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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 35.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOn toight’s edition of Bring It On!, host Clarence Boone spends the hour with Audrey Thomas McCluskey. She is an American writer and professor emeriti. She is an alumna of Indiana University where she was an African American and African Diaspora Studies professor and former director of …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 33.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis program originally aired on August 21, 2023: On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell, spend the hour with Dr. Marvin Dunn. Dr. Dunn is fighting against the potential miseducation of countless children and young adults in Florida. He is here …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 32.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOn tonight’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell, speak with Marvin Dunn, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Psychology at Florida International University, retiring as the department chairman in 2006. He has published numerous articles in leading newspapers on race and ethnic …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 31.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we are highlighting two experiences of outside solidarity with prisoners.  First, we share audio from last week’s rally in Indianapolis for clemency, including a recorded statement by Leon Benson, a longtime imprisoned organizer, as well as a speech by his son, Leon Bluitt, about the …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:29 — 73.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFor today’s episode, we spoke with Antonio Roman-Alcala and Spirit Mike.  In 2011, Antonio released the powerful documentary In Search of Good Food, which carefully traced the crises built into the food systems in California’s Central Valley, which is the source of most vegetable and many tree …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 40.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we share two stories from people reflecting on their time inside and on re-entry. Both have wise words about surviving incarceration, and the overall political context of prisons. First is David Campbell, a former political prisoner at Rikers Island in New York. We will hear …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 38.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOn today’s episode, we share two perspectives on the role of study, as practiced in the face of repression and directly against repression.  First, we complete our interview with Garrett Felber, with a focus on his termination by the University of Mississippi in retaliation for his outspoken …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 30.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we share two interviews with prisoners confronting rampant COVID-19 infections in their facilities. Cory Cardinal, imprisoned at the Saskatoon Provincial Correctional Centre in Saskatchewan, Canada speaks about the hunger strike they organized last weekend to protest the rapidly-spreading COVID-19 outbreak at the facility. Prisoners at …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 34.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFor our episode this week, we share more from Florida Prisoner Solidarity. Recently, they told us about the drastic retaliatory measures prisoners were being subjected to in the Florida Department of Corrections. These punishments were often given as a response for prisoners advocating for themselves in the …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 35.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, share an update sent to us from Michelle Freeman about her husband, Vernell. Michelle’s impassioned plea on behalf of her partner is both urgent and inspiring, and we will continue to air messages from her in the future, as Vernell’s situation evolves. You can hear …