Welcome to the 60th 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 and episode editor is Brian Yu. This is the second …
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Bring It On! – March 21, 2022: Dr. Gladys DeVane – “Come Sit with Me: Life In Poetry, Prose, and Plays”
On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell spend the hour with Dr. Gladys DeVane. She is an author, thespian, playwright, narrator, and co-founder of Resilience Productions. Credits: Today’s hosts are Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell. Bring It On!’s executive producer is Clarence Boone. The assistant producer is William Hosea. The show consultant and WFHB …
Read More »Bring It On! – March 14, 2022: Monroe County’s Sheriff Primary Ballot Features Two African-American Candidates – Troy Thomas & Ruben Marté
On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell speak to Troy Thomas and Ruben Marté, who are the two African-American candidates for Monroe County’s crowded primary election field for sheriff. Troy Harris was born in Bloomington and still calls it home today. Troy has served on the board of directors for Big Brothers Big Sisters …
Read More »Bring It On! – March 7, 2022: The O’Neal Tennis Sisters
Bring It On!’s host Clarence Boone spends the hour with sisters Briah and Taylor O’Neal, who are African-American junior competitive tennis-playing sisters and now children’s book authors. As reported in The Herald-Times on June 19, 2021, Briah and Taylor started playing tennis when they were 3 and 4 years old. They were inspired by Venus and Serena Williams to start …
Read More »Inside Outdoors – Saturday February 19, 2022
Hosts: Don Jordan and Rich Reardin WFHB executive producer is Kade Young
Read More »March 18, 2022: Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity
This week, we speak with Dan from Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity. MAPS is an exemplary grassroots abolitionist group, which arose out of the 2016 National Prison Strike and, specifically, the Kinross uprising in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Dan lays out this history, and gives us an inventory of COVID-19 in Michigan prisons, based on a zine of prisoner …
Read More »Eco Report – March 17, 2022
HEADLINES Two IU groups, Concerned Scientists at IU and Advocates for Science, recently sent a letter to the university administrators asking the university to analyze how it affects the climate, to commit to becoming carbon neutral by a specific date, and to create a climate task force to realize that plan. —Linda Greene A story in the IndyStar has good …
Read More »Hola Bloomington – March 11, 2022
Movimiento Cosecha conversan sobre su movimiento y lo que se vivió el 14 de febrero en ‘Un Dia Sin Inmigrante’ y sobre el evento para el 1º de Mayo. Movimiento Cosecha talk about their movement and what was experienced on February 14 in ‘A Day Without an Immigrant’ and about the event for the 1st of May.
Read More »March 11, 2022: Prison Profiteering with Brian Dolinar
This week, we share a conversation with Brian Dolinar. He has been on the show before, speaking about Parole Illinois. In this episode, he talks about Guardian RFID, a company that produces handheld devices that allow jail guards to do headcounts for inmates electronically via scanning. As he explains, various technologies are being used to expand the carceral net. He …
Read More »Local News Recap with Kade Young
WFHB News Director Kade Young joins host Michael Glab to discuss recent Bloomington news stories. WFHB citizen journalists have covered a series of demonstrations at Indiana University protesting the invasion of the Ukraine, the city’s pilot Leaf Program, the IU decision to end its student mask requirement, the decrease in COVID cases in Monroe County, Bloomington Mayor John Hamilton’s state …
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