Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 38.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreAfter this week’s news and updates, Kite Line sits down with Keith Malik Washington, who was released from prison last month. We’ve shared many of Washington’s essays and audio dispatches over the years, as he exposed the ongoing injustices and hazards he faced alongside others behind the …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 24.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis 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 …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 36.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe return this week to the second part of the conversation between Kristina Byers and Anastazia Schmid. Schmid is an award-winning, formerly incarcerated scholar who went to extraordinary lengths to complete her education on the inside. We last heard Schmid describe the impact of Ball State University, …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 25.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe will continue the final installment of the interview between Kristina Byers and Anastazia Schmid next week, as they talk about barriers to education while incarcerated. This week, though, we received urgent calls. Faheem Shabazz is a longtime whistleblower and militant inside the Indiana prison system, who …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:04 — 81.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday we’re joined by two of the four hosts of the Black Myths Podcast which is produced in Indianapolis: Too Black, a spoken word poet and teaching artist, and elle roberts, a writer and facilitator. As described on the show’s website, “The Black Myths Podcast is an …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this episode, we have two updates from prisoners in California on their conditions amidst the COVID-19 crisis. Afterwards, we speak with Max Felker-Kantor, historian and professor at Ball State University. Felker-Kantor’s particular focus of study is policing and anti-police violence post WWII. He’s been on Kite …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we share a phone conversation between Kijana Tashiri Askari and C, one of their outside supporters. Askari is incarcerated in the California Medical Facility- a male-only state carceral medical institution.The recorded this conversation earlier this week, about the conditions Kijana and others are facing, including …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 41.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe whole country is in upheaval as a vast Movement for Black Lives continues to challenge white supremacy and the institutions of policing and prison. As monuments fall and precincts are seized in Minneapolis to Seattle, the lies and hidden truths of American society are being revealed. …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:09 — 81.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday hosts Clarence Boone and William Hosea welcome Rv. Forrest Gilmore, Executive Director of Shalom Community Center, Ms. Amber Skoby, Executive Director of the Bloomington Housing Authority, and Nicole Johnson, a Crestmont resident and community advocate. They discuss how Bloomington is trying to meet the challenge of …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 40.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn the wake of uprisings across the world in response to the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, this week’s episode shares thoughts on these revolts and their demands, along with considerations on police reform. We broadcast a June 11th message from Marius …
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