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WFHB Local News – July 6th, 2023

This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, July 6th, 2023. Later in the program, WFHB Correspondent Leo Paes reports on racial inequality in sports. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, the Indiana Supreme Court upheld its abortion ban – saying it doesn’t violate the state’s constitution. WFHB News Correspondent Brookelyn Lambright has …

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Sports and Civil Rights: European and American Sports

In the past few years, racist incidents have been on the rise in professional leagues around the world, the most recent case involving Real Madrid player Vinicius Junior in Spanish soccer. Vinicius has been attacked by fans, players, and even the La Liga commissioner. When the commissioner of one of the biggest soccer leagues in the world gets defensive about …

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WFHB Local News – Statehouse Roundup, Voices in the Street, Sports News Brief

This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, June 15th, 2023. Later in the program, we have Voices in the Street – public opinion polls in the streets of Bloomington produced by WFHB’s Youth Radio. More in the bottom half of our program. Also coming up in the next half hour, we have a new installment of the WFHB Sports …

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Bring It On! – March 7, 2022: The O’Neal Tennis Sisters

Bring It On!’s host Clarence Boone spends the hour with sisters Briah and Taylor O’Neal, who are African-American junior competitive tennis-playing sisters and now children’s book authors.  As reported in The Herald-Times on June 19, 2021, Briah and Taylor started playing tennis when they were 3 and 4 years old. They were inspired by Venus and Serena Williams to start …

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Can Sports Change the World?

An Indiana University sports media scholar weighs in on the diplomatic boycott against China in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. The United States will not send officials to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing as a protest to China’s “ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang and other human rights abuses.”  Human rights groups accuse China of detaining more than …

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January 31, 2020: Combat and Incarceration, Part Three

This week’s episode ends our series of conversations with Valrice “Whop” Cooper. Whop is the legendary cornerman who learned his craft training prisoners in the Louisiana DOC’s boxing program. For this episode, they discuss how he was punished inside the prison system for standing up for his trainees, how these athletes stay fit behind prison walls, the network of prison …

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January 24, 2020: Combat and Incarceration, Part Two

This week continues our set of conversations with Valrice “Whop” Cooper, the legendary cornerman who learned his craft training prisoners in the Louisiana DOC’s boxing program. For this episode, we discuss how he got into the game, the politics behind such programs as the PAL, or Police Athletic League, and what it takes to succeed as a trainer, and as …

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January 17, 2020: Combat and Incarceration, Part One

This week starts our series of conversations with Valrice “Whop” Cooper, the legendary cornerman who learned his craft training prisoners in the Louisiana DOC’s boxing program. For this episode, we discuss his thirty-five-year prison term that began in 1976 at the age of 17, and how coming into contact with the Black Power movement- one of the first recognized prison …

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Hola Bloomington – November 29, 2019

Locutras, Lizbeth Martinez y Diana Reyes, entrevistan a su invitada Alison Ortis – Cortes.  Ellas hablaron de los deportes que juegan, las tradiciones de las quiniceañeras y su cultura, y sus experencias en su escuela. Host, Lizbeth Martinez and Diana Reyes, interview their guest Alison Ortis-Cortez.  They talked about sports, quinceañera’s tradition and culture, and their experiences with school.

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Daily Local News – January 22, 2019

A group of Zionsville High School boys are in trouble after posting a group photo, with their arms outstretched, in a Nazi salute; City of Bloomington Clerk Nicole Bolden will seek a second term in office; The city of Bloomington’s efforts to repair the Fourth Street Parking Garage, in downtown, may cost more than originally estimated. FEATURE Monroe County Commissioner Amanda Barge …

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