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Education

Books on Black history and Black life for kids

TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER -
Everybody in your family has stories to share. Your parents have told you some, no doubt. Your grandparents have offered few, too, and aunties and...
Frontpage Headline

Black innovation is American history: The overlooked legacy that built our everyday world

NORAL PARHAM -
As Black History Month continues, the conversation often turns to enduring struggles and cultural triumphs. However, in the halls of the Indiana Statehouse, City-County...
Sports

How Fritz Pollard integrated football and beyond

NORAL PARHAM -
In the depths of American sports, some pioneers are celebrated, their stories woven into the complex fabric of national identity. Others, like Frederick Douglass...
Black History Matters

2026 Black History Month Student Poetry & Essay Contest

CAMIKE JONES -
In recognition of Black History Month, The Indianapolis Recorder Newspaper is inviting local students to participate in our poetry and essay contest. Students in grades...
Opinion

College football ignores King’s legacy on its biggest stage.

DANNY BRIDGES -
When you live as long as l have, you will, from time to time, see something you can't believe or even remotely understand.  For the...
Community Voices

Freedom Day: A reckoning with January 1

CAMIKE JONES -
Most Americans think of New Year’s Eve as a night of celebration, filled with excited anticipation of New Year’s Day. But for millions of...
Frontpage Headline

Claudette Colvin, who refused to move seats on a bus at start of civil rights movement, dies at 86

ASSOCIATED PRESS -
By KIMBERLY CHANDLER, Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped...
Black History Matters

Killing King. Again.

LARRY SMITH -
Shortly before Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, a Harris Poll found that 75% of Americans disapproved of him. Yes, three out of four....
Arts & Culture

Jazz legend Everett Greene receives lifetime achievement award

CAMIKE JONES -
Legendary jazz vocalist Everett Greene recently received a lifetime achievement award as part of a musical fundraiser for the Neighborhood Christian Legal Clinic's Veterans...
Black History Matters

A ‘kingpin,’ a long-lost sister and a family’s untold story

CAMIKE JONES -
A local author uncovers her family's legacy in the pages of the Recorder Author and Indianapolis native Michelle Dartis never knew her family had strong...
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