When Karrah Herring was named Indiana’s first equity, inclusion and opportunity officer by Gov. Eric Holcomb in November 2020, she was planning ways to balance her work and her...
Leadership Indianapolis hosted a series of virtual panels throughout February to discuss the housing situation in Indianapolis and try to find solutions.
Housing can be...
Members of local minister groups want Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department to be more transparent and strengthen its homicide unit.
Stephen Clay, president of the National...
Members of the Indiana Black Legislative Caucus (IBLC) are calling for implicit bias training for Indiana House and Senate members and for Indiana Republican...
Women & Hi Tech’s Executive Women’s Forum (EWF) of 2021, featuring Indiana Health Commissioner Dr. Kristina Box, was very informative and educational. This EWF...
Severa Cox is “1001%” enjoying her new career as a software engineer.
Before Severa Cox began her software development course at Eleven Fifty Academy, she...
A challenge that households and communities face is that lead pollution is often invisible, coming into homes through old and worn-out water pipes or...
Shawnta S. Barnes, known as Educator Barnes, discusses issues parents should consider when sending Black children to school in the suburbs.
Guests included:
Zandria Conyers, parent,...
Marlin Jackson, founder of Pulse Analytix and former Indianapolis Colts football player, developed an app that allows people to document interaction with police officers....
The Indianapolis Recorder and the Greater Indianapolis NAACP Branch partnered to present "Racism is a Public Health Crisis," a panel discussion that focused on how...
For nearly 25 years, Jillian "JJ" Simmons' cool voice and infectious personality flowed through radio airwaves across the country, including Indianapolis as a longtime...
Know Your History!The precursor to Black History Month was created in 1926 in the United States, when historian Carter G. Woodson founded the Association...
Calling The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air a "cultural touchstone" is a gross understatement. Although it’s one of the most important black television shows ever made, it...
In a piece that she admits might be “petty” African Londoner Zipporah Gene calls out African Americans who appropriate African culture.…Black Twitter is littered with countless...
July 5, 1975More Racial disturbancesForty injured in racial disturbances in Miami, Florida.July 5, 1975 Arthur AsheArthur Ashe makes history by becoming the first African American...
Know Your History!While slavery in America hosts the background of Black history, the African American impact on history reaches beyond the country's early history,...
From BlackAmericaWeb.com Alice Dunbar Nelson was a teacher and writer from New Orleans, praised for her activism and poetry. A graduate of Dillard University,...