Host Clarence Boone speaks with Dr. Terri Frances, director of the IU Black Film Center Archives. They are then joined in the second half of the program by Nina Lorez Collins, daughter of the accomplished author and filmmaker, Kathleen Collins. Nina Lorez Collins will be reading excerpts from “Notes from a Black Woman’s Diary”, a new collection of writings by …
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Our opening song is “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” – and its history alone illustrates the difficulties of centering anything black in this white capitalist country. We’re listening to Hank Crawford and Jimmy McGriff’s version off of their 1987 album, Steppin’ Up. Dubbed in 1919 by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the NAACP, as the “Negro …
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PART ONE: Hosts Clarence Boone and Roberta Radovich speak with Wes Martin, News Director for WFHB, about State Senate Bill 12. This is a hate crimes bill, in which Republicans removed all references to race, ethnicity, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation and other protected classes, on February 19, 2019. PART TWO: Hosts Clarence Boone and Roberta Radovich review with Shatoyia …
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