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Welcome to the April edition of Civic Conversations – a podcast collaboration between WFHB and the League of Women Voters. Our episode today revolves around tribalism. Our guest, Marjorie Hershey, professor of political science at Indiana University, walks through the issue of tribalism with our host, Jim Allison. According to her university bio, Professor Hershey’s research and teaching interests focus …

Hosts, Carlos Bakota and Josefa Madrigal, speak with Professor Dr. Francisco Vázquez about a variety of topics and historical movements that have helped shaped our Latino community. Professor Vázquez also discusses the impact of the current COVID-19 pandemic on Latinx/Hispanic community and steps that can be taken to ensure continuity for all that have been effected. Locutores, Carlos Bakota y …

John Lewis, a longtime Georgia Congressman and Black Civil Rights leader, died on Friday after a six-month-long battle with cancer.  Lewis, the son of sharecroppers, was born in rural Alabama during an era of Jim Crow laws. He grew up to become a Freedom Rider, a speaker at the 1963 March on Washington and a recipient of the Presidential Medal …

Welcome to Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio anniversary episode, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Indiana University Asian Culture Center! Hearabouts is produced in partnership with WFHB and the IU Asian Culture Center, in Bloomington, Indiana. We ask critical questions about identity, culture, community and shared assumptions. On today’s episode, we feature two IU Alumni, Khai Yang and Dr. Paul Park, …

On today’s episode of Bring It On, Dr. Amrita Myers and Jim Sims speak to Beth Applegate, president of Applegate Consulting Group, and Jennifer Brooks, along with resident anchor William Hosea to discuss Showing Up For Racial Justice (SURJ), an initiative dedicated to building accountability with people of color doing exceptional work dealing with racial justice in Bloomington and Monroe …

Host Doug Storm is joined by William Morris and Joe Varga to discuss the genesis of the Moral Mondays Movement in North Carolina and how it has begun to form a broad coalition here in Indiana. A Mother Jones article from April, 2014 describes the impetus for Moral Mondays as being political action against a Republican agenda in North Carolina. …