Bring It On! – WFHB

Gloria Howell and Maqubé Reese are the hosts of today’s show. Throughout March, to commemorate Women’s History Month, each new show will be hosted by women. Gloria Howell is the director of the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center.  Maqubé Reese is an academic advisor with the Groups Scholars Program and consults with incoming Groups Scholars on topics like the courses they should take their first semester, helping guide the first steps of their college experience.

Last Tuesday, the Monroe County Community School Board approved an anti-racism policy, after deciding not to vote on it during last month’s meeting. A student equity ambassador group created last fall helped draft the policy with school administrators. The district also received support from The Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center. Four of the student equity ambassadors were also S.W.A.G.G.E.R. (Students Who Act Generously, Grow, and Earn Respect) award recipients in the 9th-12th grade category. They are Sydney Crossley, Sabrah Wagner, Jael Davis, and Saphyne Franklin. They displayed exceptional leadership in social justice activism by advocating for an anti-racism policy to be included in the MCCSC student handbook.

District leaders made several changes to the policy since its first reading in December because of feedback from the community, including changing the policy’s name from a Racial Equity Policy to an Anti-Racism Policy. The revised policy includes a commitment that the district will introduce plans to track and enforce the policy’s objectives as soon as possible. Joining us this evening to unpack the new anti-racism policy are student equity ambassadors Sydney Crossley and Jael Davis. Also, joining us is Ruth Aydt, a concerned citizen who joined the Monroe County Branch of the NAACP in 2018, initially working on a report on Race and Criminal Justice in Monroe County.

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Gloria Howell and Maqubé Reese are the hosts of today’s show. Throughout March, to commemorate Women’s History Month, each new show will be hosted by women. Gloria Howell is the director of the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center.  Maqubé Reese is an academic advisor with the Groups Scholars Program and consults with incoming Groups Scholars on topics like the courses they should take their first semester, helping guide the first steps of their college experience.

Last Tuesday, the Monroe County Community School Board approved an anti-racism policy, after deciding not to vote on it during last month’s meeting. A student equity ambassador group created last fall helped draft the policy with school administrators. The district also received support from The Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center. Four of the student equity ambassadors were also S.W.A.G.G.E.R. (Students Who Act Generously, Grow, and Earn Respect) award recipients in the 9th-12th grade category. They are Sydney Crossley, Sabrah Wagner, Jael Davis, and Saphyne Franklin. They displayed exceptional leadership in social justice activism by advocating for an anti-racism policy to be included in the MCCSC student handbook.

District leaders made several changes to the policy since its first reading in December because of feedback from the community, including changing the policy’s name from a Racial Equity Policy to an Anti-Racism Policy. The revised policy includes a commitment that the district will introduce plans to track and enforce the policy’s objectives as soon as possible. Joining us this evening to unpack the new anti-racism policy are student equity ambassadors Sydney Crossley and Jael Davis. Also, joining us is Ruth Aydt, a concerned citizen who joined the Monroe County Branch of the NAACP in 2018, initially working on a report on Race and Criminal Justice in Monroe County.

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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) to assess the current state of U.S. politics.

Our current national politics can best be described as a 3-ring circus. Here on Bring It On! we are not at a loss for topics to discuss. There are Trump’s latest legal woes; a proposed “National Divorce” by GOP poster-child Marjorie Taylor Green; the release of over 44,000 hours of surveillance footage of the January 6th insurrection to FOX news by Speaker Kevin McCarthy and a couple of U.S. Supreme Court cases addressing social media, and North Carolina election laws. And let’s not forget a multi-billion-dollar defamation lawsuit against FOX news network. Here to help us decipher the legal implications in the political- sphere is Indiana University Law Professor Joseph Hoffman, an award-winning scholar and Harry Pratter Professor of Law Emeritus, and past recipient of the Law School Gavel Award.

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This is a rebroadcast from July 18, 2023:

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. Today he explores the life and times of Lt. Col. Joseph H. Ward (1872-1956).

Ward was an African American surgeon, hospital administrator, and World War I veteran. Ward established and operated a hospital for black patients when they were barred from treatment elsewhere. He was a medical trailblazer and early American Legion member whose achievements – decades before the civil-rights movement – have been largely forgotten.

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On today’s edition of Bring It On!, guest hosts Liz Mitchell and Gloria Howell spend the hour with Monroe County Sheriff Ruben Martè and Monroe County Councilor and co-member of the Community Justice Reform Committee Jennifer Crossly.

Although being sworn in as Sheriff for just a little over a month, two incidents have already occurred within the Monroe County Jail. The most recent altercation resulted in the firing of a correctional officer. In an unrelated matter, Sheriff Martè recently made a graphic and riveting presentation on the deplorable conditions of the Monroe County Jail to the Community Justice Reform Committee.

Citing the jail conditions, Sheriff Martè stated that his department is not moving too fast in its approach, citing the urgent need to improve the current facility while also investing in a new one. Quoting him now, “When I see something like that, that is throughout the jail, I cannot go slow,” Marté further said. “We have a recipe that can really take off in that jail, if we give them time.” Monroe County Sheriff Ruben Martè, and Monroe County Councilor and co-member of the Community Justice Reform Committee Jennifer Crossley joins the program today to shed more light upon the situation.

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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 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 the relationship between Black Americans and 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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On today’s edition of Bring It On!, host Clarence Boone welcomes Bloomington’s Safe and Civil City Director, Shatoyia Moss, and, Indiana University’s Director of the Neal-Marshall Black Culture, Gloria Howell to discuss the city’s celebration of black history during February.

The theme for the City of Bloomington’s 2023 Black History Month celebration is “Black Innovation”. The month’s events will celebrate and explore Black inventors, creators, and change agents and how Black innovators changed the way we live through their contributions, from the traffic light to the cell phone. Most people have heard about famous inventions like the light bulb, the cotton gin, and the ironing board. However, there are countless other, often overlooked creators and inventions that make our daily lives easier.

Also, on the Indiana University Bloomington campus, the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center has curated Black History Month experiences centered on the theme: “For the Love of Soul”. A quintessential element of Black culture, “soul” is that “special something” that makes us who we are. It is a particular aesthetic that acknowledges Black brilliance, beauty, and creativity in a multitude of ways.

From the arts and cuisine to intellectualism and community tradition, we are excited to celebrate all the soulful people, places, and things this Black History Month!

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For this year’s Bloomington MLK Day observance the theme  is “Keep Knocking!” The January 16 evening keynote speaker, Park Cannon, is Georgia’s youngest State Representative and one of two openly queer lawmakers in the Georgia General Assembly. She represents House District 58, which encompasses a diverse cross-section of Atlanta.

The Democratic lawmaker recently made national headlines when she was unlawfully arrested and removed from the Georgia Capitol after she knocked on the door to the Republican governor’s office during his signing of SB 202. This restrictive law limits voting rights in the state. Republicans rushed the bill through both chambers of the legislature a few hours before he signed it into law. It has been harshly criticized nationwide for disenfranchising Black voters, is being challenged in court, and is being dubbed “Jim Crow 2.0.”

Tonight Representative Cannon talks about her start in politics and the state of affairs in the State of Georgia. She also shares her reflections on such issues as the Mid- term success of Senator Raphael Warnock and her work with such civic leaders as Stacey Abrams. Finally, as the keynote for next Monday’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we’re inviting her to share a preview of her remarks.

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On tonight’s show, we re-air a show from September 24th, 2018. This show features an anonymous Dreamer and Christine Popp of Popp & Bullman Attorneys-At-Law. She is an expert on immigration issues. This is a lead-up to a live interview that we are planning for next Monday to talk with her about her recent trip to Tijuana, Mexico.

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