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Hosts Clarence Boone and Roberta Radovich pay homage to the legacy of Toni Morrison with guests Drs. John and Audrey McCluskey, who are respected academicians, writers, researchers and former acquaintances with Ms. Morrison. Toni Morrison, was an American novelist, essayist, editor, teacher, and professor emeritus at Princeton University. She was noted for her examination of the black experience, especially from …

Today’s show is a rebroadcast from September 2, 2013, the link to the original broadcast can be found here.  

Host Clarence Boone spends the hour speaking with Bill and Glenda Breeden, along with Danielle Bruce about Sentences: From the Pen to the Page, a theater production about the effects of incarceration, life, and death sentences. This vignette style play has a cast of 8 performers who will be accompanied by live music. Sentences is directed by Danielle Bruce and …

Part One: Hosts William Hosea and James Sanders welcome Dr. Terri Frances, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies and Director of The Black Film Center/Archive at The Media School at Indiana University. She is also a Bring It On! regular guest. Today’s discussion focuses on When They See Us, a 2019 American drama web television miniseries created, co-written, and …

Today’s edition of Bring It On! focuses on Black Philanthropy Month (BPM). BPM is held every August and was created in August 2011 by Dr. Jackie Bouvier Copeland and the Pan-African Women’s Philanthropy Network (PAWPNet) as an annual, global celebration of African-descent giving. Hosts Clarence Boone and Roberta Radovich discuss Black Philanthropy Month with Ms. Valaidia Fulwood, Professor Tyrone McKinley …

The Bring It On! crew has prepared a special broadcast of relevant and memorable interviews from their archives. Part One: Originally airing on August 11, 2014, hosts William Hosea 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. He proposes that the public school system …

The focus of today’s show is how African-American ex-slaves were pioneers and part of the U.S.’s explansion into the Western Frontier, with a focus on free-black settlers in Indiana and other parts of the Mid-West. Hosts Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell speak with La Vella Hyter, President of the Board of Directors for the Indiana Roberts Settlement*, and Stanley Madison, …

Hosts Clarence Boone and Roberta Radovich spend the hour speaking with Dr. Terri Francis, director of the IU Black Film Center/Archive and Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies. She is joined by IU Professor of French and Italian Dr. Vincent Bouchard. They are here today to to discuss Bouchard’s symposium on Paulin Soumanou Vieyra (1925-1987), a Senegalese filmmaker and …

PART ONE: Hosts Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell speak with William Morris, the host of WFIU’s jazz program “Just You and Me” and the upbeat “Soul Kitchen”, featuring funky jazz, R&B, gospel, and rock. He began at WFIU after five years of volunteering here at community radio station WFHB, where he hosted such programs as the Tuesday Afternoon Music Mix, …

PART ONE: Hosts Clarence Boone and Jacinda Townsend speak with Tanya Bell, the General Counsel and President of the Indiana Black Expo (IBE), who provides an enticing overview of what people can experience when they attend this year’s Indiana Black Expo Summer Celebration. For nearly 50 years the IBE has been a pillar of the Indiana black community, by empowering …