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Our show is about the French Gilets jaunes Movement, or Yellow Vests Movement. For more than a year, protestors have donned yellow safety vests and taken to the streets to decry the police, centrist French President Emmanuel Macron, and his attempted austerity reforms. The reflective vests worn by protesters are required for all French motorists to store in their cars …

1. Miss Tess – The Moon Is An Ashtray  2. Drive-By Truckers – The Unraveling 3. Antibalas – FU Chronicles  4. Various – Don’t Pass Me By  5. Khruangbin & Leon Bridges – Texas Sun  6. The Lone Bellow – Half Moon Light  7. Amy O – Shell  8. Acid Arab – Jdid  9. Sonny Landreth – Blacktop Run  10. …

Hosts Clarence Boone and William Hosea welcome Bloomington Police Chief Mike Diekhoff and Beverly Calender-Anderson, Director of the Community and Family Resources Department. They are here to discuss their contributions to Bloomington’s 4th Annual Public Safety Report, which covers topics ranging from police personnel recruitment, training, crime statistics, and data about the substance abuse problem. The Public Safety Report also …

This week, we focus on the history of police in the United States, and the concept of community policing. Alex Vitale, author of the new book, “The End of Policing” shares his research about the origins of modern police, and the inadequate ways that police respond to community issues. Prison abolition often focuses primarily on the prisons themselves, rather than …

Whistler is an old-time string band from Bloomington that focuses on fiddle tunes and songs with three part vocal harmonies. Songs 1. Red Rocking Chair 2. Duck River / Wynder’s Slide 3. Lazy John 4. Say Darlin’ Say 5. Blackest Crow 6. No Time to Tarry Here / Big Scioty Credits Host: Harrison Wagner Engineers: Jim Lang and Kate Welch …

Welcome to our episode about love and diversity in relationships with Kimber Garland and Ilana Gershon on Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio! Hearabouts is produced by WFHB and Indiana University’s Asian Culture Center. We ask critical questions about identity, culture, community and shared assumptions. Ilana Gershon is an author and professor of anthropology at Indiana University. Kimber Garland interviews Ilana …

In the August 1897 Atlantic Monthly W. E. B. Du Bois published “Strivings of the Negro People” in which he introduced the term double-consciousness: …this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One feels his two-ness, — …

1. Drive-By Truckers – The Unraveling 2. John Moreland – LP5 3. Wolf Parade – Thin Mind 4. DJ Shadow – Our Pathetic Age 5. Amy O – Shell 6. Antibalas – FU Chronicles 7. The Wood Brothers – Kingdom In My Mind 8. Possessed by Paul James – Feed The Family 9. Son Little – Aloha 10. Letitia VanSant …

Host Clarence Boone presents an overview of  Bloomington’s 3rd Annual State of the Black Community Address, which took place on February 4th in the City Hall Council Chambers.  He welcomes three speakers who addressed different issues at the Annual State of the Bloomington Black Community. First, he speaks with Bring It On! assistant producer and Chair of the Board of …

In this week’s episode, we start off with a call for action from Jailhouse Lawyers Speak. JLS is calling for a new set of actions from August 21- September 9, 2020. After we hear from them, we share the story of Nick, a long-time Bloomingtonian who passed through both private prisons and those run by the Indiana Department of Corrections. …