First, we have our monthly round up of prison disturbances, as compiled by Perilous Chronicle. Afterwards, Angela Davis shares a statement in support of the Stop Cop City movement. And we finish sharing a panel hosted by Haymarket Books on the abolitionist struggle to Stop Cop City.  In this section, we hear organizer Kwame Olufemi of Community Movement Builders and …

She and her husband, Jared Thompson, already own a Bloomington landmark, The Comedy Attic. So when it looked as though another town landmark, the used and rare book shop Caveat Emptor, was about to close, Dayna Thompson stepped in and bought the place. The Thompsons, she jokes, are out to corner the Bloomington market in break-even businesses. Now more than …

Welcome to the 75th episode of Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio. Hearabouts is produced by Indiana University’s Asian Culture Center in collaboration with WFHB. We ask critical questions about identity, culture, community, and shared assumptions. This episode is produced by Ming Wang and Joanna Kung. In this episode, we interviewed Toyia Moss, the Safe and City Director for Bloomington, to …

Today’s hosts of Bring It On!, William Hosea and Dana Black, spend the hour discussing and analyzing the impacts and implications of the first indictment of a former U.S. President, Donald J. Trump with two recurring Bring It On! guests: Robin Winston is a  political strategist and former State Democratic Party Chair.  In 1999, he made history when he became …

This week we continue sharing a panel hosted by Haymarket Books on the abolitionist struggle to stop Cop City.  In this section, we hear Hugh Farrell in conversation with Sarah Haley, a leading historian of Black feminism in the South, organizer Kwame Olufemi of Community Movement Builders, and journalist Micah Herskind. Haley roots contemporary resistance to Cop City within a longer …

On today’s Bring It On! broadcast, hosts Clarence Boone and Leila Randle spend the hour with Solange Marcum. Solange provides a  very impressive list of cosmetic services while operating under a unique business model as also an instructor & owner of Lash Envy Academy. She joins us this evening to share her remarkable story – a journey to being a …

Coming up later in the program, correspondent Zyro Roze gets an in depth update from Steven Stewart, Hoosier National Forest Program Director for the Indiana Forest Alliance (IFA), on the latest developments regarding grassroots activists’ pressure on state officials to rethink the Buffalo Springs Restoration Project. And now for your environmental reports: How will Indiana respond to new rules about …

This week, we continue sharing Haymarket Press’s panel, “the Abolitionist Struggle against Cop City.”  In this segment, Stuart Schrader and Micah Herskind fill in the past  40 years of historical context for why the Cop City project is being pushed through specifically in Atlanta.  Schrader teaches at Johns Hopkins University and wrote Badges without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing.  …

This month Civic Conversations welcomed Michael Lippert, a journalist with the Indiana Capital Chronicle, to discuss the 2022 American Health Rankings Report.  In the podcast, Leppert talks to our host, Jim Allison, about where Indiana stands regarding public health in the United States. Overall, Indiana ranks 35th among all fifty-two states but ranks 45th in the nation for public health.  …

As part of our continuing exploration regarding the history of special education, we have covered the critical special education court cases that preceded last January’s supreme court case regarding special education Perez V Sturgis. Our journey so far has taken to the earliest case 1893’s Watson V Cambridge to 1919’s Beattie V Antigo Board of Education before reaching last week’s …