Community Voices

Are job training programs the answer to racial equity?

IMHOTEP ADISA - November 17, 2020

In an Indiana Business Journal (IBJ) article, author Hayleigh Colombo shared data from the Opportunity Atlas study showing major persistent income disparities between Blacks...

Business

Tic Toc Tech: Study, sports and service

RUPAL THANAWALA - July 2, 2020

If you want to pursue a four-year college education with a scholarship and continue your athletics, take a look at the military academies or...

Community Voices

Random But Relevant: A super and major suggestion of the Second Reconstruction

ANTHONY MURDOCK - November 17, 2020

Media has a hold on the way history has been written and how herstory will be written and whether memorializes or massacres, commemorates or...

Community Voices

Bacon Bits: I CAN breathe

March 10, 2022

I had the fortunate experience of earning a belt in Brazilian Jiujitsu, courtesy of Dragonfly Elite Martial Arts, one of the only Black-owned-and-operated Brazilian...

Community Voices

Protest or power? The mental health implications

GEORGE MIDDLETON - June 13, 2020

Inspired by the questionable shootings and deaths of the men in our community. If you had to choose between the two, which one would it be? Which of these feels more empowering...

Community Voices

Police reform revisited again?

IMHOTEP ADISA - November 17, 2020

In July 2017, I wrote about Indianapolis’s attempt to reform the police after the killing of Aaron Bailey.This piece could have been written yesterday....

Community Voices

Growing food is the real wealth

LA'KIYAH MUHAMMAD - November 17, 2020

Ten year financial planning is what most financially successful people use to stay wealthy. Their meticulous planning affords their families financial freedom for generations. How many...

Community Voices

Bacon Bits: The marathon will continue

March 10, 2022

We can’t stop.I know we are tired, hurt and frustrated. I know.Bill Withers, a pioneer of Black soul music who was born in 1938...

Community Voices

Random But Relevant: Mentorship from the 2Pacalyptic perspective allows the marathon to continue

ANTHONY MURDOCK - November 17, 2020

One of the hardest lessons I’ve ever had to learn was that all skinfolk ain’t kinfolk. It’s difficult to wrestle against racism and white supremacy, but it’s...

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