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Today’s edition of Bring It On! focuses on Black Philanthropy Month (BPM). BPM is held every August and was created in August 2011 by Dr. Jackie Bouvier Copeland and the Pan-African Women’s Philanthropy Network (PAWPNet) as an annual, global celebration of African-descent giving. Hosts Clarence Boone and Roberta Radovich discuss Black Philanthropy Month with Ms. Valaidia Fulwood, Professor Tyrone McKinley Freeman, and Mr. Tom Harmon.

Ms. Valaidia Fullwood is a nationally known writer, public speaker and project strategist. She is author of “Giving Back: A Tribute to Generations of African American Philanthropists,” an award-winning book chronicling tradition of giving in Black communities. In 2014, she was selected Lake Distinguished Visitor by Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.

Professor Tyrone McKinley Freeman is Assistant Professor of Philanthropic Studies and the Director of Undergraduate Programs at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. His research focuses on African American philanthropy in historical and contemporary contexts, the history of philanthropy, and philanthropy and fundraising in higher education.

Mr. Tom Harmon is the CEO of Harmon Group Companies, which includes Harmon Construction, Harmon Steel, and Taylor Bros Construction Inc.  He is one of the founding members of the  African American Fund of Bartholomew County (AAFBC). Found in 2012, AAFBC is a part of the Heritage Fund, which is the Community Foundation of Bartholomew County. The AAFBC distributes grants of about $15,000 annually and sponsors discussions in five focus areas: health awareness, education, arts and culture, economic/career development, and leadership development, which targets the African American Community.

BPM is held every August and was created in August 2011 by Dr. Jackie Bouvier Copeland and the Pan-African Women’s Philanthropy Network (PAWPNet) as an annual, global celebration of African-descent giving. In 2011 the United Nations recognized BPM as part of its declaration for the International Year for People of African Descent and encouraged all Black communities and their allies to take August and beyond to promote the power of giving to transform lives.

More information about Black Philanthropy Month can be found at http://www.blackphilanthropymonth.com.

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The Bring It On! crew has prepared a special broadcast of relevant and memorable interviews from their archives.

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The focus of today’s show is how African-American ex-slaves were pioneers and part of the U.S.’s explansion into the Western Frontier, with a focus on free-black settlers in Indiana and other parts of the Mid-West. Hosts Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell speak with La Vella Hyter, President of the Board of Directors for the Indiana Roberts Settlement*, and Stanley Madison, Chairman of the Board for Lyles Station Historic Preservation Corporation**.

They are also joined by Dr. Anna-Lisa Cox, author, award-winning historian, and Non-Resident Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Dr. Cox’s newest book is The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America’s Forgotten Pioneers and the Struggle for Equality, which chronicles the long-hidden stories of America’s black pioneers of the Western frontier.

*The Roberts Settlement was an early rural settlement in Jackson Township, Hamilton County, Indiana, dating from the 1830s whose first settlers were free people of color, most of whom migrated from the Beech Settlement, located 40 miles (64 km) southeast in rural Rush County, Indiana.

**The Lyles Station Historic Preservation Corporation (LSHPC), a not-for-profit (501(C)3) organization, was established in August 1998 for the specific and primary purpose of preservation of the oral, written and physical history, artifacts, building and land which identifies and/or describes events, activities and life experiences of the people and the community known as Lyles Station in Gibson County, Indiana. Lyles Station is an early black settlement started in the 1830s.

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Hosts Clarence Boone and Roberta Radovich spend the hour speaking with Dr. Terri Francis, director of the IU Black Film Center/Archive and Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies. She is joined by IU Professor of French and Italian Dr. Vincent Bouchard. They are here today to to discuss Bouchard’s symposium on Paulin Soumanou Vieyra (1925-1987), a Senegalese filmmaker and historian, who is one of the most important figures in all of African cinema.

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