Bring It On! – WFHB

Today’s program is a rebroadcast from July 25, 2022.

In today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell spend the hour with Bryant Scott, the CEO of Tyscot Records, and John P. Kellogg, who is a Berklee Online music business instructor and the former assistant chair of the Music Business/Management Department at Berklee. Bryant and John are here to educate us on the ins and outs of the Gospel music industry.

John P. Kellogg is also a practicing entertainment lawyer who specializes in the music industry. He has represented clients such as LSG, the O’Jays, G. Dep, and the late Gerald Levert. Bryant Scott heads Tyscot Records, and Tyscot Films, the oldest African-American-owned international gospel record company in the world, Bryant has created opportunities, influenced lives, and launched careers.  He is credited for signing and developing major artists including John P. Kee, The GMWA Women Of Worship, Dr. Bobby Jones, Deitrick Haddon, The Rance Allen Group, The Anointed Pace Sisters, Carman, Bishop Noel Jones, Darwin Hobbs, Shirley Murdock, Ann Nesby, and most recently Anthony Brown and Casey J.

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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 reflec

ting 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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Today’s host of Bring It On! is Clarence Boone. He is joined by Danielle Bruce, Gladys DeVance, and, frequent Bring It On! contributor, Liz Mitchell, to discuss their recent productions focused on the experiences and accomplishments of Black Women.

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In today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell spend the hour with Bryant Scott, the CEO of Tyscot Records, and John P. Kellogg, who is a Berklee Online music business instructor and the former assistant chair of the Music Business/Management Department at Berklee. Bryant and John are here to educate us on the ins and outs of the Gospel music industry.

John P. Kellogg is also a practicing entertainment lawyer who specializes in the music industry. He has represented clients such as LSG, the O’Jays, G. Dep, and the late Gerald Levert. Bryant Scott heads Tyscot Records, and Tyscot Films, the oldest African-American-owned international gospel record company in the world, Bryant has created opportunities, influenced lives, and launched careers.  He is credited for signing and developing major artists including John P. Kee, The GMWA Women Of Worship, Dr. Bobby Jones, Deitrick Haddon, The Rance Allen Group, The Anointed Pace Sisters, Carman, Bishop Noel Jones, Darwin Hobbs, Shirley Murdock, Ann Nesby, and most recently Anthony Brown and Casey J.

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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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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. Leon has conducted extensive research on Racialized Violence. Several weeks ago, he joined us to discuss lynching in Indiana. He joins us now to discuss his research on national police-action shooting deaths of Blacks.

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In today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell spend the hour with Leon Bates, who is 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.

Officially, Indiana has 21 cases of reported lynching, and one lynching survivor, James Cameron, Jr. In the 1940s he would late found 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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Today’s hosts of Bring It On!, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell, celebrate Juneteenth by welcoming Vernon Williams, Rain Williams, and Ms. Latrice. They are here to discuss their play, “Democracy Hypocrisy: The Red, White, and Blues of Freedom”.

The production comes between two iconic national celebrations of “liberation”, Juneteenth and Independence Day, offering an exhilarating and authentic portrayal of the Africana experience through spoken word, dance, music, song, and drama. The play is directed by Ms. Latrice.

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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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In today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell are delighted to speak with members of the MCCSC administration about a number of topics. Namely, a wrap-up and closure on the 21-22 academic year; upcoming graduations; and a discussion on a November 8th referendum ballot question that will request an 18.5 cent operating levy aimed at 1) increasing teacher and certified teacher salaries, and 2) funding for special programs like Special Education, STEM and Performing Arts. Joining us for this discussion are MCCSC Superintendent Dr. Jeff Hauswald, Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum & Instruction, Markay Winston, and Assistant Director of Business Operations, Adam Terwilliger.

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