Hosts Clarence Boone and William Hosea spend the hour speaking with Amrita Myers and Jacinda Townsend, who are both Bring It On! contributors, post-secondary educators, and authors, along with local Black Lives Matters activist Jada Barbry. Today’s show focuses on issues of racial justice and increased calls for societal transformation in the aftermath of George Floyds’s murder. This time of …
Read More »Our special 2018 Memorial Day “Best of” episode PART ONE Doris Sims and Amrita Myers welcome Raffi Hasan, director of the City of Bloomington Safe and Civil City Program and Indiana State Police Captain, Ruben Marté. They provided a prelude to a November 2015 community conversation on the city of Bloomington’s relationship with law enforcement. PART TWO Cornelius Wright and …
Read More »Hosts William Hosea and Cornelius Wright bring another double header tonight. First up a historical perspective of Confederate Monuments, and how they represented the legitimization of the Jim Crow racist regime. And a look at the Black Philanthropy Month with Joyce Rogers, a vice-president in Indiana University’s Diversity, Equity and Multicultural Affairs (DEMA). PART ONE A historical perspective of …
Read More »Bring It On’s William Hosea and Dr. Amrita Myers speak with Dr. Kali Gross, Professor of African American Studies at Wesleyan University about Violent Intersections: Women of Color in the Age of Trump, a large community/campus event on violence against women of color [scheduled for tomorrow, March 21, from 6-8pm in the IMU Whittenberger Auditorium on IU Bloomington’s campus]. In …
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On Thursday, Oct. 27, WFHB’s Interchange will host a panel discussion moderated by Dr. Amrita Myers that focuses on topics prompted by the highly publicized police shootings of unarmed Black Americans in recent years and the subsequent rise of the Black Lives Matter movement. Hosted by Doug Storm, topics to be discussed include race, racism, privilege, and policing, with special emphasis …
Read More »On Monday, the hosts of WFHB’s African American Public Affairs show, Bring It On, sat down with two members of the Indiana State Police Department to discuss recent police shootings and citizen responses. Hosts William Hosea and Amrita Myers spoke with Sergeant Todd Durnil and Captain Ruben Marte. We bring you a portion of their conversation now for today’s WFHB …
Read More »The Indiana University Police Department has decided to implement police body cameras on campuses in Bloomington and Indianapolis, with the stated goal of improving officer accountability and police-community relations; The Bloomington City Council conducted four nights of departmental budget hearings last week; There may soon be another place that Twitter cannot go. The Times of Northwest Indiana reports that Indiana …
Read More »Liz Mitchell and Cornelius Wright host a discussion on the recent Bloomington rally for Black Lives Matter with Lia Robinson, and Amrita Myers. Residents packed the Monroe County Courthouse square to listen and understand better the racial issues and injustices struggle with every day. Lia Robinson is the Black Lives Matter march organizer, and Amrita Myers is a history professor. …
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