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This week, we share the voices of three prisoners in Florida. Choosing to speak anonymously due to repression, they told us about horrible conditions inside the Florida prison system. They explain the racial injustice in the prison system, the importance of letting lifers out, the prevalence of moldy, rancid food, poor hygiene in the face of COVID-19, rats and cockroaches …

Hosts Roberta Radovich and Cornelius Wright spend the hour with Charlie Nelms, Vice President Emeritus of Indiana University, and George Middleton, founder of The Black Institute and member of the Indianapolis Black Chamber of Commerce. The hour is divided into two halves. First, the hosts and guests examine the State of Race Relations in the United States in light of …

Today on a special segment of Bring It On! hosts Clarence Boone and William Hosea welcome special guests Major General Craig Q. Timberlake (USMC, Retired) and  Joseph Hoffman, Harry Pratter Professor of Law at the Maurer School of Law at Indiana University Bloomington, to discuss primarily the unprecedented use of federal force taken by Donald Trump in recent weeks in …

John Lewis, a longtime Georgia Congressman and Black Civil Rights leader, died on Friday after a six-month-long battle with cancer.  Lewis, the son of sharecroppers, was born in rural Alabama during an era of Jim Crow laws. He grew up to become a Freedom Rider, a speaker at the 1963 March on Washington and a recipient of the Presidential Medal …

Today’s hosts Clarence Boone and William Hosea spend the hour with Retired Major General Craig Q. “Lake” Timberlake, USMC. Major General Timberlake lends his perspective on recent events that some have called one of the most remarkable periods in U.S. civil-military relations in decades. In the aftermath of unrest and protest about the killing of Goerge Floyd, Donald Trump has …

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, July 15, 2020. Later in the program, Sydney Foreman and Kade Young take a look at the ‘Black Lives Matter’ mural overlay and the history of People’s Park. But first, here are three things you need to know today. 700 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Indiana on Tuesday, according to …

The July 4th weekend of 2020 in Monroe County was fraught with seeming racial unrest. On Thursday, July 2, a Lawrence County sheriff’s deputy who resides in Monroe County questioned and detained a black Bloomington resident while he walked in his neighborhood in an apparent example of racial profiling. Then, most notably, on Saturday, July 4, a black man, Vauhxx …

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, July 6th, 2020. Later in the program, local resident and member of the Monroe County Human Rights Commission, Vauhxx Booker, a black man, was physically assaulted by a group of white men at Lake Monroe on Saturday. In today’s program, you will hear from Booker’s attorney, Katharine Liell. Also coming up in …

Have you been wondering about when we will ever get to go back to the Backdoor? On this episode, we talked to Smoove G, one of the owners of the Back Door in Bloomington, about current events regarding Pride and Black Lives Matter, and how the Blockhouse is handling being closed all this time during the pandemic. Ireland gives us …

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 …