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Summer rains bring flowers and flooding

JULIE L RHODES -
While all that rain we received in June and July were great for our gardens and green lawns, all that rain also meant more...
Community Voices

COVID’s lingering effects on mental health hit Black community hard

TAUHRIC BROWN -
While many of us are celebrating the end of mask mandates and trying to find a new normal post-COVID-19, a large percentage of the...
Community Voices

Another year, another record murder rate

ABDUL-HAKIM SHABAZZ -
Indianapolis is on track for another year of record murders.   I will let that sink in.  As I write this column, we have had close to...
Community Voices

Indiana redistricting realities: Make our maps fair

LAKIMBA DESADIER -
Politicians in states across the country are actively working to make it more difficult to vote, from preventing ​absentee ballot requests​ from being mailed...
Community Voices

More than a number

LEADERSHIP INDIANAPOLIS -
Conversations around public safety and criminal justice seem to never end. When you turn on the news, open a paper, scroll social media or...
Community Voices

IPS proved resilient and ready during 2020-21 school year

ALEESIA JOHNSON -
The pandemic represented perhaps the greatest single challenge that schools in this country have faced in a single year. At Indianapolis Public Schools, we...
Opinion

Boyd: Critical race theory: ‘the boogeyman of 2021’

OSEYE BOYD -
If there is one thing conservatives know how to do it is whip people into a frenzy. When the right takes a stand against...
Community Voices

Smith: The limits of philanthropy

LARRY SMITH -
Philanthropy is one of humanity’s primordial impulses. We see examples that are as old as recorded history. Indeed, based upon the data that we...
Community Voices

Hayes: Black librarians play integral but unseen role in helping community

NICHELLE M. HAYES -
Currently, I serve as the vice president of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA). Last year BCALA reached 50 years of...
Opinion

Boyd: Low wages are the problem, not workers

OSEYE BOYD -
The COVID-19 pandemic created a giant chasm between public health and safety and the economy. Maybe the chasm was always there, but it became more...
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