Tag Archives: Race

February 17, 2023: Policing Sex

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis we continue our conversation between Micol Seigel and Anne Gray Fischer about her recent book, The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification, an account of gender and sexuality’s crucial role in the history and exercise of police power. [ Here …

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February 3, 2022: Rikers is Deadlier Than Ever

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday’s episode highlights the campaign to close Rikers jail in New York and continues our conversation with Anne Gray Fischer about the intertwined stories of policing, the surveillance of women’s bodies, and the creation of the racialized American ghetto.  Both Sy, an organizer against Rikers, and Gray …

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June 24, 2022: Captives with Jarrod Shanahan, Part One

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, Bella Bravo speaks with Jarrod Shanahan, a writer, activist, and professor of Criminal Justice based in Chicago. Shanahan has been on previous episodes, discussing mass incarceration and the George Floyd rebellion. We are speaking today about his new book Captives: How Rikers Island Took New …

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February 11, 2022: Life in a Maximum Restraint Unit

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this week’s episode, we air the first part of a conversation between Jok Huerta from Focus Initiatives and Rodney Jones, known as Big R. Both men share stories of their own incarceration, and describe life in a Maximum Restraint Unit. As Big R puts it, when …

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March 26, 2021: The Struggle for the Eurma C Hayes, Part Two

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 37.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOur show this week returns with the second part of a conversation between Kite Line’s Micol Seigel and three members of the Carbondale, Illinois community:  Chastity, Kim, and Nick. They speak about the ongoing struggle for the use of the Eurma C Hayes Community center. Originally opened …

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‘Black Lives Matter’ Overlay at Former Black Market Location

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 12:23 — 11.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe mural in People’s Park was anonymously overlaid with the words, “Black Lives Matter” on Friday, June 19, 2020. The City of Bloomington Arts Commission Met on July 8th, during a public meeting to decide whether or not it will keep the “Black Lives Matter” lettering.  “Defund …

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Bring It On! – September 23, 2019

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 51.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHosts Clarence Boone and William Hosea speak with Erin Predmore, President and CEO of The Greater Bloomington Chamber of Commerce and a trans-racial adoptive  parent. They explore the topic of trans-racial adoption and the concern that when minority children are placed in white families they may lose …

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After Shooting, Buttigieg Appears at Town Hall

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:45 — 3.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreSouth Bend Mayor and Democratic Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg continues to suspend campaign events, after last week’s fatal shooting of a black man by a white police officer. The 37 year-old, two-term mayor addressed the community at a town hall meeting, last night. The Associated Press reports …

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May 10, 2019: Appealing the Death Penalty- A Conversation with Zolo Azania, Part Two

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:08 — 42.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we return to our conversation with Zolo Agona Azania, who was recently released after surviving decades on Indiana’s death row.  In the second part of the conversation, he talks about researching the death penalty and appealing his death penalty sentence. The efforts of Azania, his …

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Bloomington Braces for Another Little 500 Weekend

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:43 — 1.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis year’s Little 500 race takes place on Friday and Saturday afternoons, at the newly-renovated Bill Armstrong Stadium on IU’s campus. The women’s race is Friday at 4 p.m. and the men’s is Saturday at 2 p.m. Each race consists of four rider teams racing around a …

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