Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:26 — 78.9MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, December 31st, 2025. In today’s newscast, we’re looking back at some of our reporting on immigration in 2025. We’ll look back at two reports from WFHB Correspondents tackling the topic of immigration early in 2025. That’s coming up in today’s episode …
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Bring It On! – November 3, 2025: “Off Night Stories: Immigrants, Refugees, & Asylum Seekers”, A Play
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 32.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this edition of Bring It On!, hosts Clarence Boone and Gloria Howell spend the hour with Audrey Seader, the Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Off Night Productions. She is here to discuss their upcoming production of Off Night Stories: Immigrants, Refugees, & Asylum Seekers. The play offers …
Read More »Policy Changes Raise Concerns for Local Immigrant and Refugee Communities
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 19:52 — 15.9MB)Subscribe: RSSFeature by Laurie Frederickson The American Immigration Council estimates that more than 400,000 immigrants and refugees reside in Indiana. But recent state and national-level policy changes have left immigrants and refugees feeling uncertain and concerned for their futures. The 2025 Indiana State Legislative Session has seen a record-breaking 15 …
Read More »Deep Dive: Refuge in Indiana (Part 1)
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 18:08 — 16.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis is Deep Dive: WFHB and Limestone Post Investigate where we look into issues regarding Health, Housing, and the Environment that directly impact residents of Monroe County. For this series WFHB and the Limestone Post collaborated with the Arnolt Center for Investigative Reporting. We are looking into …
Read More »WFHB AND LWV-BMC CIVIC CONVERSATIONS ON REFUGEE SUPPORT IN BLOOMINGTON
Founder of the Bloomington Refugee Support Network, Diane Legomsky joins Civic Conversations to discuss the issue of refugee support in Bloomington and nationally. In the podcast, we talk to Diane about the mission of Bloomington Refugee Support Network and how it interacts with other refugee resettlement organizations like Exodus Refugee Immigration. Diana breaks down for our audience the differences between being …
Read More »Eco Report – January 23, 2020
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 28.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOne barrier to people making the switch from conventional to electric cars is cost, mainly because batteries are still expensive. But Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, senior economist at the University of Michigan Energy Institute, says that’s changing. Firefighters in Australia have succeeded in saving a secret grove of prehistoric …
Read More »Area Attorney Fundraising for Refugee Networks
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:46 — 8.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis Mother’s Day, area restaurants are donating 10 percent of their proceeds to help refugees. Bloomington Cooperative Living and City of Bloomington’s Latino Programs are co-sponsoring the “Refugees Welcome Here” fundraiser, to help migrants at the southern border and in Bloomington. The fundraiser is organized by area …
Read More »July 13, 2018: Anti-Detention Occupations from Australia to America, Part Two
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:48 — 20.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreLast week, Aren Aizura guided us through the history of colonialism in Australia, including racist measures to control non-white immigration, and later, in the 1980s, the implementation of mandatory detention for refugees. He focused on his experiences in an occupation outside the remote Woomera Detention Center, and …
Read More »Governor Holcomb Declares Immigrant Heritage Week
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:59 — 1.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIndiana Governor Eric Holcomb declared last week Immigrant Heritage Week at a press conference, today. In a press release sent out today, Governor Holcomb declared last week as Immigrant Heritage Week. The retrospective declaration of a week dedicated to immigrants rights comes after pressure from Indiana Undocumented …
Read More »Introducing Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 18.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWelcome to Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio! Hearabouts is produced by WFHB and Indiana University’s Asian Culture Center. We ask critical questions about identity, culture, community and shared assumptions. On today’s episode, Hibah Butt interviews National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum Policy Director, Vimala Phongsavanh. A daughter …
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