Episode 16: The GOAT of African American Coaches 

On the one-year anniversary of the passing of legendary Georgetown University basketball coach, John Thompson, Dewhitt sits down with one of coach Thompson’s former players, Billy Martin. Bingham and Martin talk about the following subjects:

·  Legendary coach John Thompson
·  Martin’s college and pro basketball careers
·  Interracial marriage
· 14th Amendment
· Voting rights
· Police reform
· Common sense gun laws
· Black Lives Matter
· White Supremacy
· Politics
· Bingham’s top 5 AA coaches of all time

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Bingham interviews two of his 1980 Festus High School classmates, Mrs. Julie Holland, and Mr. Jim Propst. Together they examine how their hometown Festus was and is a model for race relations. Festus and Crystal City, “twin cities,” have a combined population of about 16,000 people, is 95% white, 3% black and race relations is like none other. Holland and Propst talk about their experiences with people of color growing up in Festus. The three classmates discuss the significance of the 1943 Emma Jane Lee v. The Festus School Board federal pay equalization case. Emma Jane Lee was one of the five Douglass teachers represented by the great David Grant and the first African American Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall. Bingham, Holland and Propst also talk about the Douglass and Festus High School immediate integration in 1955 led by the white superintendent of schools, Ralph B. Tynes. Other than the Little Rock Nine in 1957, it was well into the 1960s before schools in the south experienced integration. In addition, 65 years later schools are still segregated in the south and black children are paying the price. Festus implemented the Nike slogan “Just Do It” before it was even thought about. Bingham’s grandfather was one of the first five Douglass graduates in 1940. These stories and a lot more are written about in his most recent book, The Douglass Connection.  

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Dewhitt sits down with retired and former Chief Inspector of the Shelby County Sheriff's Department, Larry Hill. Bingham and Hill attended Lincoln University at the same time, majored in criminal justice and pledge the same fraternity together. Hill was raised in St. Louis, Missouri and attended Soldan International Studies High School before attending LU in Jefferson City, Missouri. This year, LU became the first HBCU to create its own police academy.   https://www.lincolnu.edu/web/police-department/lu-police-academy Hill earned a Bachelors of Science Degree in Criminal Justice from LU, a Masters of Science Degree in Criminal Justice from Bethel University located in McKenzie, Tennessee and a second Masters Degree in Christian Studies from Union University located in Jackson, Tennessee. He currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Criminal Justice at Miami Dade College in Miami, Florida. Considered an expert in policing, Larry has thirty plus years of experience in law enforcement. During his tenure, he held every position, from the cop on the street to head training officer at the academy. Bingham and Hill discuss social justice, criminal justice, how the George Floyd situation should have been handled, Black Lives Matter, White Supremacy, police policy, and the one thing Hill would like to see the Biden Administration accomplish. 

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Episode 13: Benefits of Cashless Bail
Dewhitt interviews one of his probation colleagues, Del Saam. Del is the Veterans Court Mentor Coordinator for the specialized and problem solving Veteran's Court. He has 30 years of United States Army service, a Master's Degree in Business Administration from Northern Illinois University and is well suited for Veterans Treatment Court. Veteran Specialty Court is designed for current and former military members who have been convicted of a non-violent offense and who have been diagnosed with a serious mental illness or need for substance abuse treatment. The goal of Veterans Treatment Court is to decrease the number of recurrent arrests that result from mental health and substance abuse issues by sending Veteran offenders to Veterans Affairs for their mental health and substance abuse issues rather than jail. Veterans treatment Court participants must make regular court appearances before the designated Veterans Court judge, submit to frequent and random drug/alcohol testing, substance abuse counseling, and a system of behavior modification based on incentives and sanctions. Saam sits down with Bingham to discuss the new Illinois law related to the benefits of cashless bail and a few other criminal justice related issues.

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Episode 12: Women’s Rights and Nursing
Dewhitt sits down with a woman he adores, Dr. Catherine Miller. She has been a nursing professional since 1970, over 50 years. Most of those years were as a nursing educator. Her career spanned across four states and eight different nursing programs. She’s the former Heartland Community College Dean of Health and Human Services, former Dean of Nursing at Illinois State University, the kindest nursing educator on this side of glory, and Bingham’s former boss.  Dr. Miller discusses her pathway to becoming a registered nurse and nursing educator, the importance of women’s rights, how equality breeds confidence, productivity, and makes people more sociable, and what needs to be changed to make America great. 

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Episode 11: Say It Loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud
Bingham conducts his first in studio interview with two of his former Heartland Community College students who he developed a relationship with through the Male Empowerment Network club for which he was faculty advisor. Kendall “KJ” Johnson and Terrence “TB” Brown, two smart, smooth, and intelligent young men. KB and TB recent college graduates, talk about what they are proud of, their pathway to becoming a college graduate, constitutional rights, black history, how racial harmony can be achieved, white supremacy, black lives matter and what they’d like to see the Biden administration accomplish. 

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Episode 10: Public Service
The word of God says it is better to give than to receive, be a giver and not a taker, love your neighbor as yourself and do unto others as you would have them do unto you. In addition to the aforementioned qualities, the JFA episode 10 guest has all the characteristics that every great volunteer has in common. She is fearless when it comes to giving, has infinite patience, is a creative thinker, initiative oriented, has a great deal of humility, is driven by passion, and is a team player. This wonderful, incomparable, YWCA nominated distinguished woman of the year, Staci Turner Yehl, speaks with Bingham about public service, her pathway to becoming an educator, constitutional rights, social inequality, and what needs to be changed to make America great. 

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Episode 9: Education v. Prison
Dewhitt interviews a Heartland Community College colleague who served with him as co-president of the Heartland Adjunct Faculty Association, and who is now an administrator in tutoring services, Jenny Crones. The two of them discuss:

• The cost of prison verses education
• Career paths to becoming an education administrator
• Constitutional rights
• The Ku Klux Klan
• White supremacy
• Black Lives Matter
• The Trump and Biden Administrations. 

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Episode 8: Mother and Sisterly Love

Bingham interviews the two people that he loves more than anyone in the whole wide world, his mother Annette Hall, and his sister Wanda Henderson. His mother birth him and his sister Wanda at the age of 15 and 16. At 74 years young, she talks about watching Bill Bradley play high school basketball, sneaking into the Crystal City football games, raising her kids, working in the Crystal City cafeteria at the age of 16 for $1.10 an hour while her kids were attending Crystal City Elementary school, going to night school, and spending 40 years working at the Jefferson County Head Start program as a teacher and director. Bingham speaks with his sister Wanda about the pandemic, as she has had a 35-year career in the nursing field. They also talk politics, Crystal City and Festus, constitutional rights, social justice, and criminal justice.

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Dewhitt interviews two Bloomington, Illinois social justice activists who are mother and daughter. The mother, Nikita Richards, has a military background, achieved great success as local head of the Democratic Party, and was recently promoted to serve as City of Bloomington's community relations manager. The daughter, Kaylin Richards, is super active, in her senior year at Bloomington High School, recently received the MLK award, is an anti-bullying ambassador for the Chicago Area Project, and has a desire to attend Tuskegee University, a Historical Black College and University.  

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