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They produced and co-hosted a weekly radio program, The Afro-American in Indiana, which ran from 1971 to 1991 on WIAN, the local public schools station, eventually affiliated with National Public Radio; [19] served as editors of a journal, The Afro-American Journal, begun in 1973; [20] produced and co-hosted the television program, Afro ...
Front page of the Indianapolis Leader, one of Indiana's first African American newspapers. Newspaper rack with issues of the Gary Crusader in 2020. Various African American newspapers have been published in Indiana. The Evansville weekly Our Age, which was in circulation by 1878, is the first known African American newspaper in Indiana. [1]
Rudolph "Rudy" R. Pyle III: [31] [32] First African American male judge in Madison County, Indiana; Gonzalo Manibog: [33] First Filipino American male to graduate from the Indiana Law School in Indianapolis (1917) [Marion County, Indiana] James T.V. Hill: [34] First African American male lawyer in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
Indiana’s state attorney general is investigating whether a “coordinated effort” between nonprofits and employers resulted in thousands of Haitian migrants funneling into small-town ...
The majority of Afro-Haitians are descendants of enslaved Africans brought to the island by Spain and France to work on plantations. Since the Haitian Revolution, Afro-Haitians have been the largest racial group in the country, accounting for 95% of the population in the early 21st century. The remaining 5% of the population is made up of mixed ...
African Methodist Episcopal churches in Indiana (6 P) African-American history of Indianapolis (1 C, 31 P) African-American people in Indiana politics (2 C, 11 P)
Raymond Lohier, became the first Haitian American to be confirmed (unanimously) by the United States Senate as a Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit in New York; Mia Love, first Haitian-American and first black Republican woman in Congress; U.S. House of Representative for Utah's 4th district and former mayor of Saratoga Springs ...
Lillian May Parker Thomas Fox (November 1854 – August 29, 1917) [1] was an African American journalist, clubwoman, public speaker, and civic activist in Indianapolis, Indiana, who rose to prominence in the 1880s and 1890s as a writer for the Indianapolis Freeman, a leading national black newspaper.