This is a rebroadcast from May 1, 2017:

Bring It On! continues our highlight of Dr. Khalil Muhammad, a professor at Harvard University.

Dr. Muhammad was previously a Bring It On! contributor while a professor at Indiana University.  Dr. Renford Reese and he spoke on negative black male stereotypes and how black men themselves may be perpetuating such negative views. Professor Reese examines how young African-American males have unwittingly accepted a false model of black masculinity. Dr. Muhammad offers his insights on the topic.

Please join hosts Jim Sims and Sherhara Williams in this back-to-back archived discussion from November 2006.

Today’s edition of Bring It On! has its host and executive producer, Clarence Boone, spending the hour with his co-anchor and Dark Past, Bright Future segment producer Elizabeth Mitchell. For nearly 45 years, Liz has been documenting African American history and correcting a revisionist version. She describes her job as bringing to light, “All those stories that tell us who we are—stories of exploration, freedom, slavery, and, of course, violence.”  According to her, she is transmitting a type of African-American history because “We hold on to those one-sided stories and pass them on from one generation to the next.”

Liz Mitchell wears many hats. Along with being an historian, she is a thespian and playwright with Resilience Productions. She collects black historical artifacts, primarily Jim Crow related, and her search for these things complements her extensive journeys around the world. Finally, amongst her numerous civic awards and recognitions, Liz was recently recognized by the Monroe County Branch of the NAACP as the 2024 President’s Award recipient. Given this, Liz welcome to Bring It On!

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This program is a rebroadcast from October 17, 2022:

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 black men in the United States.

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This show was initially aired on January 30, 2023.

On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and William Hosea welcome Robin Winston, an accomplished business leader and a skilled political strategist, to talk about Black Americans and the Republican Party.

Five Facts about Black Republicans include:

Today, only about one-in-ten Black adults identify with or lean toward the Republican Party. Moreover, in a Pew Research Center survey in October, only 4% of Black registered voters said they would vote for the Republican candidate for the U.S. House seat in their district, while 69% said they would back the Democratic candidate.

Robin Winston joins the program to provide his astute observations on Black Americans’ relationship with the Republican Party. Along with his views on the political horizon in Indiana, he will field some questions pertaining to the circus atmosphere in the US House of Representatives, Donald Trump’s last stand in Georgia and up and coming Democratic talent like Rep. Hakeem Jeffries.

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On today’s edition of Bring It On!, host Clarence Boone and co-host Dr. Gloria Howell spend the hour with Dr. Kevin Brown for a post-election analysis of Donald Trump’s victory.

The Associated Press has summed up the realities of last Tuesday’s Presidential General Election outcome. Trump gained a larger share of Black and Latino voters than he did in 2020 when he lost to Joe Biden. Most notably among men under age 45, according to AP VoteCast, a nationwide survey of more than 120,000 voters, Trump won a larger share of their vote than in 202. Despite  Democrat Kamala Harris winning the majority of Black and Latino voters, it was not enough to give the vice president the White House.

Voters overall cited the economy and jobs as the most important issue the country faced. That was true for Black and Hispanic voters as well. About 3 in 10 Black men under age 45 went for Trump, roughly double the share he got in 2020. Young Latinos, particularly young Latino men, also were more open to Trump than in 2020. Roughly half of young Latino men voted for Harris, compared with about 6 in 10 who went

Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen won reelection to a U.S. Senate seat in Nevada, preventing the Republicans from growing their 53-seat majority with one Senate race, Arizona, left to call. Republican leaders are projecting confidence that they will keep control of the U.S. House as more races were decided in their favor Friday, while Democrats insist, they still see a path toward the majority and sought assurances that every vote will be counted. Time will tell whether Donald Trump can salvage his legacy in a second term.

Dr. Kevin Brown, who joins us today, was on the faculty of Indiana University Maurer School of Law from January 1987 until he took emeritus status in June 2022. On July 1, 2022, he joined the University of South Carolina School of Law as the Mitchell Willoughby Distinguished Professor. Brown graduated from Yale Law School in 1982.

In Sept 2023, Professor Brown was invited to lecture at the IU Maurer School of Law School on the long-term consequences of the end of affirmative action for the Black community. He has labored over this summer to produce a scholarly article on the topic. Also, since the results of last Tuesday’s General Election, he has been thinking about what the immediate and long-term future holds for the Black community. He contends that the election will accelerate the negative trends he already sees. He joins us to further elaborate on his research and his current sentiments.

Dr. Gloria Howell joined us today as a guest co-anchor. She is the director of the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center at Indiana University Bloomington. She is also the faculty coordinator for a first-year experience and introductory research course for freshman Hudson and Holland Scholars. Her research focuses on Black students broadly, specifically identity development and affirmation, culturally relevant pedagogy and curricular practices, and the effects of student activism on institutional change.

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On tonight’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell focus on the concerns of the black Trump and Kamala Harris supporters in tomorrow’s U.S. national presidential election. Based on a September NAACP poll, Reuters News reported that over one-quarter of younger Black men would support Republican candidate Donald Trump in this year’s U.S. presidential election. 82% of Black men under 50 listed economic issues among the most important issues facing the country today, compared with 75% of Black women of all ages.

Black voters have long been the most loyal Democratic constituency. Yet, during the Democratic President Joe Biden’s term, some younger Black voters and Black men of all ages have lost faith in the Democratic Party. Black voters played a large role in sending Biden to the White House in 2020. Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris hopes to secure their support to win tomorrow’s November 5th presidential election. In contrast, 67% percent of Black women said they supported Harris, while 8% said they supported Trump. Top issues for Black voters are the economy, crime, and public safety, the survey found; with the cost of food and groceries, housing, and utilities being the biggest economic stressors. According to the NAACP  survey, voter messaging emphasizing rights “being under attack” has the most significant chance to motivate undecided voters and younger Black men.

Tonight, we ae airing two separate interviews on this topic. The first interview is with Jordan Johnson, a black male Trump supporter.  The second interview is with Jennifer Crossley, a black-female Harris supporter.

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This is a rebroadcast that originally aired on February 1, 2021:

Today’s edition of Bring It On! is a broadcast of a show recorded immediately after the siege of the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, which led to the deaths of five people, including the murder of Capitol Police Officer Brian D. Sicknick. Hosts, Clarence Boone and William Hosea spend the hour with long-time Bring It On! contributor Eric Love, the Director of Staff Diversity and Inclusion for the University of Notre Dame, and Elizabeth (Liz) Watson, a labor attorney and the current executive director of the Progressive Caucus Action Fund, to examine the impact of the Capitol Hill siege on society, and its effects on the African-American community, in particular.

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On today’s edition of Bring It On!, Clarence Boone spends the hour with Dr. Charlie Nelms and Dr. Audrey McCluskey. They have all just attended, a riveting performance by the Resilience Productions team entitled From Truth to  Justice: The Price We Paid for the Ballot. This original play tells the story of the contentious relationship between the Black and White suffrage movements. It provides insight into the dilemma created by the proposed ratification of the 15th Amendment. It exposes the attitudes and behaviors of two groups fighting for a common good but whose worldviews differ significantly. Sojourner Truth, Francis Harper, Susan B Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mary Church Terrell, and Daisy Lampkins weave the story of the tumultuous journey to access the ballot. The women of Resilience Productions are honored to be included in the Off-Night Play Reading Festival, featuring plays written by women. Resilience Indiana’s Untold Stories is the opening play, on Sunday, October 27th at 2:00 p.m. matinee at the Constellation Playhouse (located at 107 W. 9th here in Bloomington).

Dr. Nelms has had a storied career in academics and advocacy, having served in numerous leadership positions in the IU system, Dr. Nelms served as chancellor of both the University of Michigan, Flint, and North Carolina Central University (NCCU).

Dr. Audrey McCluskey is a renowned writer and professor emeriti at Indiana University. While in academia at IU, she was an African-American and African Diaspora Studies professor and a former director of IU’s Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center. She was also the director of the Black Film Archive. As a prolific writer, she wrote the book Forgotten Sisterhood about four influential female African American educators in the South.

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On today’s edition of Bring It On!, host Clarence Boone and co-host Liz Mitchell spend the hour with Danielle Bruce. Liz Mitchell and Danielle Bruce together with writer Glayds DeVane have created two new Resilence Productions: 1) “From Truth to Justice: The Price We Paid for the Ballot”, and 2) “A Selection of Scenes from Resilience: Indiana’s Untold Stories”.

The Resilience Productions team is excited about their upcoming production of From Truth to Justice: The Price We Paid for the Ballot. This original play tells the story of the contentious relationship between the Black and White suffrage movements. It provides insight into the dilemma created by the proposed ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment. It exposes the attitudes and behaviors of two groups fighting for a common good but whose worldviews differ significantly. Sojourner Truth, Francis Harper, Susan B Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mary Church Terrell, and Daisy Lampkins weave the story of the tumultuous journey to access the ballot.

In addition, the women of Resilience Productions are honored to be included in the Off-Night Play Reading Festival, featuring plays written by women. Resilience Indiana’s Untold Stories is the opening play, the October 27, 2:00 p.m. matinee feature.

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On today’s edition of Bring It On!, host Clarence Boone and co-host Liz Micthell spend the hour with Sheriff Ruben Marté.  He joins us this evening to discuss progress toward achieving administrative goals amidst the need for jail renovations and the possible construction of a new facility.

Marté was elected Sheriff of Monroe County in November of 2022. Previously, he had worked for 31 years for the Indiana State Police. He was a captain in the office of the superintendent. Marté was appointed as the ISP’s first equity and inclusion officer during that tenure. Sheriff Marté campaigned on a platform with four elements:

1) increasing public safety;

Upon being sworn in, Sheriff Marté shed light upon poor structural conditions and overcrowding at the Monroe County Jail and has routinely advocated for improvements. In January of this year, The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office stated current county jail conditions have improved amid efforts to establish a new facility. Sheriff Ruben Marté and his staff presented evidence of improvements at a January county council meeting. One option currently being explored is purchasing land to construct a new jail.

In August, Dave Askins of the B-Square Bulletin reported that “it is now roughly three years since retained county consultants delivered reports, one of which concluded that Monroe County’s jail is ‘failing’ and is not able to provide constitutional levels of care. The jail currently operates under a 2009 settlement agreement with the ACLU, which filed a lawsuit over crowded conditions at the jail. The settlement agreement has been extended several times.”

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