Jim Browne talks with Alfred Lopez, a Cuba scholar who has written a book on Jose Marti’, a Cuban revolutionary and contemporary of Abraham Lincoln. Lopez spoke recently at Illinois State University. Also, you’ll hear from Chris Breu, an ISU English Professor and author of the book Insistence of the Material: Literature in the Age of Biopolitics. And Jon Norton talks with Mardra and Reggie Thomas ahead of their appearance at JazzUpfront in downtown Bloomington this weekend.