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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:59 — 81.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHosts 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 …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:04 — 81.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday 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 …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:57 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHosts 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 …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 17:44 — 13.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIndiana 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 …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:14:01 — 101.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe 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 …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe’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 …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 44.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday 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 …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 52.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn 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 …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:33 — 39.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe 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 …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 42.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreStarting 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, …