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Indianapolis Boy’s Mom Beats Up His Alleged Bully And It Was All Caught on Video
Latea Hentz, 36, allegedly asked school bus students if “Anybody want to get active?” in a now-viral clip.
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Indianapolis Center For Black Literature and Culture Enters New, Interactive Spaces
In the new wave of digitizing historic, Black archives, Indianapolis’ Center for Black Literature and Culture enters the chat.
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Indiana Lawmaker Apologizes for Saying Black Students Lack ‘Respect for Learning’
Bob Behning made the remark while answering a question from another lawmaker
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Head of Indianapolis Art Museum Resigns After Tone-Deaf Job Posting For Someone to Maintain Institution’s ‘Core, White Art Audience’
There’s already evidence of telling slip-ups from organizations trying, and failing, to authentically show a commitment to diversity and inclusion so many of them publicly professed during the racial justice reckoning of 2020. Such is the case of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, which last week issued a job posting for a new…
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No Charges for Indianapolis Cop Who Fatally Shot Sean Reed After High Speed Chase
More than six months after 21-year-old Dreasjon “Sean” Reed was fatally shot by an Indianapolis Metropolitan Police officer after a live-streamed high-speed chase, Special Prosecutor Rosemary Khoury and other members of law enforcement gathered at the Indiana State Police Museum on Tuesday night to announce whether a grand jury decided to bring criminal charges against…
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Black Man Shot and Killed by Indianapolis Police While He Was Livestreaming on Facebook
A large crowd came together in protest near the scene where a black man was fatally shot by police officers in Indianapolis Wednesday night. Indy Star reports that “between 100 and 150 people” gathered to demand answers as to why 21-year-old Sean Reed was shot and killed in an altercation with police that was livestreamed…
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Police Officer Charged With Punching Black Student, Lying About It
“Police reports are lies.”-Elie Mystal, Above the Law. An Indiana police officer has been charged with assaulting a high school student more than two weeks after multiple witnesses and two videos caught the cop pummeling the teen as if… Well, there may be a more poetic metaphor, but the way the officer delivered the heinous…
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Melvin Edmonds, Founder of R&B’s Soulful After 7, Dies at 65
Melvin Edmonds, older brother of legendary hitmaker Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds and a founding member of the R&B group After 7, which rose to fame in the ’90s, has died. He was 65. Melvin Edmonds’ death Saturday was announced by the group Monday on Facebook, and confirmed to the Indianapolis Star by his son Melvin. Edmonds…
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Children's Museum of Indianapolis to Pull Michael Jackson Items from Display
Located two hours from Michael Jackson’s hometown of Gary, the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis has decided to remove two pieces of Michael Jackson memorabilia from dismay following the allegations of sexual abuse in HBO’s “Leaving Neverland” documentary. The Indianapolis Star first reported on the museum’s decision. Purchased at auction in 2017, Jackson’s fedora and glove…
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Video: Police Arrest Black Man for Loitering at His Own Apartment Complex
After questioning a black man who appeared to be suspiciously inhaling oxygen and using his body to illegally process said oxygen, Indiana police officers consulted the official police handbook for trumping up charges and arrested an Indianapolis man for loitering at the apartment complex where he lives. According to RTV 6, Jaquon Dean was working…