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WFHB Local News – November 16th, 2020

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, November 16th, 2020. Later in the program, WFHB Correspondent Aaron Comforty reports on the Sean Reed shooting – where Indianapolis police officers did not face charges for killing 21-year-old Reed after a grand jury decision last week. More coming up in today’s feature report. Also in the next half hour, we have …

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Interchange – Sounding Angola: Radio’s Electrifying Effects

Today’s show focuses on the history of radio in Angola – as an instrument for Portuguese settlers, the colonial state, African nationalists, and the postcolonial state to project power and challenge empire. Marissa Moorman calls these distinct and sometimes overlapping interests Powerful Frequencies, the title of her new book, published by Ohio University Press. Its subtitle is Radio, State Power, …

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Indiana Representative’s Brother Killed in Cameroon

Elkhart Representative Tim Wesco’s brother was shot to death in Cameroon, on Tuesday. Vice President Mike Pence and Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb issued statements expressing their condolences. Charles Truman Wesco was killed while on a missionary trip in northwestern Cameroon. The Cameroon Defense Minister said it was likely Wesco was killed in a crossfire between government forces and separatists. He …

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