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Interchange – Exporting Jim Crow: Big Tobacco and Sharecropping in China

Today’s show is a repeat of “Roll Jim Crow” (April 30, 2019) about the very intentional practice of white supremacy by the corporate managers of the American Tobacco Company and how, via corporate imperialism, that same racial project found expression in countries all over the world, most notably China. Some of the topics covered are: James Duke and debunking the …

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Saturday’s Child July 10 Salem Willard

Tune in on Saturday, July 10, at 11:00 am, when WFHB’s Saturday’s Child welcomes Salem Willard of Will Holler, for a special solo performance. Willard is the primary vocalist, songwriter, and founding member of the band Will Holler, a group with a country/folk/rock fusion sound that blends a walk in the woods with the pumping rhythm of a steam engine …

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July 9, 2021: On Strike

This week, amid a spate of prisoners’ strikes, we share our monthly round up of prison disturbances for June 2021, compiled by Perilous Chronicle.  Prisoners are hunger striking across the continent, agitating for safer conditions, and pushing back against labor exploitation.  We share an excerpt of the story entitled Prisoners Strike Against Racism and Colonialism in Canada’s “New Residential Schools” …

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Prescription for Healthcare – Dr. Mark Bauman (Part Two)

Welcome to the July edition of Prescription for Healthcare – a once-a-month podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana. In today’s segment, hosts Karen Green Stone and Dr. Rob Stone continue their conversation with Dr. Mark Bauman – a former physician at Indiana University Health Bloomington Hospital and professor at IU School of Medicine who …

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July 1, 2021: Stick-up on Rikers Island

This week, we continue talking to David Campbell, former anti-fascist political prisoner who recently did a year on Rikers Island. In our last conversation with David, he discussed the circumstances of how he ended up in the Rikers facility- the short of it being that he was sentenced to his time after a fight with some Trump supporters in NYC. …

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Interchange – Revolutionary Parallels: Zhang Taiyan and Anti-Imperialism

How can one expect the revolutionary struggles in Qing China at the turn of the 20th century to matter to humans in the United States? In the wake of celebrating the outcome of the American Revolution in 1776 we might turn our attention to revolutionary parallels. The great globe has been settled, divided, conquered, and ruled by humans for thousands …

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Bring It On! – July 5, 2021: Implicit Bias, Pt. 2

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Hosts, Clarence Boone and William Hosea, speak with Monica Fleetwood Black, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with IU Health Southern Indiana Physicians and a principal presenter with the BTCC Implicit Bias Training organization. Joining her is Attorney William Morris, the host of WFIU’s jazz program Just You and Me, for which he created the upbeat “Soul Kitchen”.  Today’s show is …

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WFHB Seeks Assistant News Director

WFHB is seeking an Assistant News Director to assist with our award-winning, independent news department. This 29-hour-a-week position covers local government meetings, news features and a variety of station-operation tasks. You will help produce a daily newscast and assist in managing our volunteer team of citizen journalists. Qualifications:  Two years of experience writing, reporting, and producing news programming, particularly for …

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Steve Higgs, Part 2

The conversation with the reporter, photographer, author, and journalism instructor at Indiana University continues. Part 1 aired Thursday, June 24, 2021. [Hosts Michael Glab and Alex Ashkin chat with Bloomington’s most fascinating people.]

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The Impact of the Flood on Kirkwood Avenue and Madison Street

WFHB News volunteers report on the impact of the flooding several weeks ago, focusing on Kirkwood Avenue and Madison Street.  Overnight on June 18th, downtown Bloomington saw extreme flooding, which led to the death of one resident and significant damage along Kirkwood Avenue and other parts of the city. The flooding forced the Bloomington Fire Department to relocate its headquarters …

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