Tag Archives: Alex Lichtenstein

WFHB Local News – June 5th, 2025

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 32:08 — 44.2MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, June 5th, 2025. In today’s newscast – June is Black Music Month, a time to honor the legacy and global impact of Black musicians across all genres. This month, Bloomington also celebrates the annual Granfalloon festival, presented by the IU Arts …

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Interchange – Margaret Bourke-White’s Focus on Apartheid: The Remix Edition

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday’s show offers a remix of a July 2016 interview with Alex Lichtenstein on the documentary photographs of Margaret Bourke-White, “Focus on Apartheid.” The conversation was recorded live in our WFHB studios. All of our music for this remix comes from five albums by Johnny Dyani, South …

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Interchange – Moments of Betterment: The Example of Eugene V. Debs

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:55 — 43.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOn March 30 this year, WFHB partnered with several local businesses, the Ryder Magazine and Film series, the Burroughs Century, the Debs Foundation, and Indiana University, to bring Paul Buhle to Bloomington to talk about his new graphic biography of Eugene V. Debs (drawn by Noah Van …

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Interchange – The Past Is Uncertain: The Russian Revolution (Part One)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 55:51 — 37.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIt’s October 24th 2017, nearly 100 years ago to the day in 1917*, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov became Chairman of the Council of People’s Commisars in Russia. Ulanov is better known to us as Lenin. Michel Foucault said in 1977 that “It is the desirability of the revolution …

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Howard Zinn-In

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:51 — 8.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreDuring his US History class today, Indiana University associate Professor Alex Lichtenstein held what he deemed a “Howard Zinn-in.” The date coincides with the birthday of famous Hoosier Eugene V. Debbs, a prominent Socialist and proponent of union rights during the turn of the twentieth century who …

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