Bring It On! – WFHB

This is a rebroadcast from February 6, 2023:

On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell spend the hour with Malcolm Abrams, the editor and publisher of Bloom Magazine. He discusses his passion for publishing Bloom and why he is driven to showcase the diversity and richness that is Bloomington.

Bloom Magazine is a bimonthly culture and lifestyle magazine published in Bloomington. Founded in 2005 by editor and publisher Malcolm Abrams, Bloom is an independent and free magazine, which highlights and promotes inclusion and diversity in every issue. Within its pages, peppered with high-quality photography, readers learn about Bloomington’s, local community, the arts, entertainment, food and wine, fashion and shopping, health and fitness, and business and finance.

This month marks their 100th publication, which is an achievement for an individual with a lengthy career in news and print. Abrams worked for Rupert Murdoch as vice president/editorial director of Murdoch Business Magazines, where he was responsible for twenty publications including Travel Weekly, Meetings & Conventions, and Business and Commercial Aviation. Abrams is also the co-author of “Future Stuff,” and its sequel, “More Future Stuff,” both published by Viking Penguin.

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On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell, speaks with Jesse Hagopian, a high school educator, with over twenty years of experience, and social justice activist. He taught for over ten years at Seattle’s Garfield High School, where the historic boycott of the MAP test or Measures of Academic Progress took place. Jesse is an editor for the social justice periodical Rethinking Schools, and is the co-editor of the books, Black Lives Matter at School, Teaching for Black Lives, Teacher Unions and Social Justice, and is the editor of the book, More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing.

Jesse’s essay on the MAP test boycott and the ensuing national uprising against high-stakes testing was published in Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove’s 10th anniversary edition of Voices of a People’s History of the United States. Jesse’s commentary has been featured on many local and national news programs including, HBO’s “Problem Areas” with Wyatt Cenac, NBC’s “Education Nation,” The PBS News Hour with Gwen Ifill, CNN, Keith Olberman’s Countdown, The Dan Rather Report, Democracy Now!, The Real News Network, Busted Pencils, The Laura Flanders Show, and C-Span’s “Book TV.”

On January 15th of 2024, the City of Bloomington will observe the MLK Birthday Celebration with the theme of Unlocking Freedom: The Transformative and Liberating Power of Education. Jesse Hagopian will inform and inspire during special remarks as a keynote speaker .

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On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell, speak with Bo Petersen, a professional South African actress, currently living in the United States. She wrote, produced, and stars in Pieces of Me, an autobiographical play. She exposes the devastating, emotional cost of living secretly as a mixed-race family under the vicious racist apartheid regime and the legacy it bore.

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This is a rebroadcast from a program originally aired on December 4, 2017:

In tonight’s “Bring It On!” episode, hosts, Roberta Radovich and William Hosea, interview Dr. Audrey McCluskey. Dr. McCluskey is an IU emeritus faculty member, past Director of the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, and past Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of African American & African Diaspora Studies. Dr.McCluskey shares her scholarly insight into the emergence of the “Colored Schools” in America.

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On today’s edition of Bring It On!, host Clarence Boone and guest host Dr. Gloria Howell spend the hour with Dr. Charlie Nelms and Frank Motley to discuss efforts nationwide to ban schools from teaching critical race theory and the 1619 Project.

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On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Ane Jenkins, speak with Troy T. Thomas, Jr., the founder and lead vocalist for Trumusiq. He is here today to promote an upcoming evening of inspirational and uplifting entertainment, food, music, and fun at the “Moments of Truth” Mental Health Gala and Awards Program scheduled for Dec. 2nd, at 6 p.m. at the Warehouse – 1525 South Rogers St. To get tickets, go to trumusiq.com.

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This is a rebroadcast from May 30, 2021:

In today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell, talk about the history of black women in the military. From the Revolutionary War to present-day conflicts, women have proudly served in the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard as nurses, pilots, engineers, soldiers and other specialties. During World War I, about 35,000 women officially served as nurses and support staff. Nonetheless, many black women also broke barriers while serving in the U.S. Military. These women worked on the front lines or supported U.S. soldiers and civilian employees.

Carrying on with this fine tradition of service are two remarkable women of color with whom we have the pleasure of speaking this evening. They are Dr. Alfreda R. Carmichael, who enlisted in the United States Air Force and was a Contract Specialist. While in the military, she deployed to multiple locations, including Iraq’s combat deployment. Dr. Carmichael served as the First Female President of Montford Point Marine Association Chapter 10. She is currently the National Treasurer and National Scholarship Director for National Montford Point Marine Association.

Joining her is Takishia Smiley, who joined the United States Marine Corps, and served 21 years and 5 months as a CWO-3 Supply Operations Professional in automated supply systems and logistic initiatives. She has over 26 years of experience in Supply Chain Management and Distribution Information Management. She is currently the Director at the National Museum of the Montford Point Marine.

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On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell, explore what the term woke really means.  To help us better understand the concept and origins of “Wokeness”, Artina Carter, Chief of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion for the Huron-Clinton MetroParks in Southeast Michigan, joins them.

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This is a rebroadcast from August 17, 2020.

Hosts Cornelius Wright and Amnita Myers discuss the 1921 Tulsa/Greenwood Race Massacre with Liz Mitchel, a regular Bring It On! anchor and producer of award-winning WFHB segment “Dark Past, Bring Future”, and Professor Jewell Parker-Rhodes, bestselling novelist and award-winning academic.

The Tulsa Race Massacre occurred over the span of two days in 1921,  from May 31 to June 1, when mobs of whites from the area indiscriminately attacked and often killed the black residents, especially those living in the Greenwood District of Tulsa. The white mobs went on to destroy more than 35 square blocks of what was then the wealthiest black community in the United States, which was dubbed the “Black Wall Street”.

In mid-June, Donald Trump was widely criticized as extremely insensitive to this tragedy when he scheduled his “Keep America Great” rally in Tulsa, OK shortly after the Massacre’s 99-year anniversary and on, and then rescheduled to the day after, Juneteenth.  With the spark of the massacre starting with the arrest of 19-year-old black  Dick Rowland for the assault of Sarah Page, a 17-year-old white, rumors had spread that Rowland was going to be lynched. Reportedly, 75 black men, some armed, arrived at the jail to ensure that would not happen. After reassurance from the sheriff,  while the group of black men was leaving the jail, a member of the white mob already assembled at the jail attempted to disarm one of the black men. A shot was fired, and, according to the sheriff, “all hell broke loose”.

Many members of the white mob were deputized and armed by city officials.  It is estimated that more than 800 black residents were hospitalized and up to 6,000 black residents were detained, many for several days. Officially, 36 were killed in the Race Massacre, but historians have estimated that anywhere from 75 to 300 were killed. Black Wall Street was left in ashes.

Professor Jewell Parker Rhodes and Liz Mitchell come to Bring It On! to help us understand this tragedy and its long-lasting psychological and economic impact on the black communities in Tulsa and throughout the United States.

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