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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 39.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOriginally aired on June 13, 2022: Dr. Gina Forrest In today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell spend the hour with Dr. Gina Forrest. She has conducted extensive research on Sundown towns in Indiana. Dr. Forrest graduated from Indiana University Bloomington with …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn his 1923 book, Towards a New Architecture, French architect Le Corbusier wrote, The machinery of Society, profoundly out of gear, oscillates between an amelioration, of historical importance, and a catastrophe. The primordial instinct of every human being is to assure himself of a shelter. The various …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn an English romantic novel from 1796, the title character and hero, Marchmont, exclaims “is it possible that for a small sum, such as it is likely such people as these can owe, their creditor has a right to shut them up from the common air, and …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:58 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe deeply racist Nobel Prize-winning novelist William Faulkner once wrote in his 1951 novel, Requiem for a Nun, that the past isn’t dead, it’s not even past. In that same book Faulkner has the “nun,” which carries the meaning of prostitute in Shakespeare’s time, a Black drug …

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 — 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, …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 5:42 — 13.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreBusinesses and community leaders spoke out against the latest version of Indiana’s proposed hate crimes bill, after an amendment in the state senate deleted two-thirds of the proposed legislation. That amendment gutted protections for race, religion, age, sexual orientation and gender identity, among others. Indiana sits on …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:58 — 68.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn their first meeting of 2019, the Ellettsville Town Council elected new leadership; The Indy 11 may be getting a new stadium, and taxpayers may foot the $550 million bill; State Rep. (R-Greensburg) Randy Frye is pursuing tighter controls over grants from the Indiana Veteran’s Affairs Department, in the …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 53:36 — 49.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOn Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the city of Bloomington invited the Rev. Harold Middlebrook, a peer and close friend of Dr. King’s to, make the keynote address in the Buskirk-Chumley theater. Here, in full, is Rev. Middlebrook’s address on where we’ve come, and how far …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 56:31 — 51.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreAs a photographer for Life and Fortune magazines, Margaret Bourke-White traveled to Russia in the 1930s, photographed the Nazi takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1938, recorded the liberation of Buchenwald a the end of World War II, and documented “Calcutta streets strewn with putrefying corpses decaying in the …