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We are proud to announce that Bring It On! was notified by the Indiana Society of Professional Journalists that we earned a 3rd place “Best in Journalism” award under the category of Radio Documentary or Special. Our congratulations to our crew and especially to our Bring It On! contributors that we have convened today for a special two-part interview entitled …

We’re not talking about the mind today, but of internment, and ghettos, of settlement camps. Today’s conversation focuses on the history and origins of concentration, a form of biopolitics that seeks to manage and structure the movement of social groups in a predictable manner. Modern forms of concentration have become a nearly ubiquitous force of social structuring: from mass incarceration …

Today we honor Martin Luther King Jr. with a special edition of Bring It On! Tonight at 7 PM, the City of Bloomington is honoring the MLK holiday with a celebration at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. We are recognizing the 2020 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day with two riveting interviews. We’ll begin our show with a powerful discussion with Ms. …

In today’s edition of Bring It On! hosts Roberta Radovich and Nordia McNish speak with Katherine Lampke, marketing assistant and social media manager with the Hannah Center, and Shelonda Bledsoe, a registered doula, who works closely with the Hannah Center. They are here to talk about their wide-array of services along with ways of “Eliminating Racial and Socio-Economic Disparities in …

The Federal government rolled out the weed and seed program in the early 1990s in response to a new wave of urban uprisings. It placed social services under police control, so that cops could first “weed,” (i.e. remove undesirable elements) and then “seed” by distributing resources, following a classic model of counter-insurgency. Two decades were required for Weed and Seed …

Starting with real estate reforms in the 1970s supposedly instituted to open a path to the American Dream for Black citizens, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s new book, Race for Profit, a study of Black home ownership, argues that the turn from exclusion to inclusion was just another, less explicit, but equally damaging form of systemic racism. By the late 1960s and early …

In today’s segment we brought you news that Monroe County Council member Eric Spoonmore is urging community members to comment on a rate hike requested by Duke Energy. Monroe County Council member Shelli Yoder announced today she will resign her council position effective October 31st. Bloomington Mayor John Hamilton has announced he has invited The Bridge Initiative, an organization housed …

Hosts 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 a strong sense of racial identity. Erin Predmore expounds on her experience as …

For this week’s episode, we share a conversation between Melanie D. Newport and Anne Gray Fisher. They talk about the history of Cook County Jail- the largest facility in the country. Melanie D. Newport is an Assistant Professor of US History at the University of Connecticut-Hartford. Her work explores the criminal justice system in the United States since the 1950s. …

Dockworkers have power: workers in the world’s ports can harness their role, at a strategic choke point, to promote their labor rights and social justice causes. Our guest Peter Cole brings such experiences to light in a comparative study of Durban, South Africa, and the San Francisco Bay Area, California. Cole’s research reveals how unions effected lasting change in some …