Midday
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What happens when a predominately-white evangelical megachurch in the Midwest creates a program to address racial inequity?
Dr. Hahrie Han followed the journey of Crossroads Church in Ohio, where Pastor Chuck Mingo said he felt called by God to combat racial injustice, within the church and their wider Cincinnati community.
Han's book is called Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church. She takes a deep look into a congregation's wrestling with race, political divisiveness and fraught political times.
Han is a political scientist and the head of the SNF Agora Institute, a scholarly and public forum dedicated to advancing dialogue and civic engagement, at Johns Hopkins University.
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Baltimore Public Media's New/Next Film Festival returns to the Charles Theatre October 3 - 6. This year's event has expanded to showcase more than 100 films from filmmakers near and far.
Today on Midday we discuss the inspiration for this year's festival, review a few featured films and highlight contributions from the Maryland cinematic community.
Guests for today's show include:
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Sam Sessa, Director of Events and Community Management for Baltimore Public Media
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Eric Hatch, Co-Founder and Director of Festival Programming
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Alexi Wasser, Director of the opening night film 'Messy'
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Max Weiss, Editor in Chief of Baltimore Magazine and film and pop culture critic
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Jed Dietz, Founder and Former Director of the Maryland Film Festival
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Midday Theater Critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews & Juliet, on stage at the Hippodrome through Saturday, September 28.
Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare’s great tragedies, but & Juliet adapts the story with humor and pop music.
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Baltimore is seeing a much lower rate of violent crime than before and during the pandemic. As of today, there have been 57 fewer homicides in the city of Baltimore than at this time last year. Surrounding areas however, such as Anne Arundel and Harford County, are grappling with a slight rise in gun violence.
Midday begins today with a conversation about efforts at the federal level to improve public safety, including a newly announced initiative from the White House.
Stefanie Feldman, the Director of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, joined Midday to discuss the new executive order targeted at reducing firearms and improving active shooter school drills.
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The Beyond Boundaries Civic Engagement and Democracy Conference, taking place Saturday, focuses on having an impact in the elections, and in the aftermath.
Kendra Nelson of the No Boundaries Coalition, Charly Carter of Step Up Maryland and the artist Ashley Esposito of Unity Hall talk tell us about their mission.
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