book, Baltimore After Freddie Gray: Real Stories from One of America’s Great Imperiled Cities. Then, a focus on the rich cultural and commercial history of West Baltimore’s Pennsylvania Avenue corridor, which runs from Penn North, the epicenter of the 2015 unrest, down to MLK Jr Blvd, skirting Sandtown and Uptown along the way. Tom's guests are Brion Gill, the executive director of the new Pennsylvania Avenue Black Arts and Entertainment District; and Jim Hamlin, a community native and founding proprietor of The Avenue Bakery on Pennsylvania Avenue. In the final segment, two more perspectives from an innovative community development group that’s been working for more than two decades to move Sandtown forward. Tom talks with Todd Marcus, community activist, jazz musician and executive director of the non-profit Intersection of Change, and with Daria Baylis, coordinator for IOC’s Jubilee Arts training and cultural programs, which have engaged tens of thousands of West Baltimore teens and adults over the years. Audio for this program will be posted by 2pm today.

On today' show, Delegate Maggie Macintosh joins us with reaction to the passing of Maryland House Speaker, Michael Busch who died yesterday, one day before the 2019 General Assembly Session comes to a close. Later, as the leadership in Annapolis changes, what’s ahead for Baltimore City? This morning, the City Council unanimously called on Mayor Catherine Pugh to resign immediately. Pugh is the latest in a distressingly long list of Baltimore officials caught up in corruption scandals. How can public trust in government be restored? Tom is joined in studio by media consultant and political strategist Catalina Byrd; Director of Public Policy for Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle Dayvon Love; and Sean Yoes, the Baltimore Editor of the AFRO, and author of Baltimore After Freddie Gray: Real Stories from One of America’s Great Imperiled Cities.

The slogan of Baltimore Ceasefire 365 is simple: “Nobody kill anybody.” The mission of the organization is to re-direct our hearts and minds to the positive dimensions of our lives, so that we take better care of each other. Last weekend, the first Ceasefire of 2019 took place. As we do after every Ceasefire weekend here on Midday, we are joined by one of the organizers to touch base about how things went. Tom speaks with Baltimore Ceasefire co-founder Erricka Bridgeford; and Sean Yoes, the Baltimore Editor of the Afro Newspaper, and the author of ----Baltimore After Freddie Gray: Real Stories fromOne of America's Great Imperiled Cities.----

This program originally aired on July 16, 2018. It has been a little more than three years since the city of Baltimore was convulsed with violence following the funeral of Freddie Gray, who died in police custody on April 19, 2015. After the National Guard went back to their barracks, after the fire at the CVS Drugstore at the corner of Penn and North was extinguished, and after the curfews were lifted, there was a frenzy of finger pointing as to how the city responded to the crisis. The Mayor at the time, Stephanie Rawlings Blake, would decide a few months later not to seek re-election. A new police chief was appointed, and political leaders at the state and local levels promised decisive action to address the underlying problems of poverty and inequality that were seen as the root causes of the unrest. The business community and numerous non-profits pledged to redouble their efforts to help lift neighborhoods like Sandtown Winchester out of its economic and social morass.So, what, if anything, has changed since 2015?Today, a conversation about a book by Sean Yoes, a highly respected Baltimore journalist, who chronicles what happened in the turbulent weeks following Freddie Gray’s death, and the three years which followed. Sean Yoes is a good friend of this program. He is the Baltimore Editor of the Afro American Newspaper, and co-host of Truth and Reconciliation, a podcast that we are proud to have as part of WYPR’s Podcast Central. For several years, Sean hosted a show on WEAA Radio, and he even served as a producer of Midday back in the day, when our show was hosted by Dan Rodricks.His new book is a collection of selected essays that he has published in the Afro during the last three years. It’s called Baltimore After Freddie Gray: Real Stories from One of America’s Great Imperiled Cities.

A curated conversation with Sean Yoes - author of Baltimore After Freddie Gray: Real Stories From One of America's Great Imperiled Cities.  More than an author and journalist, Sean Yoes is an example of community leadership and how living an impactful life can bring about change.

This program originally aired on July 16, 2018. It has been a little more than three years since the city of Baltimore was convulsed with violence following the funeral of Freddie Gray, who died in police custody on April 19, 2015. After the National Guard went back to their barracks, after the fire at the CVS Drugstore at the corner of Penn and North was extinguished, and after the curfews were lifted, there was a frenzy of finger pointing as to how the city responded to the crisis. The Mayor at the time, Stephanie Rawlings Blake, would decide a few months later not to seek re-election. A new police chief was appointed, and political leaders at the state and local levels promised decisive action to address the underlying problems of poverty and inequality that were seen as the root causes of the unrest. The business community and numerous non-profits pledged to redouble their efforts to help lift neighborhoods like Sandtown Winchester out of its economic and social morass.So, what, if anything, has changed since 2015?Today, a conversation about a book by Sean Yoes, a highly respected Baltimore journalist, who chronicles what happened in the turbulent weeks following Freddie Gray’s death, and the three years which followed. Sean Yoes is a good friend of this program. He is the Baltimore Editor of the Afro American Newspaper, and co-host of Truth and Reconciliation, a podcast that we are proud to have as part of WYPR’s Podcast Central. For several years, Sean hosted a show on WEAA Radio, and he even served as a producer of Midday back in the day, when our show was hosted by Dan Rodricks.His new book is a collection of selected essays that he has published in the Afro during the last three years. It’s called Baltimore After Freddie Gray: Real Stories from One of America’s Great Imperiled Cities.

Guest commentator Sean Yoes, Baltimore editor of the Afro joins Sheilah Kast to discuss how candidates are proposing to address crime and opioids.

A regular feature here on Midday: The Afro Check-In, where we sit down with our colleagues at the Baltimore Afro Newspaper to talk about some of the issues and stories they are covering.Early voting in Mary’s primary election begins in less than 7 weeks. Several key state senate races, in West Baltimore’s 40th, 41st and 44th Districts are heating up. We’ll take a look at those.And, the “N” word, used by a Mexican-American rapper. Is that OK?And how about Kanye West? Given his apprarent Bromance with President Trump, The Afro and others are asking, “Is Kanye OK?”Kamau High is the Managing Editor of the Afro. Sean Yoes is the Baltimore Editor and the Host of the podcast, Afro First Edition. They joined Tom in Studio A.

On this edition of Midday's Afro Check-In: Frustration continues for commuters who rely on the Baltimore Metro System following the abrupt closure of the subway system for repairs two weeks ago. Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh has adds 20 positions in her office, including the recently created Office of African American Male Engagement. And in Annapolis, House Bill 2, which encourages minority and women participation in the state’s medical marijuana industry, is advancing, slowly, in the General Assembly. Will the MD Legislative Black Caucus achieve its goal of racial diversity in Maryland’s Medical Marijuana industry?We are joined by Kamau High, Managing Editor of The Afro and Sean Yoes, the paper's Baltimore Editor and the Host of the podcast, The Afro First Edition.

Today, two editors of the Afro Newspaper in Baltimore join Tom to discuss the firing of Police Commissioner Kevin Davis and the hiring of his Deputy Commissioner Daryll DeSousa. Mayor Catherine Pugh announced this change-up last Friday citing her dissatisfaction with the city's high homicide rate. DeSousa, a 30-year veteran of the force, now inherits the challenges of his predecessor such as the ongoing Gun Trace Task Force scandal and the Consent Decree with the Department of Justice.Kamau High is the Managing Editor of the Afro Newspaper. Sean Yoes is a columnist, editor and podcaster for the Afro.Audio will be made available this afternoon.

White supremacist rallies and counter protests, especially the events in Charlottesville that led to the murder of Heather Heyer and many people injured, are bringing the issues of institutional racism and white supremacy to the forefront of our national dialogue. After years of efforts to remove confederate statues in Baltimore, protests brought about their swift removal in the night. A Columbus monument was also protested. Sean Yoes explains what the monuments in Baltimore symbolize and efforts to remove them. Dedrick Asante-Muhammad speaks about the racial wealth divide and ways to bring greater equity. For more information, visit www.ClearingtheFOGRadio.org.