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Community Voices

We won’t let anyone take away our history

ANDRE CARSON - May 9, 2025

Our history and our community are under attack. President Donald Trump claims that there has been a “concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s...

Sports

IMS Museum acquires Chip Ganassi Racing cars ahead of Indianapolis 500

NORAL PARHAM - May 2, 2025

As the countdown to the 108th running of "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing" enters its final weeks, one museum is boosting its collection just...

Arts & Culture

Phyllis Wheatley YWCA commemorated with historical marker

CHLOE McGOWAN - April 29, 2025

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street now has a new Indiana State historical marker, commemorating the Indianapolis Phyllis Wheatley YWCA. Named after the first published...

Frontpage Headline

Legacy never dies: Ilyasah Shabazz on her father, Malcolm X, and the future of Black leadership

HANNA RAUWORTH - April 10, 2025

At the Malcolm X Institute of Black Studies on the campus of Wabash College, legacy lives and breathes. This year, as the institute marks its...

Opinion

Princess Tiana hugged me, and representation still matters

CAMIKE JONES - March 26, 2025

As a part of Indiana Comic Con’s weekend of events right in the middle of Women’s History Month, I interviewed two living, breathing, history-making...

Community Voices

This is not a drill

LARRY SMITH - March 20, 2025

For several decades, I have loved studying history. I was first smitten with the subject due in large measure to my late high school teacher,...

Frontpage Headline

A life stolen, a truth reclaimed: George Tompkins lynching memorialized with historic marker

HANNA RAUWORTH - March 18, 2025

A ceremony at Municipal Gardens Family Center honored the life of George Tompkins, a 19-year-old Black man lynched in Indianapolis in 1922. Local leaders...

Education

RECORDER EXCLUSIVE: Purdue University acquires property on Indiana Avenue, plans for student hub

CHLOE McGOWAN - March 14, 2025

Purdue University is expanding its reach by purchasing a property at 518-520 Indiana Avenue. The university purchased the property to meet the increasing enrollment demands...

Community Voices

Censored in the name of free speech

CAMIKE JONES - March 13, 2025

The presumed fight for free speech has become a masterclass in silencing. Politicians champion the First Amendment while simultaneously banning books, erasing curricula, criminalizing journalists...

Arts & Culture

‘Voices of the Spirit’ honoring legacy of Black composer Margaret Bonds

CHLOE McGOWAN - March 11, 2025

The Indianapolis Symphonic Choir’s “Voices of the Spirit” aims to give Black composer and trailblazer Margaret Bonds “long overdue recognition.” The Indianapolis Symphonic Choir boasts...

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