Bring It On! – WFHB

Today we honor Martin Luther King Jr. with a special edition of Bring It On!

Tonight at 7 PM, the City of Bloomington is honoring the MLK holiday with a celebration at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. We are recognizing the 2020 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day with two riveting interviews. We’ll begin our show with a powerful discussion with Ms. Brittany Packnett, the keynote speaker for Bloomington’s 2016 Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration. In the second half of the hour, hosts Clarence Boone and William Hosea interview tonight’s keynote speaker Dr. Melina Abdullah, Professor and Chair of Pan-African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, who will speak on “Courage and Beautiful Struggle: Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with Our Work”.

Ms. Brittany Packnett is an activist and co-founder of Campaign Zero. She was also a member of President Barack Obama’s 21st Century Policing Task Force, and she was executive director for Teach for America in St. Louis. Her 2019 TED Talk on confidence has garnered nearly 3 million views worldwide. Brittany is the author of the forthcoming book, We Are Like Those Who Dream, with One World.

Dr. Melina Abdullah is a recognized expert on race, gender, class, and social movements. She was among the original group of organizers that convened to form Black Lives Matter and continues to serve as a Los Angeles chapter leader. She is a co-host and co-producer of the weekly radio program “Beautiful Struggle” which airs on KPFK, part of the Pacifica radio network, and hosts and produces the weekly internet radio show “Move the Crowd,” which airs on Radio Justice (radiojustice.org).

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In today’s edition of Bring It On! hosts Roberta Radovich and Nordia McNish speak with Katherine Lampke, marketing assistant and social media manager with the Hannah Center, and Shelonda Bledsoe, a registered doula, who works closely with the Hannah Center. They are here to talk about their wide-array of services along with ways of “Eliminating Racial and Socio-Economic Disparities in Maternal and Infant Mortality” (see Center for American Progress).  The Bloomington Hannah Center, a nonprofit ministry, serves women, their partners, and families, who are seeking help in making decisions about their pregnancies and related concerns.

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Welcome to Bring It On!’s first broadcast of the year.

Today, hosts Clarence Boone and William Hosea speak with Attorney Ericka Oliphant, who is currently the Monroe County  Prosecutor. Previously she had worked as a Monroe deputy prosecutor for over eight years. She serves as an advocate for the citizens of Monroe County and her mission is to represent the people of Monroe County while seeking justice, promoting greater public safety, and assisting victims of crimes.

She has been a proud resident of Bloomington, IN for over two decades, since arriving to the area to attend Indiana University as an undergraduate and then its law school. She oversees eighteen deputy attorneys and an office that totals a staff of 56, including those that oversee child support collection.

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Host Clarence Boone spends the hour with William Morris, the host of WFIU’s

Mr. Morris is a full-time staff attorney at Indiana Legal Services. He previously

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Today’s broadcast originally aired on December 17, 2018. This broadcast looks back at the status of Latinx immigrants and President Donald Trump’s threats of “shutting down the government” due to his defiant stance over the construction of the border wall. Nearly a year later, this rebroadcast reminds us of what has and has not changed regarding this issue.

Hosts Jim and Amrita Myers, Ph.D., are joined by Texas A&M Associate Professor of History Felipe Hinojosa, who speaks about the border and Latinx issues. This broadcast is dedicated to the plight and common misunderstandings of undocumented Latinx immigrants.

Jim Sims is the at-large representative on the Bloomington, IN city council.

Amrita Myers, Ph.D., is the Ruth N. Halls Associate Professor in the  Departments of History and Gender Studies at Indiana University – Bloomington.

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