Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:18 — 81.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe title of our opening song, performed by Deacon Tom Jones, from the compilation album Mississippi Saints and Sinners, “If I Had My Way I’d Tear this Building Down,” serves as an epigraph to Baldwin’s 1972 masterpiece, the essay collection No Name in the Street, which features …
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Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his plans today to retire from the bench. In a brief, three sentence letter to President Trump, 81-year-old Kennedy said that he plans on formally ceding his spot as a supreme court justice at the end of next month. In the letter, Kennedy wrote, “Please permit me by this letter to express my profound …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 26:19 — 19.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreKilroys on Kirkwood, in downtown Bloomington, had their alcohol permit approved by a county board this morning; The founder of the Group UndocuHoosiers Bloomington, William Palomo, is no longer affiliated with the immigrant advocacy organization; A Bloomington Fire Department Captain accused of sexual misconduct did not report to work …
Read More »Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 22:17 — 8.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIndiana Senators Joe Donnelly and Todd Young are collaborating on legislation to designate Indianapolis’ Kennedy-King Park as a National Historic Site; Bloomington was named one of the Top 100 Best Places to Live by Livability. com’s list for 2018; and Brown County Water Utilities and the Nashville …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:11 — 875.5KB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreCuba in Africa We’re joined by Piero Gleijeses whose book, Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976, “bluntly contradicts the Congressional testimony of the era and the memoirs of Henry A. Kissinger.” The work sheds new light on U.S. foreign policy and CIA covert operations and revolutionizes …
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