The IU School of Medicine is being implicated in the death of at least 116 animals and the injury of dozens more. The animal-rights group Stop Animal Exploitation Now, or SAEN, obtained 17 non-compliance reports sent from School of Medicine officials to the National Institute of Health’s Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare. According to the reports, the animals died due to …

Ross Gay, the award-winning, bestselling poet, is the teacher. Kacie Swierk, who relied on music to help get her through debilitating illness, is the student. Gay teaches creative writing in the Indiana University English Department. Swierk signed up for his course and found his unconventional teaching methods an unexpected help in making music. She hadn’t thought much about words through …

William Hosea and Cornelius Wright welcome Donald Griffin, Amber Skoby, Deborah Myerson & Tim Ballard PART ONE On tonight’s show, William and Cornelius are joined by Donald Griffin, owner and CEO of Griffin Realty and president of the Bloomington Redevelopment Commission; Amber Skoby, executive director of the Bloomington Housing Authority; Deborah Myerson, executive director of South Central Indiana Housing Opportunities …

An Ohio-based animal rights group is accusing the Indiana University School of Medicine of neglecting it’s lab animals. About 20 people gathered across the street from the Monroe County Correctional Center on Sunday to show support for incarcerated mothers. The City of Bloomington is holding the Black y Brown Arts Festival this Saturday from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. at …

The support of Bloomington’s growing Latino population has soared with the hard work of Lillian Casillas. Her work for the past sixteen years with El Centro Comunal Latino and the AMIGOS Club has been transformative for Latino families integrating into the Bloomington community. Lillian’s personal experiences allow her to bring both a warm lightheartedness and a grounding understanding to her …

Buddy Bill, Rich Reardin, and Don Jordan are the hosts. Buddy Bill, Rich Reardin, and Don Jordan are the hosts. Lake Monroe levels and temperature, mushroom report, trout stocking in Indiana, weather trends, pear trees locally (callery pear) and how invasive they are and should be avoided planting, 3 legged deer is shot, NRA president now is Oliver North, knives …

Hoy en el programa tuvimos como invitada a Juanita que nos hablo acerca del Centro Comunal Latino, el campamento de verano Operation fit kids y las actividades que se desarrollan en este lugar. Today in the program we had guest Juanita to talk about el Centro Comunal Latino, about Operation fit Kids Camp and the activities the offer in this …

This week, we share a moving keynote speech recently given at the University of Michigan by Michelle Jones. Jones has been featured on multiple episodes of Kite Line, who shared some of her experiences at the Indiana Women’s Prison, particularly issues of mental and physical health on the inside. Now, she speaks of the extensive social, financial, and other repercussions- …

Last week, we began hearing the voices of prisoners on the topic of Angela Davis’s book, Are Prisons Obsolete? Up first, we have Anastazia Schmid’s response to the book, followed by Angaza Iman Bahar reading his response to us from Miami Correctional Facility.

This week, we start in on the topic of Are Prisons Obsolete Over the next couple of Kite Line episodes, we will be sharing the words and writings of prisoners- many of whom have been featured on previous episodes- and their responses to Angela Davis’s book, “Are Prisons Obsolete” For context, the Abolition Study Sessions are a new political education …