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Today we honor Martin Luther King Jr. with a special edition of Bring It On! Tonight at 7 PM, the City of Bloomington is honoring the MLK holiday with a celebration at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. We are recognizing the 2020 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day with two riveting interviews. We’ll begin our show with a powerful discussion with Ms. …

Host Clarence Boone spends the hour with William Morris, the host of WFIU’s jazz program Just You and Me, for which he created the upbeat “Soul Kitchen” featuring funky jazz, R&B, gospel, and rock. He began at WFIU after five years of volunteering here at community radio station WFHB, where he hosted such programs as the Tuesday Afternoon Music Mix, Hora Latina, …

Tonight we have the pleasure of speaking with William Vance, president of the Monroe County Branch of the NAACP. The NAACP – National Association forthe Advancement of Colored People, is the oldest, largest and strongest civil rights organization in the United States. The principal objective of the NAACP is to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of minority …

Part One: Hosts William Hosea and James Sanders welcome Dr. Terri Frances, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies and Director of The Black Film Center/Archive at The Media School at Indiana University. She is also a Bring It On! regular guest. Today’s discussion focuses on When They See Us, a 2019 American drama web television miniseries created, co-written, and …

Hosts Amrita Myers and William Hosea speak with Notre Dame University Director of Diversity and Inclusion, Eric Love, about police relations in South Bend’s black community and Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s Presidential hopes in the aftermath of the fatal police shooting of South Bend resident, Eric Logan, a 54-year-old father of seven, on June 16, 2019. CREDITS: Our hosts today are …

The Monroe County Chapter of the NAACP and the Unitarian Universalist Church of Bloomington’s Racial Justice Task Force released a study last year, examining 20 years of racial inequality in the criminal justice system, education, housing and employment. At the State of the Black Community, speakers presented the results of that study. In today’s second part of a two part …

Welcome to Part Two of our Civil Rights Episode of Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio! Hearabouts is produced by WFHB and Indiana University’s Asian Culture Center. We ask critical questions about identity, culture, community and shared assumptions. On today’s episode, we have Abby Ang, activist and doctoral student in Indiana University’s English Department. Ang speaks on her political activist work …

Welcome to the Part One of our Civil Rights Episode of Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio! Hearabouts is produced by WFHB and Indiana University’s Asian Culture Center. We ask critical questions about identity, culture, community and shared assumptions. On today’s episode, we have Carwina Weng, Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law Professor, where she teaches her Disability Law Clinic course; …

This week, we return to the history of black radicalism within the prison system. You can hear more from Dr. Micol Seigel and Dr. Garrett Felber about this in last week’s episode. Early in this episode, the prisoner reporting on Operation PUSH, the sit-down strike in Florida’s prisons, mentions being transferred to a different area in order to prematurely stifle …

In tonight’s latest feature of “Bring It On!” the hosts William Hosea and Cornelius interview three guests.  The first is the show’s very own Clarence Boone. The other guests are “Bring It On!” contributors Beverly Calender-Anderson and by phone, Amrita Myers.  Tonight’s discussion focuses on the sexual misconduct that has dominated the news for several weeks. Also the opening of …