This program was originally aired on December 14, 2020. Hosts Clarence Boone and William Hosea spend the hour with Karen Freeman-Wilson, the two-term mayor of Gary, IN from 2012 to 2019 and the Attorney General of Indiana from 2000 to 2001. Fr. Mayor Freeman-Wilson was born and raised in Gary. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law …

During sweltering heat on Saturday, Pridefest took place in downtown Bloomington after happening virtually last year. Pridefest is an annual street festival organized by Bloomington PRIDE, a non-profit organization that advocates for the LGBTQIA+ community.  The festival featured a vendor expo, workshops with activists and experts, live music, drag shows and MPG wrestling.  WFHB Community Radio was a vendor at this …

For this episode, we interviewed urban farmers across Chicago, along with a mutual aid organization that stocks its sidewalk fridges with fresh produce from some of these same farms.  Their work is not only meeting urgent needs, but is helping to sketch out a horizon for another kind of life, grown inside the shell of the metropolis. The history of …

Escuchen a la informacion sobre la beca del siglo 21 por el Consulado Mexicano de Indianapolis y La Plaza basado en Indianapolis.  Hacen su entrevista sobre la beca del siglo 21 y la importancia que es para que su hijo/hija que esten en el septimo/octavo grado se enscriba.  Esta informacion es para los estudiantes y para los padres de familia. …

For our episode this week, we share the second of a two-part conversation between Nicole Fleetwood and Micol Seigel. Fleetwood’s recent book, Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, is a wide-ranging exploration of visual art made by people in prison. Fleetwood explains “I started working on this book as a way to deal with the grief about so …

Only the second music director in the history of community radio WFHB, Christine Brackenhoff took the mantle of command from Jim Manion, who retired this past spring. Brackenhoff brings fresh qualities to the job as well as to the station as a whole: she’s young, eager, and represents WFHB’s goal of reaching as many diverse demographics as possible. We hope …

HEADLINES Two environmental groups are putting real-time air monitoring data in the hands of citizens and giving those community members the power to make informed decisions about their health each day. —Norm Holy After losing an Indiana Court of Appeals decision, opponents of the proposed Lone Oak solar farm are asking the Indiana Supreme Court to review their case against …

Today’s hosts Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell continue last week’s discussion about COVID-19 in the classroom. This week they focus the discussion on the medical and scientific level with guests, Tom Hrisomalos, MD, and Carol Weiss-Kennedy. Tom Hrisomalos, MD is an infectious disease specialist with IU Health Southern Indiana Physicians. His medical school, infectious disease fellowship, and internal medicine residency …

We invite anyone who would like to be included in the program to PM us at ‘Inside Outdoors’ on Facebook, and if you know how to ‘Zoom’ we’ll invite you on the show! Hosts are Don Jordan, ‘Buddy Bill’ Moser, D Alan Bronnenberg, and Rich Reardin ‘Inside Outdoors’ engineer, host and Inside Outdoors executive producer is Rich Reardin WFHB executive …

We start out by sharing a statement from Jailhouse Lawyers Speak about the Shut ‘Em Down campaign, scheduled for August 21st and September 9th, historic days for Black struggle inside and against prison. Afterwards, we share the first of a two-part conversation between Nicole Fleetwood and Micol Seigel. Fleetwood’s recent book, Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, …