In today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell talk about the history of black women in the military. From the Revolutionary War to present-day conflicts, women have proudly served in the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard as nurses, pilots, engineers, soldiers and other specialties. During World War I, about 35,000 women …
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May 27, 2022: The Problem of Politicization
This week we return to our conversation between Baye Sylvester and Focus Initiatives’ Jok Huerta. Both formerly incarcerated in Indiana, they described the circumstances that brought them to prison in a previous episode. In this segment, they talk about the way the prison system responds to politically-engaged prisoners. When prisoners become conscious and organized, the prison ramps the level of …
Read More »Hola Bloomington – May 27, 2022
Josefa Madrigal anuncia los dos talleres que la Comision de Asuntos Hispanos y Latinos de la Ciudad de Bloomington ofrecen después de la tragedia de Uvalde Texas. Queremos escuchar las preocupaciones de nuestras familias aquí en Bloomington. En el programa de Telemundo, narran y nos informan con noticias actualizadas sobre de nuestra comunidad Latina y la tragedia de Uvalde Texas. …
Read More »Prescription for Healthcare – Dr. Earl Robinson, Jr. and Rebecca Robinson and The Color of Medicine, June 2022
Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana. In the June show, hosts Karen Green Stone and Dr. Rob Stone speak with Dr. Earl Robinson, Jr. and Rebecca Robinson who tell us about making the documentary The Color of Medicine, the Story of Homer G Phillips Hospital in St. Louis, …
Read More »May 2022: The Neighborhood Planting Project
Earlier this spring, people across the eastern half of the US organized neighborhood planting projects in order to widely distribute and plant food-bearing trees. Their motivations are diverse, and we’ll hear from a range of them in this episode, but these tree-planters are often hoping to build a more verdant, autonomous, resilient, common life in the face of growing climate …
Read More »Bring It On! – May 23, 2022: Black Wealth, Part 2
On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell spend the hour with LaToya Williams, a wealth management advisor at Old National Bank. She serves her clients by helping them reach and exceed their financial goals. She is dedicated to understanding the unique needs of her clients and developing personalized strategies that focus on their big …
Read More »Bring It On! – May 16, 2022: Black Wealth, Part 1
On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell spend the hour with LaToya Williams, a wealth management advisor at Old National Bank. She serves her clients by helping them reach and exceed their financial goals. She is dedicated to understanding the unique needs of her clients and developing personalized strategies that focus on their big …
Read More »May 20, 2022: Atlanta’s “Cop City”
This week on Kite Line, we return to Atlanta’s proposed “Cop City”- a police training facility set to be built over a vast urban forest. People from across the city and the country have been organizing against its construction, which would make it the largest police training facility in the United States. People have been organizing protests in the streets, …
Read More »Bring It On! – May 9, 2022: Bloomington Primaries
On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell, discuss the results of the recent Bloomington primaries in the context of the upcoming November General Elections with Ruben Marte and campaign managers William Hosea and Nicole Brown. The results of the Bloomington Primaries are in. As for black candidates vying for nominations, here are the results: …
Read More »Bring It On! – May 2, 2022: Reparations for Bloomington African-Americans
On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell, spend the hour with Ashley Pirani, who is a candidate for County Council District #3. In February, leaders from Monroe County’s Black community discussed the possibility of reparations for historic racial injustices during the annual State of the Black Community Address. The Bloomington Black Strategic Alliance and Monroe …
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