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This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, January 17th, 2024.
Later in the program, you will hear remarks from keynote speaker Jesse Hagopian, an award-winning educator and activist, who spoke at the city’s MLK Day celebration at the Buskirk Chumley Theater on Monday. More in today’s feature report.
Also coming up in the next half hour, we have Better Beware – your weekly consumer watchdog segment with host and producer Richard Fish. More following today’s feature.
But first, your local headlines:
Monroe County Council
The Monroe County Council elected new positions for the start of the year at their meeting on January 9th. First, Council President Kate Wiltz nominated Council Member Trent Deckard as the new Council President.
Deckard accepted the nomination.
He said that he will imitate his leadership after the example Wiltz modeled this past year.
The nomination passed unanimously.
Next, Council Member Cheryl Munson nominated Council Member Jennifer Crossley as the President Pro Tempore. Crossley was attending virtually and there were some technical issues with her audio, but she did accept the nomination. The council voted to nominate her unanimously for the position of President Pro Temp.
Next, the council members were appointed to their new positions as board liaisons.
The next Monroe County Council meeting will be held on January 23rd.
MCCSC School Board
The Monroe County Community School Corporation Board met on January 9th for their re-organizational meeting. The board appointed the ex-officio members.
President April Hennessey thanked the members for the willingness to serve as ex-officio committee appointments.
The appointments were approved unanimously.
Next, the board voted on the non-board related appointments.
The appointments passed unanimously.
The next Monroe County Community School Corporation Board meeting will be held on January 23rd, 2024.
City of Bloomington Hosts MLK Day Event at Buskirk Chumley Theater
On Monday, the City of Bloomington hosted its annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration at the Buskirk Chumley Theater.
This year’s theme was “Unlocking Freedom: the Transformative Power of Education.” The keynote speaker was Jesse Hagopian, an award-winning educator who shared insights on educational equity and social justice.
Hagopian discussed his experience visiting the site of a plantation in Mississippi where his ancestors were enslaved. Hagopian read a letter that he wrote to his ancestors when visiting the Lenoir Plantation.
During the keynote address, Hagopian criticized attacks on education when it comes to the history of slavery and racism in classrooms today.
Hosts Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell from WFHB’s Black affairs program, Bring It On, interviewed Hagopian in December. During that interview, Hagopian tackled a question dealing with attacks on anti-racist education in schools.
To listen to the full interview with Jesse Hagopian, high school educator and social justice activist, visit wfhb dot org following this broadcast.
Better Beware
Up next, we have Better Beware – your weekly consumer-watchdog segment on the WFHB Local News. For more, we turn to host and producer Richard Fish.
Credits:
You’ve been listening to the WFHB Local News,
Today’s headlines were written by Noelle Herhusky-Schneider, in partnership with Cats – Community Access Television Services.
Our feature was produced by Kade Young.
Better Beware is produced by Richard Fish.
Our theme music is provided by Mark Bingham and the Social Climbers.
Engineer and Executive producer is Kade Young.
