We are sad to report that Russell Maroon Shoatz, who was recently granted compassionate release after his decades in prison, has passed away. This week, we return to the final part of our conversation about carceral non-profits with Zhandarka Kurti and Jarrod Shanahan. Kurti is a professor of criminology and Criminal Justice at Loyola University Chicago, and Jarrod Shanahan is …

Welcome to the 53rd episode of Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio. Hearabouts is produced by Indiana University’s Asian Culture Center in collaboration with WFHB. We ask critical questions about identity, culture, community and shared assumptions. This episode is produced by Andrew Pace and Melanie Castillo-Cullather. Our sound engineer is Michael Sears. Partnering with The Creative Writing MFA Program, the new series entitled …

When will you come, O Hidden One Portuguese dream of every age, To make me more than the faint breath Of an ardent God-created yearning? Ah, when at last will you, Returning, turn my hope into love? In the aftermath of the death of his father (by tuberculosis) and in the face of losing his mother to another country and …

Brandon Pfeiffer is a Chicago-based singer-songwriter with deep Bloomington roots and a penchant for creating witty, insightful lyrics with a melody to match. In addition to being an outstanding performer, Brandon co-hosted the Bloomington Songwriters Showcase for much of its 11-year run. Tune in on Saturday, December 11, at 11:00 am, when WFHB welcomes Brandon Pfeiffer for an entertaining hour …

Don Jordan, ‘Buddy Bill’ Moser, Rich Reardin, and D Alan Bronnenberg ‘Inside Outdoors’ engineer, host and Inside Outdoors executive producer is Rich Reardin WFHB executive producer is Kade Young

This week, we cover carceral non-profits in an interview with Drs. Zhandarka Kurti, a professor of criminology and Criminal Justice at Loyola University Chicago, and Jarrod Shanahan, professor of criminal justice at Governors State University in Chicago. Bella Bravo interviews Zhana and Jarrod, who are abolitionist scholars researching incarceration, and in recent years, their work has turned to the reconfiguration …

Her parents were accomplished, noted artists so she and her sisters were raised in art museums, galleries, and studios. Jaime Sweany has run several commercial galleries in Brown County, Bloomington, and now Owen County. The proprietor of Juniper Art Gallery on the courthouse square in Spencer, Indiana, Sweany has weathered both an historic economic recession and the pandemic shutdown and …

This is the first of two shows on Fernando Pessoa, perhaps the greatest modern Portuguese poet, who proclaimed himself greater than Luís Vaz de Camões, author of The Lusiads, an epic fantasy of the adventuring, marauding, slaving, nation published in 1572. And in a like manner, Pessoa strives to better, or at least equal, another so-called national epic, in this …

Welcome to the 52nd episode of Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio. Hearabouts is produced by Indiana University’s Asian Culture Center in collaboration with WFHB. We ask critical questions about identity, culture, community and shared assumptions. This episode is produced by Andrew Pace and Melanie Castillo-Cullather. Our sound engineer is Michael Sears. In this episode we continue our conversation with Dr. …

We begin our episode with our monthly round up of prison disturbances contributed by Perilous Chronicle. We close out the episode with a call from Adrien Espinoza, who is currently housed in Maricopa County in Arizona. Espinoza, who got his paralegal degree inside, has contributed to the Prisoner Correspondence Project, the Silvia Rivera law project, and intends to work in …