Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 33.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis program originally aired on February 12, 2024: Laurisa LeSure, the Director of “Better Homes: The Play” On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell, spend the hour with Laurisa LeSure, the director of Better Homes: The Play. In the 1950s African …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 42.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreStarting with real estate reforms in the 1970s supposedly instituted to open a path to the American Dream for Black citizens, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s new book, Race for Profit, a study of Black home ownership, argues that the turn from exclusion to inclusion was just another, less explicit, …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:01 — 4.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreShalom Community Center in Bloomington received hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund a new Housing First development. Executive Director Forrest Gilmore said the Davis Homes are the latest Housing First development, aimed at reducing area homelessness. The Davis Homes Apartments Initiative received a $322,000 Federal grant from Housing …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:57 — 11.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe City of Bloomington plans to distribute $800,000 in Community Development Block Grant funds, this year. The Community Kitchen, Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard, and Hoosier Hills Food Bank are to receive $25,000 dollars each, for emergency needs; Monroe County United Ministries and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Bloomington are …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:55 — 66.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreSchools across Indiana and much of the Midwest are cancelling classes, as temperatures drop into dangerous territory; An Indiana lawmaker’s efforts to eliminate the state’s child labor laws have raised conflict of interest concerns; The Herald-Times of Bloomington is among 8 Indiana newspapers sold to Gatehouse Media; A hike in …
Read More »Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:28 — 27.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHEADLINES A small plane crash in south eastern Indiana claimed three lives over the weekend; Monroe County Commissioners are taking a first step in updating county code to reflect a 2007 ordinance regarding solid waste facilities; The City of Bloomington is gearing up to celebrate the 200th anniversary of …
Read More »Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 26:19 — 24.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreEarlier today a federal court granted Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky a preliminary injunction regarding Indiana’s new abortion law; Bloomington police are searching for witnesses and a suspect after an attempted abduction on the B-Line Trail; A program aimed at saving three endangered languages has taken …
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