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This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, June 21st, 2022. Later in the program, WFHB Correspondent Onyi Afoaku speaks with Director of Development for the IU Women’s Excellence Initiative Anne Crawford in Part II of a two-part series. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, the Indiana Environmental Resilience Institute says that over …

Interview with Maru Moro Villalpando of La Resistencia, a project that organizes against the Northwest Detention Center. In this conversation, Maru passes a kite along on behalf of immigrants housed in the facility. As they point out, facilities like this are “black boxes” where extra effort must be taken to shed light on conditions inside. Maru discusses some of the …

This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, June 16th, 2022. Later in the program, WFHB Assistant News Director Noelle Herhusky-Schneider speaks with Forest Activist and Paoli resident, Andy Mahler, about the Buffalo Springs Restoration Project. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, 53 percent of high school graduates attended college in 2020 – …

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, June 15th, 2022. Later in the program, WFHB Correspondent Onyi Afoaku speaks with Professor Lauren Smith, a sports media scholar at the IU Media School about Title IX and opportunities for women’s college athletics. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, we have Better Beware – …

This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, June 14th, 2022. Later in the program, WFHB News speaks with Allison Kuehr, Communications and Public Relations Manager for the Indiana Commission for Higher Education, about record lows in terms of high school seniors pursuing higher education. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, the Monroe …

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, June 13th, 2022. Later in the program, we have an excerpt from Partisan Gardens – our latest public affairs program devoted to food justice. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, the Bloomington City Council heard from the Historic Preservation Commission about the historical designation of …

This week we return to our conversation between Baye Sylvester and Focus Initiatives’ Jok Huerta. Both formerly incarcerated in Indiana, they described the circumstances that brought them to prison in a previous episode. In this segment, they talk about the way the prison system strips people of their humanity- and the struggle to retain one’s sense of self. You can …

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, June 6th, 2022. Later in the program, the Indiana General Assembly overrode Governor Eric Holcomb’s veto effectively banning transgender girls from playing on girls’ sports teams. In today’s show, we feature audio testimony from concerned Indiana residents. More in the bottom half of tonight’s program. Also coming up in the next half …

For this week’s episode,Bella Bravo spoke with Johana Bhuiyan, a journalist and author of a powerful series of articles about immigrant surveillance. She covers the vast program called “intensive supervision appearance program” which purports to be “humane alternative” to immigration detention. Managing the program on behalf of ICE is BI Inc, a subsidiary of the Geo Group, one of the …

This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, June 2nd, 2022. Later in the program, we have an excerpt from the May 27th edition of Kite Line – WFHB’s public affairs program devoted to prison issues in the Midwest and beyond. More in the bottom half of our program. Also coming up in the next half hour, we have Voices …