On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell, speak with Bo Petersen, a professional South African actress, currently living in the United States. She wrote, produced, and stars in Pieces of Me, an autobiographical play. She exposes the devastating, emotional cost of living secretly as a mixed-race family under the vicious racist apartheid regime and …

Bloomington’s largest food pantry is running a toy donation program this Christmas and they are seriously short on Secret Santas. The “Elf Dispatch” program at Pantry 279 crashed the pantry website when more than 1,600 families signed up in the first 24 hours. Program coordinator Cindy Chavez still needs 500 donors to meet the demand from local families in need. …

Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:15 PM. This month we interview Carol Paris MD, psychiatrist, former president of PNHP, on facing the crisis of moral injury in our healthcare system, and how it …

Hello and welcome to Eco Report. For WFHB, I’m Frank Marshalek. And I’m Robert Shull. Coming up in this episode, WFHB Environmental Correspondent Robert Shull spoke with local Urban Forester Haskell Smith about what it’s like to be a forester, the local tree canopy and more.  And now for your environmental reports: Indiana is the number one state in the …

El día de hoy nos visita Loida Rodríguez, Gerente de Programas de Desastre de la Cruz Roja Americana, para platicarnos sobre la misión humanitaria de esta organización sin fines de lucro y de sus servicios fundamentales.

In this episode, we have our monthly round up of prison disturbances, as compiled by Perilous Chronicle. Afterwards, we have a conversation with Sophia Johnson, also known as Candle, who is an anarchist writer who currently serving a sentence in Oregon. In this conversation, she talks about writing in prison, and her ongoing struggle to receive adequate health care.

Perhaps the only thing they love as much as music is teaching. Kleesattel and Williams get to do both as co-directors of the Bloomington branch of the New Horizons International Music Association. New Horizons Bloomington is an adult beginners orchestra that meets weekly at the Bell Trace Senior Living center. Newcomers to playing symphony orchestra instruments can learn the basics …

Welcome to the 84th episode 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 Andrew Pace and Melanie Castillo-Cullather. Our sound engineer is Michael Sears. Lunar New Year/ Spring Festival or Chinese New Year is a celebration …

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, December 6th, 2023. In today’s feature report, WFHB Correspondent Elyse Perry reports on the lack of affordable housing in Bloomington, the prevalence of homelessness and the resources to fight it. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, Better Beware – your weekly consumer-watchdog segment on WFHB …

This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, December 5th, 2023. In today’s feature report, WFHB Environmental Correspondent Robert Shull spoke with local Urban Forester Haskell Smith about what it’s like to be a forester, the local tree canopy and more. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, Lil Bub’s Lil Show – a …