En Hola Bloomington, Josefa Madrigal, entrevisto a invitad@s Brenda Espinoza del Caucus Latino Democrático IN-9, está Dyna Martinez del Caucus IN LatinX a nivel estatal y a Robinson de Jesus-Romero, el secretario de la Asociación de Estudiantes Latinos Graduados (LGSA). Ell@s comparten información sobre el VOTO LATINO y la manera que nos impacta. Lo importante que es hacer una decisión …
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On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and William Hosea, assess the recent political actions and scandals of Donald J. Trump in light of the upcoming 2020 Presidential Election. To help them sort through the myriad issues involved are Professor Joseph L. Hoffman and USMC Major General Craig Q. Timberlake (Ret.). Today’s show provides an assessment of …
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The 1980’s farm crisis defined an entire generation of farmers and the rural communities that surrounded and relied on them. Interest rates soared. Farm land value dropped. A decade of record-breaking production in farm commodities led to a glut, a surplus, that depressed prices. Exports declined as the U.S. imposed an embargo on the Soviet Union. Farmers went bankrupt, foreclosed …
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On Wednesday, September 30, and Thursday, October 1, IU’s Department of History will be presenting three events designed to bring together IU and the greater Bloomington community in a conversation focused on race, white supremacy, and voter suppression. This year’s speaker for the virtual town hall meeting on Thursday, October 1, from 6 to 8 PM, is Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, …
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Our opening song is “Brother Malcolm” by Archie Shepp, from his 1999 release Conversations. Archie Shepp, surely one of the great political philosophers of so-called Jazz, accompanies us throughout. While preparing for this conversation another Black man, Jacob Blake, was shot in the back by police, this time in Kenosha, Wisconsin, but it could have been, likely has been, in …
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Our 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 people being killed fall out of the news cycle, Black people are killed …
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Hosts Roberta Radovich and Cornelius Wright spend the hour with Charlie Nelms, Vice President Emeritus of Indiana University, and George Middleton, founder of The Black Institute and member of the Indianapolis Black Chamber of Commerce. The hour is divided into two halves. First, the hosts and guests examine the State of Race Relations in the United States in light of …
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Today we’re joined by two of the four hosts of the Black Myths Podcast which is produced in Indianapolis: Too Black, a spoken word poet and teaching artist, and elle roberts, a writer and facilitator. As described on the show’s website, “The Black Myths Podcast is an informative conversational show analyzing popular myths about Black culture of a sociopolitical nature. …
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Hosts Clarence Boone and William Hosea spend the hour speaking with Amrita Myers and Jacinda Townsend, who are both Bring It On! contributors, post-secondary educators, and authors, along with local Black Lives Matters activist Jada Barbry. Today’s show focuses on issues of racial justice and increased calls for societal transformation in the aftermath of George Floyds’s murder. This time of …
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Indiana University is among a list of schools to rename statues and buildings of alumni whose pasts are clouded with racism. On Friday, the IU Board of Trustees voted unanimously to approve a resolution to rename the intramural center. The center is located on the Bloomington campus and will be renamed ‘The William Leon Garrett Fieldhouse,’ in honor of Bill …
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