Good evening. This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, January 21st, 2021. Later in the program, we have an excerpt from the latest edition of Bring It On. Hosts Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell speak with Dr. Khalid el-Hakim, who was the MLK Day keynote speaker for the City of Bloomington. He is the founder and curator of the …
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Last week was a tense time for many, as Joe Biden has claimed victory in the presidential election, and for the first time in one hundred and fifty years, the sitting president has refused to concede. This has raised the prospect, however distant and indistinct, of civil war and called survival into question. It’s in this context that Interchange producer …
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Hosts William Hosea and Cornelius Wright welcome back Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, the co-executive director of the Highlander Research & Education Center, a social justice leadership training school and cultural center founded in 1932. She uses her expertise to discuss the structures of U.S. democracy and the state of its operations, focusing on the rights of citizens to vote as the …
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On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and William Hosea, assess the recent political actions and scandals of Donald J. Trump in light of the upcoming 2020 Presidential Election. To help them sort through the myriad issues involved are Professor Joseph L. Hoffman and USMC Major General Craig Q. Timberlake (Ret.). Today’s show provides an assessment of …
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On Wednesday, September 30, and Thursday, October 1, IU’s Department of History will be presenting three events designed to bring together IU and the greater Bloomington community in a conversation focused on race, white supremacy, and voter suppression. This year’s speaker for the virtual town hall meeting on Thursday, October 1, from 6 to 8 PM, is Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, …
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Hosts Clarence Boone and William Hosea spend the hour with Robin Winston, who is the former Chair of the Indiana Democratic Party. Mr. Winston is also a principal offer with the Winston Terrell Group. He is a skilled community development professional and business leader. They spend assessing the success of last week’s 2020 Democratic National Convention. Because of COVID-19, the …
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Located on 7th and Elm Street in Bloomington Indiana sits the Banneker Community Center. However, this building was not always a community center. Above the entrance to the buildings is a carving in the limestone which reads “1915 Banneker School”. In 1915 this school opened as a segregated school known as the Banneker School for Colored Children. According to the …
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This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, August 19th, 2020. Later in the program, Diane Walker, contributor for the Limestone Post, continues her conversation with Jacob Sipe – executive director of the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority about rental assistance in the wake of the expired eviction moratorium in Indiana. Also coming up, the Bloomington Arts Commission approved …
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This week, Bella Bravo speaks to Zhandarka Kurti and Jarrod Shanahan. Kurti is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Tennesee in Knoxville, and also works with Face to Face Knox, a campaign to restore in-person visitation to Knox County detention centers. Shanahan is an assistant professor of criminal justice at Governors State University. They have collaborated on …
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The title of our opening song, performed by Deacon Tom Jones, from the compilation album Mississippi Saints and Sinners, “If I Had My Way I’d Tear this Building Down,” serves as an epigraph to Baldwin’s 1972 masterpiece, the essay collection No Name in the Street, which features heavily in our program today. Born on August 2nd, 1924 in Harlem James …
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