On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell speak with Rashad Nelms, who has have served in leadership and management positions for the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) for 18 years and in more than 21 countries. As an International Executive, Rashad helps clients lead and manage more confidently, operate more efficiently and effectively, …

Today’s host of Bring It On!, William Hosea speaks with IU Law School Constitutional Professor Joseph Hoffman about the state of U.S. democracy after the Trump presidency. In summary, today’s show is about a number of legal topics and issues related to former President Donald Trump and his supporters. Several of these involve his perceived and/or alleged attempts to “Make …

Today’s program continues the discussion started last week about the Montford Point Marine Story. Today’s host, William Hosea speaks with Mallorie Berger, Reginald Moore, and Joe Geeter, public relations specialists for the National Montford Point Marine Association. Credits: Today’s host is William Hosea. Bring It On’s Executive Producer is Clarence Boone. Tonight’s Assistant Producer is Liz Mitchell. Show Consultant and …

HEADLINES All stories this week by Norm Holy Indiana is often where out-of-state corporations propose to put highly polluting processes. WFYI reports a company that wants to build a coal-to-diesel plant in southern Indiana has hit a roadblock. Flexsteel Industries Inc. has agreed to a consent decree that requires it to pay $9.8 million for the cleanup of contamination at …

En la primera parte de la WFHB Hola Bloomington, Josefa Madrigal entrevista a Sara Benham Ph.D., investigadora del desarrollo de lenguaje, con el programa de El Niño Científico. Hace una invitación a la comunidad para participar en la investigación y también hace una invitación para que participen en los eventos que se llevara a cabo en la biblioteca pública. En …

This week, we share part of a  conversation between Focus Initiatives’ Jok Huerta and Sincere. Sincere, who spent 13 years in Indiana prisons, and now organizes in Indianapolis with other formerly incarcerated people. Sincere speaks to the experience of  arriving and getting settled into prison.  She also movingly addresses the frequent abuses she witnessed and experienced. Content warning: sexual abuse …

While studying filmmaking at Columbia College in Chicago, John Duffy envisioned a career making fictional narrative movies, but events got in the way. Duffy watched as the War on Terror, institutionalized racism, and so many other 21st century American ills and missteps compelled him to turn his talents toward uncovering them. His work has focused on the 9/11 attacks and …

This month on Partisan Gardens, we interviewed Hannah Kass, a food systems researcher and graduate student at University of Wisconsin – Madison.  Kass recently published an article in the Journal of Peasant Studies that aimed to extend radical critiques of contemporary food systems and efforts to reform them.  The article, “Food anarchy and the  State monopoly on hunger,” has generated …

Marion County Corporation of Health and Human services faces a lawsuit from the family of an Indiana nursing home resident, now deceased, who allege his civil rights were violated. A lawsuit filed by the family of nursing home resident Giorgi Talevski reaches its climax as oral arguments are slated to come before the U.S. Supreme Court on November 8. The …

HEADLINES All stories this week are by Norm Holy. The proposed “Houston South Vegetation Management and Restoration Project” risked increasing sediment runoff into the South Fork of Salt Creek. Ultimately, the court ruled in favor of the Forest Service plan. Inside Indiana Business presented the results of a new report from Advanced Energy Economy which states that the increase in …