Bring It On! – WFHB

On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell speak with Maqubè Reese, who is the Associate Director of Diversity Initiatives Kelley School of Business at Indiana University – Bloomington.  Maqubè Reese is the founder and CEO of TRIBE Consulting. TRIBE stands for ‘Together, we are choosing to make room for Reconciliation focused on Intersectionality while Building a sustainable Ecosystem of care and responsibility.” Maqubè seeks to provide culturally sensitive, educational and healing-informed services to individuals, groups, and organizations. In 2021 she served on the City of Bloomington’s Commission on the Status of Women and chaired the City’s Black History Month Committee. She also  serves on the City’s Board of Public Safety. Currently she is president of the Monroe County Branch of the NAACP.

She is also a committee member for the Women of IU Conference. Her multiple honors include the inaugural IU DEI Luminary Awardee from the IU Bloomington Diversity Equity Multi-Cultural Affairs; the 2022 IU Woman of the Year award from the Delta Sigma Theta Gamma Nu chapter; the 2020 Black Woman Leader Award from the City of Bloomington Black History Month; the Alpha Kappa Alpha Kappa Tau Chapter Black Girls Rock Woman of the Year award, the 2018 Zeta Phi Beta Alumna Community Award., and is involved with Count Us In Indiana, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to encouraging diverse voter turnout.

Maqubè Reese was raised on the south side of Fort Wayne, Indiana and is the youngest of 13 children. She is a “proud first- generation college graduate,” she says. Her parents, who Reese refers to as loving and supportive, both died of health complications earlier in her life. “I’ve benefited from going to therapy to get some help through that trauma—not only with grief but trauma as a Black woman,” she says. “Being a Black woman in America is just hard—being Black in America is hard. I don’t understand why it’s so difficult. I just want to live, right? There is definitely deep-rooted, complex, structural, systemic racism that still affects and plagues us today.

“I think about my mom, and the fact that she had 13 beautiful Black kids and brought them into this world. She advocated for us every day, and I can only imagine what that felt like. When I’m advocating for just me sometimes, I’m exhausted.”

Reese came to Indiana University on scholarships through the Group Scholars and 21st Century Scholars programs. She studied human development and family studies, graduating in 2015. She also has a nonprofit management certificate, and an Eli Lilly Philanthropic certificate.

For five years, she worked as an advisor for the Groups Scholars Program. Reese focuses on what she is able to observe, engage, heal, and create. She completed her master’s in social work last year, applying her understanding of mental health to the community work she does and her career, and she works part-time as a therapist for adolescents at Bloomington Meadows Hospital.

When the pandemic hit in March 2020, she started a Facebook group called Humanity for the Win, which is a growing, international “space to highlight how humanity succeeds against all odds,” according to its published description. Group members post stories about “how humans are peacefully helping humans financially, spiritually, mentally, and physically… It’s part of my passion to build interconnected community,” Reese says.

Sources: 5 Questions with …Maqubè Reese (Office of the Provost & Executive Vice President, Indiana University Bloomington) and Bloom Magazine.

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This is a rebroadcast from October 24, 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 black men’s everyday contributions to the well-being of society and how they are shaping America’s future based upon the positive values that black men all share.

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This is a continuation from last week’s program.

The hosts of today’s edition of Bring It On! are Liz Mitchell and Clarence Boone. Earlier this fall the City of Bloomington Commission on the Status of Children and Youth (CSCY) sought nominations for the 2022 SWAGGER (Students Who Act Generously, Grow, and Earn Respect) Awards. The successful nominee shall have taken action that enhances the lives around them through generous acts, personal growth, and the promotion of respect. The S.W.A.G.G.E.R. (Students Who Act Generously, Grow and Earn Respect) award criteria acknowledges children and youth who have shown commitment to a cause or taken action(s) that has improved their lives and/or the lives of others around them. The award is granted from the Commission on the Status of Children and Youth, whose purpose is to promote connections in our community which empower, enhance and nurture children and youth.

Nominations were accepted from educators, neighbors, friends, relatives, and clergy of students who live or attend school within the Monroe County Community School Corporation area. Youth nominees fell into four school-age grade groups: K-3, 4-6, 7-8, and 9-12. Ultimately, seven young nominees won S.W.A.G.G.E.R Awards. They were selected from among 17 impressive young people, all of whom were recognized for their meaningful and generous acts. In the 9th-12th grade category, awards went to four African American ladies, Sydney Crossley, Sabrah Wagner, Jael Davis and Saphyne Franklin for exceptional leadership in social justice activism by advocating for a racial discrimination justice policy to be included in the MCCSC student handbook.

This evening three of those ladies, Sydney Crossley and Jael Davis, Sabrah Wagner, along with Mr. Isadore James “Jimmie” Torry, Co- Chair of the City of Bloomington Commission on the Status of Children and Youth, join Liz Mitchell and Clarence Boone.

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The hosts of today’s edition of Bring It On! are Liz Mitchell and Clarence Boone. Earlier this fall the City of Bloomington Commission on the Status of Children and Youth (CSCY) sought nominations for the 2022 SWAGGER (Students Who Act Generously, Grow, and Earn Respect) Awards. The successful nominee shall have taken action that enhances the lives around them through generous acts, personal growth, and the promotion of respect. The S.W.A.G.G.E.R. (Students Who Act Generously, Grow and Earn Respect) award criteria acknowledges children and youth who have shown commitment to a cause or taken action(s) that has improved their lives and/or the lives of others around them. The award is granted from the Commission on the Status of Children and Youth, whose purpose is to promote connections in our community which empower, enhance and nurture children and youth.

Nominations were accepted from educators, neighbors, friends, relatives, and clergy of students who live or attend school within the Monroe County Community School Corporation area. Youth nominees fell into four school-age grade groups: K-3, 4-6, 7-8, and 9-12. Ultimately, seven young nominees won S.W.A.G.G.E.R Awards. They were selected from among 17 impressive young people, all of whom were recognized for their meaningful and generous acts. In the 9th-12th grade category, awards went to four African American ladies, Sydney Crossley, Sabrah Wagner, Jael Davis and Saphyne Franklin for exceptional leadership in social justice activism by advocating for a racial discrimination justice policy to be included in the MCCSC student handbook.

This evening three of those ladies, Sydney Crossley and Jael Davis, Sabrah Wagner, along with Mr. Isadore James “Jimmie” Torry, Co- Chair of the City of Bloomington Commission on the Status of Children and Youth, join Liz Mitchell and Clarence Boone.

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This is a rebroadcast from October 3, 2022:

Today’s host of Bring It On!, William Hosea speaks with IU Law School Constitutional Professor Joseph Hoffman about the state of U.S. democracy after the Trump presidency. In summary, today’s show is about a number of legal topics and issues related to former President Donald Trump and his supporters. Several of these involve his perceived and/or alleged attempts to “Make America Great Again” by undermining voting rights, while trying to invoke military actions to usurp the constitution and the recent Presidential election.

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This is a rebroadcast from October 10, 2022:

On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell speak with Rashad Nelms, who has have served in leadership and management positions for the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) for 18 years and in more than 21 countries. As an International Executive, Rashad helps clients lead and manage more confidently, operate more efficiently and effectively, increase cost-savings, and strengthen staff recruitment and retention. As a strategic advisor in the UN, he has worked with Fortune 500 senior executives, celebrities, and international philanthropic institutions as part of his work.

He is also a frequent lecturer and guest speaker at higher education institutions across the country on emotional intelligence, leadership, collaboration, management, and more. He is currently on sabbatical from the World Food Program and serve as an Executive-In-Residence with IU. In this role, he helps diversify the university’s faculty and staff hiring, and helps prepare graduate and undergraduate students for the global workforce. He joins the show today to discuss his exciting involvement with the United Nations.

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On today’s edition of Bring It On!, the hosts are Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell. They spend the hour with Bill Breeden, Minister Emeritus from the Unitarian Universalist Church of Bloomington, Indiana. He was a minister to Corey Johnson and attended his execution. On January 14, 2021, the federal government executed Corey Johnson, a death-row prisoner who likely was intellectually disabled, without affording him judicial review to determine his eligibility for the death penalty. He was the fifth federal prisoner executed in the transition period between Donald Trump’s defeat in the November  2020 presidential election and the scheduled inauguration of Joseph R. Biden on January 20, 2021.

Bill shared that Corey Johnson was one of the most amazing human beings he had ever known. He had been in solitary confinement for 29 years without a visitor, and was unable to read or write, but was a very peaceful, caring man. In those 29    years of solitary he was never written up by a guard for any infraction.

Bill, a long-time peace activist and prison minister is a past recipient of the Bloomington, Indiana Human Rights Award. This is remarkable considering Bill’s past. Bill professes to have overcome hatred and extreme prejudice to become the humble and loving individual he is today. In reflecting on his life and transformation, he considers himself to be “the luckiest guy on the planet, and he’d be willing to debate that with anyone.”

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Tonight, Bring It On! hosts, William Hosea and Clarence Boone, discuss the outcomes of the mid-term elections, locally and nationally. Their guests are the newly re-elected Monroe County Clerk Nicole Browne, the newly re-elected Monroe County Councilwoman Jennifer Crossley, and new elected Monroe County Sheriff Ruben Marté.

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On today’s edition of Bring It On!, the hosts, William Hosea, Liz Mitchell, and Clarence Boone, spend the hour with Dr. Charlie Nelms to talk about why it is important to vote in the 2022 Mid-Term Elections tomorrow, November 8, 2022.

Dr. Charlie Nelms is a veteran higher education administrator and chancellor emeritus of North Carolina Central University. He makes the case to vote in his most recent monthly column for Diverse Issues in Higher Education, entitled “The Five Reasons Why I Vote, and You Should Too!”, saying:

Every year we are told by leaders from both major U. S. political parties and candidates too, that that year’s election is the most consequential ever. In the past, I have considered such assertions to be mostly hyperbole, designed to incite people to contribute financially and to vote for candidates. However, in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election and the violent insurrection by election deniers on January 6, 2021, I have concluded that the 2022- midterm elections may indeed be the most consequential over the past fifty years.

In this broadcast, Dr. Nelms joins the program to elaborate more on the points he makes in his October 2022 column.

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On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell speak the playwrights and directors of the 2022 OnyxFest, who are:

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