WFHB Local News – May 2nd, 2024

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.9MB)

Subscribe: RSS

This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, May 2nd, 2024.

Earlier today, protesters gathered outside Bryan Hall to deliver a letter of resignation for Indiana University President Pamela Whitten. More in the bottom half of our program.

Also coming up in the next half hour, WFHB correspondent Brookelyn Lambright brings to us another segment of History Unbound.

But first, your local headlines.

Students, Faculty and Staff Write Resignation Letter for IU President Pamela Whitten

Earlier today, protesters gathered outside Bryan Hall to deliver a letter of resignation for Indiana University President Pamela Whitten.

The letter was written by a handful of students, faculty and staff and was addressed to the IU Board of Trustees.

Dr. Micol Seigel commented on the letter outside Bryan Hall earlier this afternoon.

This comes in the aftermath of an overnight policy change by the university banning encampments in Dunn Meadow, reversing a decades old policy.

Furthermore, it coincides with the Indiana Graduate Workers’ strike and vote of ‘no confidence’ of the IU president.

Then, a protester read the letter. It says, as follows:

Demonstrators then began chanting, “sign the letter.” They were denied entry into Bryan Hall. A faculty member then addressed the crowd into a megaphone.

Protesters marched to the Bryan House, the traditional home of the president of the university. There, they read the letter again with a series of chants. The IU Police Department showed up, commenting that they were there simply to “keep the peace.”

Feature Report:

In today’s feature report, WFHB Correspondent Brookelyn Lambright brings to us another segment of History Unbound. In today’s report, Lambright traces the origins of whiteness in America, beginning with Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676. She, along with scholar Micol Siegel, argue that whiteness, the ideology, has a starting place in time. Lambright tracks whiteness through time taking us to the present with the election of Donald Trump and the building of prisons in Appalachia. Lambright argues that whiteness not only hurts people of color, but it also hurts the people we might think benefit from the privileges associated with whiteness: lower-class white folks.

Credits:
You’ve been listening to the WFHB Local News,
Today’s headlines were written by Kade Young.
Our feature was produced by Brookelyn Lambright.
Our theme music is provided by Mark Bingham and the Social Climbers.
Engineer and Executive producer is Kade Young.