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Interchange – Cynical Extraction, Racial Liberalism, and Black Homeownership

Starting with real estate reforms in the 1970s supposedly instituted to open a path to the American Dream for Black citizens, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s new book, Race for Profit, a study of Black home ownership, argues that the turn from exclusion to inclusion was just another, less explicit, but equally damaging form of systemic racism. By the late 1960s and early …

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Daily Local News – June 19, 2019

The City of Bloomington and Indiana University are moving tonight’s Juneteenth celebration indoors; The Brown County Humane Society is raising money to construct a new animal shelter; City of Bloomington officials are pursuing plans for expanding the footprint of the new Fourth Street parking garage, but a neighboring property owner is fighting to keep his property from being absorbed into …

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Brown County Historic Town For Sale

The town of Story, Indiana is up for sale. The historic town, located in southern Brown County, is going on the market for 3.8 million dollars. That’s according to a press release from the Story Inn’s proprietor, Rick Hofstetter. The town of story, which encompasses over 17 acres, includes historic barns, outhouses, and buildings, dating back to the 1850s. The …

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Better Beware – Two Local Scams

Two scams are hitting right in our area, right now – a fake email about cancelling your email address, and fake postings that send strangers to your house, thinking it’s for rent! Better Beware is Produced by Richard Fish, at Community Radio WFHB in Bloomington, Indiana. Executive Producer is Wes Martin.

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Daily Local News – November 20, 2018

Today was Organization Day in the Indiana legislature, marking the first formal meeting of the State Senate and State House of Representatives since election day; The Monroe County Election Board reviewed 260 provisional ballots in a four-hour meeting, last Friday. Most ballots were rejected; The Richland Bean-Blossom School Board approved $5.2 million to build a connector between Edgewood Primary and …

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Bloomington Housing Market Doubles State Average

Bloomington’s housing market continues to outpace the rest of the state. The city already has the most expensive housing market in Indiana, and recent economic data shows housing market growth at double the state average. Property values in Monroe County jumped 12% in the last year, nearly double the average property value increase across the state. According to the Indiana …

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Bring It On! – June 27, 2016

On Today’s Bring It On, William Hosea and Clarence Boone welcome radio personality William Morris, and Bloomingtonian Donald Griffin, Jr. to discuss the fascinating work of real estate and more specifically how Blacks can get involved in this lucrative arena. William Morris is an attorney who is with Indiana Legal Services. His father was the first Black to become a …

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