Bring It On! – WFHB

This program originally aired on October 17, 2022:

On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell speak with William Hosea, Alonzo Johnson, Jim Mitchell, and James Sanders about how it is to live as black men in the United States.

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Today’s broadcast originally aired on June 27, 2022:

In today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell spend the hour with Leon Bates, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Pan-African Studies, at the University of Louisville, KY. He focuses on Urban History (i.e. Education, Housing, Labor, Medicine, Policing, Violence), and the Intersection of Race. Mr. Bates has conducted extensive research on Racialized Violence. In particular, he has focused on lynchings in Indiana.

Indiana has 21 official cases of reported lynching, and one lynching survivor, James Cameron, Jr. In the 1940s, he founded three chapters of the NAACP and later served as Indiana’s State Director of the Office of Civil Liberties. In 1988, he also founded America’s Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee. Cameron is the only known survivor of a lynching attempt in the United States.

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This show was initially aired on January 30, 2023.

On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and William Hosea welcome Robin Winston, an accomplished business leader and a skilled political strategist, to talk about Black Americans and the Republican Party.

Five Facts about Black Republicans include:

Today, only about one-in-ten Black adults identify with or lean toward the Republican Party. Moreover, in a Pew Research Center survey in October, only 4% of Black registered voters said they would vote for the Republican candidate for the U.S. House seat in their district, while 69% said they would back the Democratic candidate.

Robin Winston joins the program to provide his astute observations on Black Americans’ relationship with the Republican Party. Along with his views on the political horizon in Indiana, he will field some questions pertaining to the circus atmosphere in the US House of Representatives, Donald Trump’s last stand in Georgia and up and coming Democratic talent like Rep. Hakeem Jeffries.

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Today’s On Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell, spend the hour with Aaron Bonds, the Director of Actor Interpretation & Theater for the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis.

The mission of the nationally recognized Children’s Museum of Indianapolis is to create extraordinary learning experiences across the arts, sciences, and humanities that have the power to transform the lives of children and families. Aaron Bonds is here to discuss how the museum programmatically achieves its goal of creating extraordinary learning experiences through interpretive acting and theatrical performances.

Today’s hosts are Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell.

Originally aired on June 13, 2022:

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 a Master of Public Health and a Ph.D. in Health Behavior, focusing on Health Inequities. She was a former Chief Diversity Officer with the Indiana Supreme Court.

Sundown towns, also known as sunset towns, gray towns, or sundowner towns, are all-white municipalities or neighborhoods in the United States that practice a form of racial segregation by excluding non-whites via some combination of discriminatory local laws, and intimidation, or violence. The term came from signs posted that “colored people” had to leave town by sundown. The same process also created entire sundown counties and sundown suburbs. The practice was not restricted to the southern states, with New Jersey and other northern states being described as equally inhospitable to black travelers until at least the early 1960s.

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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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This is a rebroadcast from June 12, 2017:

Cornelius Wright and Leila Randle host interviews, one on the history of Juneteenth through the decades, and the other on open-mic night comedy from a personal perspective.  One funny interview, and one solemn.  Both riveting.

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This week, on Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell, continue their conversation about Lick Creek. Last week, they spoke with Diana Daniels, a descendant of Lick Creek Settlement, founded by the first African American settlers, who came to Orange County, Indiana five years before the County was established and Indiana became a state. These settlers were free citizens who fled racial persecution and increasingly restrictive laws for free blacks in their previous homes in North Carolina. Traveling with the Quakers offered some protection on their journey and the promise of supportive neighbors upon their arrival. By 1855, the settlement reached its maximum size of 1,557 acres.

This week, they have Diana Daniels joined by LaVella Hyter, a descendant of the Roberts Settlement. The Roberts Settlement was an early rural settlement in Hamilton County, Indiana. Dating from the 1830s, its first settlers were free people of color, most of whom migrated from Beech Settlement, located 40 miles southeast in rural Rush County, Indiana. Many of Roberts Settlement’s early pioneers were born in eastern North Carolina and Virginia. Some of its settlers were ex-slaves. The neighborhood received its name from the large contingent of its residents with the Roberts surname.

By the 1870s the farming community had a population of approximately 300 residents. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the settlement’s population began to decline, largely due to changing economic conditions that included rising farming costs. Fewer than six families remained at the settlement by the mid-1920s. Most of Indiana’s early black rural settlements, including Roberts Settlement, no longer exist. The Roberts Chapel, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, serves as the site for the community’s annual reunions of its friends and the descendants of former residents. Here to shed more light upon the Roberts Settlement is LaVella Hyter.

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On today’s edition of Bring It On!,  hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell, speak with Diana Daniels of the Lick Creek African American Settlement. These settlers were free citizens who fled racial persecution and increasingly restrictive laws for free blacks in their previous homes in North Carolina. Traveling with the Quakers offered some protection on their journey and the promise of supportive neighbors upon their arrival. According to the census records, there were 96 blacks living in Orange County in 1820. As more blacks came into the area, they purchased land from the United States of America (patented) in what we now call the Lick Creek African American Settlement area.

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This is a rebroadcast from May 8, 2023.

On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell welcome Chef Lee Rosser.

In a recent Bloom Magazine article, Carmen Siering wrote that for more than 25 years, Lee Rosser was a professional wrestler—a showman with a flair for pageantry, storytelling, and bringing people together. Now, as Chef Lee, he does the same thing using culinary skills gained after stepping out of the ring. He has also been featured in the Times Herald.

Lee Rosser, who is 51, is from Gary, Indiana, and is the eldest of seven children raised by a single mother. “I grew up in the ’hood, and I wanted a way out,” he says. “Wrestling offered me that.” He started wrestling in the mid-90s, traveling a circuit and making a name for himself as “PT Hustla”. His break came when he met Chef JJ Boston at an autograph-signing event at Victory Field in Indy. Soon, he was promoting himself as “Caterer Lee Rosser Punching You with Flavor” as he took his flair for showmanship from the ring to the kitchen. He joins us to share his story of transformation.

Dark Past-Bright Future: Garrett Morgan and Fred Patterson

Today, we also have a special Dark Past-Bright Future segment ideally suited for the month of May featuring Garrett Morgan, the black inventor of the automotive traffic control light, and the story of an unsung black race car driver, Fred Patterson. Garrett Morgan was an African-American inventor who invented two very different and important things: the gas mask and the traffic signal. During his long life, he also became one of the most recognized and respected African-Americans in the country. Frederick Douglas Patterson was the first African American to build motorized cars. The first Patterson automobile, the Patterson-Greenfield, rolled off the line on September 23, 1915.

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