Dewhitt L Bingham Justice For All Podcast Show

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 yea...

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 Speci...

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 Illi...

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, tal...

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 patien...

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,...

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 su...

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 Sc...

Dewhitt sits down with  Adam Heenan, former Chicago Public School teacher, education expert, social activist, and community role model. He says teaching conditions are student’s learning condition. The school to prison pipeline, teacher compensation and administrative comportment’s direct relationship to student learning, free community college, student loan forgiveness, private prisons, Mariame K...

Dewhitt interviews two of his best friends and colleagues from the McLean County Probation Department, Suzanne Montoya, and Robert Banks. Educational pathways, race relations, offender rights, politics, the military, and the Trump and Biden Administrations are discussed. Mrs. Montoya who birth her first child at the age of 17, had Bingham as a college professor, is his current boss, and serves as...

Bingham defines cultural diversity, including diversity in the workplace. In his presentation he praises HBCUs, Caucasian and African Americans involved in the Douglass Cooperative High School and Festus Senior High School integration, and local greats such as Adam McCollough, Bernice Thompson, Margaret Gill, Ralph B. Tynes, and Willa McCollough. He too mentions greats such as Thurgood Marshall wh...

Bingham sits down with the Honorable Judge Elizabeth Robb, the First Lady of the 11th Judicial Circuit and the Honorable Judge John Freese, two local legal scholars and retired Chief Judges, to let the public know that judges are human and not robots, and to discuss the recent appointment of the Honorable Judge Carla Barnes, the first African American appointed to the bench in the 11th Judicial Ci...

Dewhitt interviews three young, HBCU, and Lincoln University graduates, who all work with juvenile offenders. The three graduates, including Bingham’s daughter, do not hold back, giving the emerging adult perspective on juveniles, race relations, the Trump and Biden Administrations, and pathways for high school and college students.  Sign up for the FREE Dewhitt L. Bingham Justice for All Newslett...

Bingham introduces himself to his listening audience and takes a personal approach to explaining why he must do his part to better all things social justice and criminal justice. This includes, but is not limited to race relations, economic inequality, educational opportunity, fair housing, the wealth gap, and the lack of black judges, police officers, prosecutors, and administrators in the crimin...