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Major Taylor: Champion of the Race retraces the life and legacy of an American civil rights pioneer who set more than 20 world records in speed cycling during the heart of Jim Crow America.
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Duke Energy reports more than 3,000 people without power in the Monroe County area after an outbreak of severe weather.
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Follow WTIU’s production team to California as they document Gene Stratton-Porter’s pioneering work in early Hollywood, from Catalina Island to San Juan Capistrano. This behind-the-scenes update from producer Todd Gould highlights new interviews, historic locations, and ongoing restoration efforts for Music of the Wild, premiering November 2026.
Alex Paul
Bloomington filmmakers Kevin Weaver and Mitch Hannon created Common Ground Films to combat commercial expectations for documentary film and tell the stories of individuals who otherwise would not have their stories told.
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In 1973, the skies over Muncie, Indiana lit up with mysterious lights and unexplained sightings that sparked a full-blown UFO mania.
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Mexican migrants to the Calumet Region in the 1920s began to form their own fraternal benefit societies, already popular in their native country.
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jayantha/Adobe StockPoet Daniel Lassell reads “Llama,” “Ritter Park Cabin,” “Frame [Like a resurrected body],” “Downward Rooms,” and “Frame Inside a Frame [In the underworld].”
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How should universities rethink teaching, policy, and student learning in a world where AI is reshaping the classroom?
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Learn about past theories on the nature of our closest star with today's A Moment of Science!
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A survey of songs from the American Songbook about dancing.
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The Arundel Psalter MS 83 II, (a.k.a, Psalter of Robert de Lisle), c. 1310./British LibraryWe're exploring how Renaissance musicians captured the sounds of animals in their music as we take a trip through a musical zoo. Along the way, we’ll hear the beautiful calls of the Nightingale, see the mighty crocodile, and hear a choir of all the animals singing together.
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In the 1940s a young jazz singer with a four-octave range and bebop chops burst onto the big-band scene with Earl Hines and Billy Eckstine before going on to establish herself as a solo star.
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While no longer in use today, most people are still familiar with the mid-Atlantic accent of the past. What led to this particular form of pronunciation, and why isn't it around today? -
Included in the bill that would be of particular interest to Indiana farmers is a proposal for year-round E-15 fuel sales, a potential boon for the state’s corn industry. -
Two Republicans and two Democrats are running for Clark County sheriff in the primary. -
Some union NIPSCO workers have agreed to a new contract, letting them return to work, but the lockout continues for others. -
Proposed federal rollbacks to coal ash cleanup rules are raising concerns that toxic contamination could worsen in Indiana, which has more coal ash sites than any other state. -
Aerial devices are being used to poach deer and buzz livestock, they say -
State defends law; ACLU seeks restoration of direct alumni elections -
City officials shared details of their investigation into the Kirkwood Avenue shooting that injured nine people overnight. Bloomington's police chief told reporters that the shooting wasn't random or aimed at the crowd. -
Police initially reported that nine people sustained gunshot wounds after gunfire erupted on Kirkwood Avenue early Sunday. Only five were hurt by gunfire, the Bloomington police said. Four more were hurt in the aftermath. -
The race was the 75th running of the men's Little 500, an IU and Bloomington tradition that draws tens of thousands of fans for the weekend.
