On May 20th, Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez became the fifth child to die in border patrol custody since December. He was 16, and had been held for a week in a border patrol outpost that lacked proper provisioning. He had fled Guatemala, currently wracked with drought and violence, and reached the U.S. on May 13- at which point he turned …

Bring It On! contributors and Associate Professors Amrita Myers and Jacinda Townsend speak about the history of police forces in the United States, in the light of the latest release of footage from Sandra Bland’s arrest. Bland was a 28 year-old African-American woman who was found hanged in a jail cell in Waller Co, TX, on July 13, 2015, three …

This week, we air part of a conversation with Brandon Ackerson, a 36-year-old survivor of an 18 year prison sentence in the Indiana prison system. Newly released, he talks about using the skills he learned and honed during life in the DOC, in which he became a successful writer while in the Indiana Prison Writers’ Workshop.

Today’s show, “Radicals and Reactionaries,” is a 90-minute special with journalist and novelist Tony McKenna. Tony McKenna’s new book is Angels and Demons: A Radical Anthology of Political Lives, published by Zero Books. In it he offers a series of essays about historical figures using a Marxist analysis, showing with each of the figures examined how the art, politics and …

Part One: Aired originally on August 11, 2014, hosts William and Bev Smith welcome award-winning journalist and filmmaker Raheim Shabazz. His new film,“Elementary Genocide”, exposes the socially engineered mechanism created by our government and utilizing the public school system to label elementary aged African American males as work for hire targets within the US penal system. Elementary Genocide confirms this …

Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill is in Bloomington, this afternoon. Hill was invited to speak at the Monroe County Public Library by local Republican group, the Grassroots Conservatives. Hill is expected to speak at the library at 7 p.m. Grassroots Conservatives organizer, Robert Hall said the organization invited the state AG to share his accomplishments. Gov. Eric Holcomb, and fellow …

Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill is the Grassroots Conservatives’ guest speaker, at their Monroe County Public Library meeting, this evening; President Donald Trump nominated former Indiana Republican Congressman Todd Rokita to the Amtrak board of Directors, last week; America’s newest national park, Indiana Dunes National Park,  is now accepting reservations; Tomorrow begins the first of the three day Bloomington Black …

Buddy Bill, Rich Reardin, and Don Jordan are the hosts. Still experiencing some cooler temperatures, Buddy Bill say’s we’ll be seeing some frost due to an old wive’s tale from February, the boys talk about planting tomatoes, weather issues, rain/wet issues, more about the logging at Lake Monroe, fishing this week, and more on taking care of your equipment for …

Kathy Pratt has been a volunteer with Meals on Wheels for over 20 years. She originally got involved after being asked by a friend to join her as a partner on her delivery route. She has stuck with it all of those years and enjoyed not just spending time with her friend, but has gained an appreciation for the need …

Locutora, Minerva Sosa, entrevista a los artistas del festival de artes Bloomington Black y Brown 2019!  Nuestra invitada especial Sofia Crespo nos habla sobre sus experencias con el baile flamenco.  Ella participa el viernes, 17 de mayo en la galeria de artes  Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center despues de las 7:30pm.  Tambien participa en el Banneker Center el sabado, …