In this week’s edition of The Bicentennial Journal, Gladys DeVane shares her experiences with racism as a person of color. As a Black woman, she was excluded from the private parties and social gatherings of coworkers. So, DeVane says the African-American community would hang out together to get away from ‘being Black in Bloomington.’ Support for The Bicentennial Journal and …

State Rep. Matt Pierce (D-Bloomington) toured logging areas of Yellowwood State Forest last week. Pierce says he hiked through the Back Country area, where a Department of Natural Resources contractor is removing 1,700 trees, with the Indiana Forest Alliance’s Dave Seastrom. Pierce says the Indiana DNR designated Yellowwood’s Back Country area back in the ‘80’s, in an effort to preserve …

An armed gunman was reported on IU’s campus yesterday afternoon; State Rep. Matt Pierce (D-Bloomington) toured logging areas of Yellowwood State Forest last week, to evaluate the logging of the back country wilderness; A surveying and land-use contractor hired by the city of Bloomington to evaluate what to do with the IU Health downtown hospital has released its recommendations; Wain Martin, a …

Leila Randle and Roberta Radovich welcome Audrey T. McCluskey and Dr. Gladys Devane PART ONE Leila and Roberta are joined by Audrey T. McCluskey and Dr. Gladys Devane. They joins us to discuss the topic of memorialization & reclaiming public space and the role museums such as the Smithsonian, The National Museum of African-American History & Culture and The National …

Buddy Bill, Rich Reardin, and Don Jordan are the hosts. Buddy Bill, Rich Reardin, and Don Jordan are the hosts. Lake Level and temperatures, anti-fungus powder for tomatoes, talk about garden seeds and varieties, what it was like growing vegetables in the ‘old days’, caller “Ben” calls in to talk about finding Morrell mushrooms, talk about mushroom hunting as now …

Locutores Luis Hernandez, Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, Carlos Bakota y Carlos Colon hablaron acerca las noticias, leyes y politica. Host Luis Hernadez, Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, Carlos Bakota and Carlos Colon talk about the news, law and politics.

The Bloomington Police Department captured a suspect in connection with an attempted murder investigation. Brandon Richardson is wanted for allegedly tying up his girlfriend, beating, stabbing and strangling her over a period of three days. The woman reportedly told investigators at Monroe Hospital the assault began after the couple fought on Monday. Members of Bloomington Police Department’s Critical Incident Response …

Buddy Bill, Rich Reardin, and Don Jordan are the hosts. Buddy Bill, Rich Reardin, and Don Jordan are the hosts. Buddy Bill, Rich Reardin, and Don Jordan are the hosts. Talk about mushroom hunting, Bloomington’s new armored vehicle, fishing, lake levels and temperature, news of a kayaker killed in Columbus due to high water and fast currents, turkey hunting, a …

Arts Educational practitioner and social theorist Maxine Greene explains that “social imagination is the capacity to invent visions of what should be and what might be in our deficit society, in the streets where we live and our schools. Social imagination not only suggests but also requires that one take action to repair or renew.” In this segment of bloomingOUT, …

Last night the Bloomington City Council held a special session to commemorate the city’s bicentennial. During the special session’s public comment period, Black Lives Matter advocate Vauhxx Booker announced his group will continue to protest the Mayor’s decision to approve purchasing an armored truck for the police department. Indiana’s Attorney General, Curtis Hill, published an opinion piece this morning, in …