Bring It On! – WFHB

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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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 a black men in the United States.

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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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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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Today’s program continues the discussion started last week about the Montford Point Marine Story. Today’s host, William Hosea speaks with Mallorie Berger, Reginald Moore, and Joe Geeter, public relations specialists for the National Montford Point Marine Association.

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Today’s host of Bring It On!, William Hosea speaks with Mallorie Berger, Reginald Moore, and Joe Geeter, public relations specialists for the National Montford Point Marine Association. They are here to discuss the Montford Point Marine Story and the upcoming ABC documentary on the subject.

History has largely overlooked the trailblazers who were the first Black men to serve in the U.S. Marine Corps, the Montford Point Marines, named after the segregated section of Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina, where they trained. On 26 August, on the 80th anniversary of when the first Montford Point Marines set foot on the Marine base, ABC Owned Television Stations debuted the trailer of Our America: Mission Montford Point. The documentary special will debut on ABC Owned Stations 24/7 streaming platforms, 32 connected TV apps across streaming platforms Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Android TV, Roku and Hulu beginning September 20.

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On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell talk about the notable African Americans of Monroe County. This is a special fund-drive edition of the program.

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Today’s program is rebroadcast from March 21, 2022:

On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell spend the hour with Dr. Gladys DeVane. She is an author, thespian, playwright, narrator, and co-founder of Resilience Productions.

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On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell spend the hour with Cyrilla Helm, the Executive Director, and Nancy Goswami, the Board Director of the Foundation of Monroe County Community Schools (FMCCS), tohelp us better understand the Foundation’s mission and activities.

The the Foundation of Monroe County Community Schools was founded in 1973. The foundation was organized to provide a Margin of Excellence to the community and its schools that tax funding did not provide.

The Foundation has enriched educational opportunities for students of the MCCSC. It has funded countless books for school libraries and classrooms, STEM equipment, field trips, the renovation of Honey Creek, professional development for teachers, school transformation projects, the STEM to THEM mobile lab, student scholarships, and more!

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Today’s show is a rebroadcast from December 27, 2021:

On today’s Bring It On!, hosts, William Hosea and Gloria Howell spend the hour with Drs. Tennisha Riley, James Brooks, and Amrita Myers to help us better understand the mental state of college students in general and how they appear to be coping during a pandemic era.

Dr. Tennisha Riley is an assistant professor in the Counseling & Educational Psychology department with an appointment in Human Development.  Her extensive research seeks to expand our foundational knowledge of adolescent emotional development and situate that knowledge within a sociocultural context for Black youth. She received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University and subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Indiana University’s Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society.

Dr. James Brooks, assistant professor of Counseling Psychology at Indiana University. Dr. Brooks has expertise in relationship counseling and the impact of race & racism on multiracial families and interracial relationships. As a clinical psychologist, Dr. Brooks has worked with students on campus (here at IU and at Tennessee State University) around their mental health needs and has worked with students who are counselors in training to help them.

Dr. Amrita Myers is a renowned Ruth N. Halls associate professor of  History and Gender Studies at Indiana University and a consulting editor of the Journal of American History. Amrita is a historian of the black female experience in the United States, and her research interests revolve around issues of race, gender, freedom, and power and the ways in which these constructs intersect with one another in the lives of black women in the Old South. She is also the author of Forging Freedom: Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston, 1790- 1860.

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