Bring It On! – WFHB

This program originally aired on July 5, 2021:

Hosts, Clarence Boone and William Hosea, speak with Monica Fleetwood Black, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with IU Health Southern Indiana Physicians and a principal presenter with the BTCC Implicit Bias Training organization. Joining her is Attorney William Morris, the host of WFIU’s jazz program Just You and Me, for which he created the upbeat “Soul Kitchen”.  Today’s show is part two of last week’s discussion on implicit bias.

The BTCC Implicit Bias Training Community of Practice is a network of organizations and individuals collaborating to provide training, build relationships, and promote actionable change to address the root causes of social problems in Monroe County. The acronym BTCC stands for Building a Thriving Compassionate Community.

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This program was aired originally on June 28, 2021:

Hosts, Clarence Boone and William Hosea, speak with Monica Fleetwood Black, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with IU Health Southern Indiana Physicians and a principal presenter with the BTCC Implicit Bias Training organization. Joining her is Attorney William Morris, the host of WFIU’s jazz program Just You and Me, for which he created the upbeat “Soul Kitchen”.  Today’s show is part one of Bring It On!’s discussion on implicit bias.

The BTCC Implicit Bias Training Community of Practice is a network of organizations and individuals collaborating to provide training, build relationships, and promote actionable change to address the root causes of social problems in Monroe County. The acronym BTCC stands for Building a Thriving Compassionate Community.

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This program was originally aired June 26, 2023:

On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell are joined by Sierra Lee and Samantha Kirby. They are here to discuss the July 15th Nurse Family Partnership’s Maternal and Infant Advocacy event. Sierra is the organizer and is an intern this summer with the partnership. Samantha Kirby is a communication consultant with Indiana University Health. The purpose of this event is to inform individuals of the health care disparities amongst minority pregnant women. An overarching goal is also to educate women of color on how they can advocate for themselves when in a healthcare setting.

As defined by the Centers for Disease Control, infant mortality is the death of an infant before his or her first birthday. The infant mortality rate is the number of infant deaths for every 1,000 live births. In addition to providing critical information about maternal and infant health, the infant mortality rate is an important marker of the overall health of a society.

In 2020, the infant mortality rate in the United States was 5.4 deaths per 1,000 live births. In 2019, the infant mortality rate in Non-Hispanic Black communities was 10.6%, while the rate for Non-Hispanic White communities was 4.5% The Healthy People 2030 initiative sets data-driven national objectives to improve health and well-being over the next decade. While rates of infant mortality are trending to desired levels, in communities of color, women and children are still inordinately dying in childbirth, and their deaths seem to be invisible.

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Liz Mitchell hosts today’s broadcast of “Bring It On!”. As a producer of “Dark Past, Bright Future”, Liz Mitchell has had the pleasure of researching and interviewing a wide array of fascinating topics and guests. Tonight, it is her honor to air a documentary on the phenomenal life of Bloomington legend, Reverend Marvin Chandler, who transitioned from this world on Saturday, September 23.

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This program was originally aired on July 29, 2019.

Today’s show focuses on how African-American ex-slaves were pioneers and part of the U.S.’s expansion into the Western Frontier, focusing on free-black settlers in Indiana and other parts of the Midwest. Hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell, speak with La Vella Hyter, President of the Board of Directors for the Indiana Roberts Settlement*, and Stanley Madison, Chairman of the Board for Lyles Station Historic Preservation Corporation**.

They are also joined by Dr. Anna-Lisa Cox, author, award-winning historian, and Non-Resident Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Dr. Cox’s newest book is The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America’s Forgotten Pioneers and the Struggle for Equality, which chronicles the long-hidden stories of America’s black pioneers of the Western frontier.

*The Roberts Settlement was an early rural settlement in Jackson Township, Hamilton County, Indiana, dating from the 1830s whose first settlers were free people of color, most of whom migrated from the Beech Settlement, located 40 miles (64 km) southeast in rural Rush County, Indiana.

**The Lyles Station Historic Preservation Corporation (LSHPC), a not-for-profit (501(C)3) organization, was established in August 1998 for the specific and primary purpose of preservation of the oral, written, and physical history, artifacts, buildings, and land which identifies and/or describes events, activities and life experiences of the people and the community known as Lyles Station in Gibson County, Indiana. Lyles Station is an early black settlement started in the 1830s.

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This was originally aired on April 3, 2023:

Today’s hosts of Bring It On!, William Hosea and Dana Black, spend the hour discussing and analyzing the impacts and implications of the first indictment of a former U.S. President, Donald J. Trump with two recurring Bring It On! guests:

Robin Winston is a  political strategist and former State Democratic Party Chair.  In 1999, he made history when he became the first African-American to chair a major political party in Indiana. A native of Pennsylvania, Mr. Winston moved to Kentucky to pursue his education and start a career in business, government, and politics. He is a graduate of the University of Louisville, where he was elected president of the student body.

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IU Emeritus Law Professor Joseph Hoffman is an award-winning scholar and previous holder of the Harry Pratter Professorship, and past recipient of the Law School Gavel Award. He is a nationally recognized authority on the death penalty, he has also written extensively about criminal procedure and habeas corpus law. Hoffmann is co-author of a groundbreaking book on habeas corpus, Habeas for the 21st Century: Uses, Abuses and the Future of the Great Writ (University of Chicago Press, 2011) (with Nancy J. King). He is also a co-author of one of the leading casebooks in criminal procedure law, Comprehensive Criminal Procedure (Aspen 2nd ed. 2005) (with Allen, Livingston, and Stuntz).

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On tonight’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and William Hosea, spend the hour with Professor Joseph Hoffman (emeritus) of Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law to help us better understand their legal positions and Trump’s legal entanglements.

Donald Trump’s fourth indictment occurred on August 14th. Fani Willis, district attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, which contains most of Atlanta, indicted Donald Trump on racketeering charges including election interference. The former President turned himself in Thursday night at the Fulton County Jail to be booked on felony charges in connection with efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia.

It now stands that Donald J. Trump has four indictments and three civil cases. Of the four indictments confronting Donald Trump, the Georgia case is the most inescapable, because it is not a federal crime. Thus, a future President Trump cannot order the Justice Department to drop it or pardon himself. Also, he recently lost his bid to hold this trial in a federal court. Now some claim Trump is ineligible to run for the office of the U.S. President.

The claim is that former President Trump engaged in an insurrection and gave aid and comfort to other individuals who were engaging in such actions. This is well within the confines of Section Three of the 14th Amendment. And so, assuming that the public record to date is accurate, Trump therefore is no longer eligible to seek the office of the President of the United States, or of any other state of the Union. Professor Joseph Hoffman (emeritus) is here to disentangle how this aspect of the U.S. Constitution should be applied and other legal issues facing Donald J. Trump.

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On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell, spend the hour with Dr. Marvin Dunn. Dr. Dunn is fighting against the potential miseducation of countless children and young adults in Florida. He is here to discuss his efforts to combat this miseducation and the current state of racial politics in Florida.

Last Wednesday, August 16, 2023, before the first day of school for the Miami-Dade County school system, he led a march to protest the new education curriculum standards instituted by the Republican Governor Ron DeSantis that affect the teaching of Black history. This is part of a larger effort by DeSantis to purge what he calls “woke” idealogy in Florida.

Earlier this year, DeSantis had rejected the College Board’s AP African American Studies course for high school students because it included lessons on diaspora reparations, Black LGBTQIA+ studies, and the Black Lives Matter Movement. He has also barred instruction in schools that suggests anyone is privileged or oppressed based on their race or skin color, according to a CNN report. The new curriculum teaches that some Black people benefited from being enslaved because they learned useful skills.

Dr. Dunn was joined by some members of the Teamsters National Black Caucus, who then were holding a conference in Miami. Tennessee state Representative Justin Pearson also joined the protest. Rep. Pearson, along with fellow representative Justin James, had recently been voted back into office, after being expelled for calling out state Republicans for failing to pass gun control laws after the Covenant School mass shooting in Nashville.

The union representing around 150,000 Florida teachers, the Florida Education Association, called these new curriculum changes  “a disservice to Florida students and are a big step backward for a state that has required teaching African American history since 1994.” One of the most controversial aspects of these new standards includes teaching that some Blacks benefited from chattel slavery by learning useful skills. Further, these new curriculum changes include teaching that the Rosewood massacre was instigated by when a black man shot two white men who came onto his porch, rather than that a white woman falsely accused a Black man of assault.

Dr. Dunn has been leading “Teach No Lies” tours that take teachers and young people to places like Rosewood, Florida. Officially, it is recorded that the Rosewood Massacre of 1923 led to the killing of six Black residents and the fleeing of the rest of its black residents. Many say, however, that the death toll was much higher. By the massacre’s end, all but one of Rosewood’s buildings had been burned down. No law enforcement agency ever did an investigation, nor were there any criminal charges.

Dr. Dunn is a professor emeritus at Florida International University, and the author of many books, including A History of Florida: Through Black Eyes, where he writes:

Almost all of Florida’s painful racial past has been whitewashed, marginalized, or buried intentionally. But I was born here. I know Florida’s flowers and her warts.

He is also a co-founder of the Miami Center for Racial Justice. He began giving his Tell No Lies Tours in response to the state’s escalating efforts to further whitewash Florida’s Black History.

On a personal front, Dr. Dunn recently saw his neighbor, David Emanuel, convicted on July 26 on six counts of federal hate crime charges for screaming the N-word and attempting to run him and five companions over in September 2022. Dr. Dunn, 83,  acquired his five-acre property across from Emanuel’s home back in 2008 and turned it into a park to “celebrate Rosewood heritage.” He is the only black homeowner currently in Rosewood.

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This program originally aired on January 11, 2021:

On today’s edition of Bring It On! hosts William Hosea and Liz Mitchell welcome Dr. Amrita Myers, who is the Ruth Halls Associate Professor of History and Gender Studies at Indiana University. Together they examine what the insurgency and siege of the Capitol Building in Washington by Trump supporters, in an attempt to overturn the 2020 Presidential Election results, says about white supremacy in the United States.

The Trump-endorsed insurgency on the Capitol Building and its aftermath have caused the Democratic and some members of the Republic Party to call for a historic 2nd impeachment of Donald J. Trump and the use of the 25th Amendment to remove him from office immediately. As many in the media have already pointed out, the lack of police preparedness to the violent Trump revolt is particularly startling given the overwhelming use of force used against largely peaceful Black Life Matters during the previous summer. The motivating subtext of QAnon-inspired white nationalism and structural racism, in part, seems to explain the violent action taken by the Trump supports who were involved. These issues and more are examined in today’s edition of Bring It On!.

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Today on Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell, spend the hour with David Gudaitis,  Alan Backler, and Larry Laswell to preview the upcoming documentary, Reviving the West Baden Colored Church: A Labor of Love.  It tells the story of the First Baptist (Colored) Church in West Baden Springs, Indiana, from its founding and years of growth to its decline and rebirth. It also talks about the people who were involved in each stage of the church’s development.

Finally, Reviving the West Baden Colored Church chronicles the challenges of the extensive restoration that took place over five years leading to its revival. After this screening, directors Elizabeth Michell and David Gudaitis and volunteers who helped restore the church will share insights and answer questions.

Reviving the West Baden Colored Church documentary is set to air at 4 p.m., on Sunday, August 20th at the West Baden Hotel, and at 3 p.m. on Sunday, August 27th at the Monroe County Public Library. Both showings are free to the public.

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