Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:59 — 6.9MB)Subscribe: RSSDr. Gloria Howell talks about our local Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration Commission. It’s not just one day in January – these volunteers work year-round to build a beloved Bloomington. Activate! is a partnership between WFHB and the City of Bloomington Volunteer Network, working together to build …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:14 — 81.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOur guest today is Yannick Marshall and as I find all his recent essays crystallizations of important truths about the US of A, I’ll let his words serve as an introduction to our conversation. This is from “The Racist’s Peace“: In the times when videos of Black …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:31 — 80.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police on May 25th has quickly become the catalyst which has given rise to mass uprisings in every major city in the United States. In the days following Floyd’s murder, thousands upon thousands of people across the country have taken …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 5:02 — 3.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreDianne Shewmaker has memories of being a young college student in Memphis and the effect the message of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had on her. She had been raised in the south and lived during a time when the message of Dr. King was not as …
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 …
Read More »Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 53:36 — 49.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOn Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the city of Bloomington invited the Rev. Harold Middlebrook, a peer and close friend of Dr. King’s to, make the keynote address in the Buskirk-Chumley theater. Here, in full, is Rev. Middlebrook’s address on where we’ve come, and how far …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:28:51 — 61.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOur show today, “Entertainment Inaction,” is in two parts and is a special for our Spring Fund Drive. Cast a glance up and to the right of the page (right next to Phil’s head)…see that big red “Donate” button? You know what to to. PART ONE: Listen, …
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