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Interchange – Mr. Trotter, the President, and the Klan with Kerri Greenidge

Because I want to use this introduction to correct a gap in the show today – entirely of my doing – I’ll have to rush a bit to tell you what you will hear about. Here we go: Booker T. Washington and Racial Conservatism Washington’s Tuskegee Institute and his “machine politics” W. E. B. Du Bois and the Niagara Movement …

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Mural Depicting KKK Stays at IU’s Woodburn Hall

A controversial mural at Indiana University depicting Ku Klux Klan members burning a Christian cross and carrying the American flag during a Klan gathering will remain in Woodburn Hall. IU Provost and Executive Vice President Lauren Robel said the mural cannot be removed due to the type of paint used. The mural has created controversy over the past 70 years. …

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Daily Local News – October 9, 2017

Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill has joined the chief counsels of 24 other states in support of editing and amending the 2015 Waters of the United Sates bill; Vice President Mike Pence walked out of an Indianapolis Colts NFL football game after players knelt during the national anthem; A controversial mural depicting Ku Klux Klan members burning a Christian cross …

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Interchange – The Same Old Hate: The Reactionary Right Rides Again

A mass of torches in the darkness reveal faces full of rage — white, (mostly male) faces. Public violence and intimidation unmasking raw hateful prejudice and resurgent white supremacy. Is this the deep south of the 1920’s? No, it happened in a college town last weekend: Charlottesville, Virginia. Our show is about the Reactionary Right in the United States of America; …

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Interchange – Hoosier: What’s In a Name?

Hosts Doug Storm and Trish Kerle’ are joined by historian Jim Madison to discuss the Hoosier through history. Madison has just published a new book, Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana, published by Indiana University Press. Our three segments cover the origin and cultural identity embodied in the very word “Hoosier,” the geographical make-up of the state and attendant migration …

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