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Today we’ll revisit our interview with historian Nancy Isenberg about her book, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America. But there’s a twist – I’ve re-edited the program to make use of a broader musical perspective, feeling like I had betrayed the spirit of the program in my original choices. Isenberg’s 2016 book dissects the stereotype “white …

Outside the mayor’s office, strikers asked Hamilton for a 50 percent reduction in emissions citywide by the year 2040, and that a plan be developed for reaching net zero by 2040. In addition, climate strikers asked for a 60 percent increase in urban tree coverage, with 40 percent dedicated to fruit bearing trees. Also included in their demands – a …

The City of Bloomington is suspending the Bloomington Community Farmers’ market for the next two Saturdays. Bloomington Mayor John Hamilton announced Monday the market will be closed August 3rd and 10th in response to escalating tensions over the presence of Schooner Creek Farms, a vendor with alleged ties to white nationalist groups. The Tuesday market will continue running at Sixth …

The city of Bloomington is proposing a one-year moratorium on addiction treatment facilities; Today may be the last day Bloomington commuters see police directing traffic at the Second and Third Street overpasses;Demonstrators took to the Monroe County Courthouse Square on Friday, calling for action on gun violence. Big Talk Extra: Bestselling mystery and crime author Michael Koryta released his thirteenth novel, “How …

The city of Bloomington will hold three public meetings this week, about the planned purchase of an armored vehicle for the city’s police department. The announcement of the planned purchase on February 6th drew criticism from Bloomington residents and Black Lives Matter advocates. Residents raised concerns about a lack of public input and the two-hundred, twenty five thousand dollar price …

Interchange offers a no-frills, 80-minute conversation with White Trash author Nancy Isenberg–just she and I talking on the telephone. In this extended episode you’ll hear Isenberg’s take on the Broadway sensation Hamilton as well as more about the necessity of education to “unfound” our national myths to create a citizen properly skeptical of political and cultural ideologies. RELATED Unfounded America: …