Bring It On! – WFHB

On tonight’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts Clarence Boone and William Hosea examine the City of Bloomington’s current efforts to address homelessness and how to handle the homeless people residing in some of the city’s parks with a panel of community advocates for the homeless.

While some criticize some of the tactics employed by the City of Bloomington as inhumane, others argue that the government is taking reasonable steps to address the social and safety concerns involved with having homeless people in the city parks. In recent weeks, this issue has become particularly contentious because of action to remove the homeless from city parks.

To explore this sensitive issue hosts Clarence Boone and William Hosea welcome Harry Collins and Marc Teller from the Bloomington Homeless Coalition; Abby Ang, a community organizer from the Monroe County Area Mutual Aid; and Beverly Calender-Anderson,  the Director of the Community and Family Resources Department for the City of Bloomington.

CREDITS: The hosts of today’s show are Clarence Boone and William Hosea.

Hosts Clarence Boone and William Hosea spend the hour with Karen Freeman-Wilson, the two-term mayor of Gary, IN from 2012 to 2019 and the Attorney General of Indiana from 2000 to 2001. Fr. Mayor Freeman-Wilson was born and raised in Gary. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.

Freeman-Wilson has had a long and distinguished career of public service in Indiana. She served as a judge in the Gary City Court from 1995 to 2000 and it was there that she founded the first drug treatment court in the State of Indiana.  In 2000 she was appointed Indiana’s Attorney General by Governor Frank O’Bannon to serve the remaining eleven months of the term of Jeff Modisett.

After failing to win re-election in 2001, Freeman-Wilson went back to her work of creating greater access to drug rehabilitation services and more effective treatments. In 2001 she became the CEO of the nonprofit National Association of Drug Court Professional. In 2007, she also became a member of the board of directors for Hythian, Inc., the manufacturer of Prometa, a treatment for methamphetamine addiction, which she helped to have used in the Gary drug court on a trial basis.

Before becoming the first female mayor of Gary, Indiana, she also was the Executive Director of the National Drug Court Institute and the Director of the Indiana Civil Rights Commission. After losing her bid for a third term as the Mayor of Gary, IN, she became the CEO of the Chicago Urban League in 2019.

CREDITS: The hosts of today’s show are Clarence Boone and William Hosea, with additional hosting help from Vernon Williams.

Today’s edition of Bring It On! is divided into two parts.

In Part 1, hosts Clarence Boone and William Hosea share their hosting duties with Vernon William, who is a playwright and organizer of the Onyx Fest, a festival for Black playwrights. They welcome Professor Ansley Valentine, Associate Professor of Theater, Drama, and Contemporary Dance at Indiana University, to discuss the state of black theatre and the plays that both Vernon William and Professor Valentine have recently produced.

Professor Valentine has recently produced a one-woman play, starring Elizabeth Stanley, called Big Breath, at the Alley Theatre in Buffalo, which centers on the social and psychological challenges of singleton life in the age of Covid-19. The entirety of the play’s run occurred on the internet. Right now he is also doing pre-production work on his next play, Mother See.

Vernon Willaims has recently premiered Being Black at 2020’s Onyx Fest in Indianapolis this October, which is a short play that presents a series of vignettes on what it is like to be black in America today, especially in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. Williams also wrote True Colors, a play the explores issues of race through reactions to the re-election of President Barack Obama.

In Part Two, hosts Clarence Boone and William Hosea explore with Dr. Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, Professor of Law at IU,  issues of race and the anticipated challenges ahead in post-Trump America with former Vice-President Joseph Biden now as its U.S. President-Elect. Dr. Fuentes-Rohwer teaches and writes about civil rights with a focus on Constitutional Law, Reconstruction, and Voting Rights.

CREDITS: The hosts of today’s show are Clarence Boone and William Hosea, with additional hosting help from Vernon Williams.

At 11:24 AM, Saturday, November 7, 2020, four days after the election, the state of Pennsylvania announced that Joe Biden had won the majority vote, effectively ending the presidential race and making him the new president-elect. Despite widespread recognition of his victory, Donald J. Trump has steadfastly refused to concede the election.

More importantly, Trump’s refusal to concede negatively impacts Biden’s ability to prepare for his transition into the Oval Office during one of the most precarious times in American history. The country remains bitterly divided. The United States continues to set new daily records for the number of new cases of coronavirus infections and deaths, and there are increasing fears that the country is facing the worst economic crisis since the great depression.

Bring It On!’s host William Hosea assesses the state of the nation post-election with four prominent figures in Bloomington’s civic circles:

CREDITS: The host of today’s show is William Hosea.

On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Cornelius Wright and William Hosea, speak with the incumbent Monroe County Community School Corporation (MCCSC) board candidate from District 2, Sue Wanzer in the first half of the show. The second half of the program is spent with Dana Black, the Deputy Chair of Engagement for the Indiana Democratic Party, to discuss what is happening with candidate races for the state legislature.

Sue Wanzer currently serves as the MCCSC board’s vice president. She was first elected to the school board in 2001. She also is a mayor-appointed commissioner on the Bloomington Housing Authority Board. Previously she was the deputy city clerk for the City of Bloomington, the associate director of residence life at Indiana University, and the project manager at Strategic Development Group.

Dana Black is a lifelong resident of Indianapolis and has been the Deputy Chair for Engagement of the Indiana Democrat Party since 2017. In addition, Dana Black is the President of the Indiana Stonewall Democrats President, a Lawrence Township Democrat Club and NACCP Member, and a Committeeman for the Lawrence Township Precinct. She is also the host of the radio show Turn Left and Co-Host of the podcast Policy with a Purpose. She is a prominent political voice in Indiana that aims to disseminate the legislative information to Hoosiers so they can better choose who should represent them.

For any questions about how to vote, please either contact Election Protection (866-OUR-VOTE) or Indiana Voters – IN.gov.

The Indiana Democratic Party will also be hosting a Facebook watch party on Election Night, Tuesday, November 3, 2020, hosted by Chairman John Zody & IDP Deputy Chair of Engagement, Indiana’s Own Dana Black, @ http://facebook.com/indems.

CREDITS: The hosts of today’s show are Cornelius Wright and William Hosea.