In early January the Indianapolis Artsgarden sat mostly empty, except for the sound equipment and stage lighting. Except for the performers and musicians scheduled to record, one by one, under the atriumâs glass domes. Three days were filled with the energy and music surrounding Black History Month and Black artists in Indiana. Three days of reunion for artists and leaders as they prepared for the 25th annual Art & Soul.Â
The Arts Council of Indianapolis, in partnership with WISH-TV, is presenting the 25th Art & Soul at the Artsgarden 2021 online this year. Performances by 12 local artists and musicians, along with four featured artist performances, will be aired daily through the month of February. Shows will be available on WISH-TVâs Facebook page and the Arts Council website.Â
City leaders look to solve affordable housing crisis in creative ways
As many people face evictions and homelessness city leaders are looking to other cities for ideas
Scarce is how City leaders describe affordable housing in Tallahassee. But they say to change that may require thinking outside the box.
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TALLAHASSEE,Fla. (WTXL) â Scarce is how City leaders describe affordable housing in Tallahassee.
But they say to change that may require thinking outside the box. There s a lot of creative solutions that other cities are already implementing successfully that we need to considering and investing public dollars in, said City Commissioner Jack Porter.
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There is something black children, especially black girls, are told from a very young age. You know what it is. It has made its way into the political discourse and into television sitcoms. Statisticians have worked to prove and disprove it. Young black people talk about it at happy hours and black student association meetings. We say it silently with nods to one another when we meet in places we are not expected to be: as we take our seats on a panel of experts, for example. Or when we check in with the receptionist at a job interview for a VP position at a big corporation. Our eyes say it when they meet the eyes of other black people at glitzy charity balls. We say it to ourselves as we get dressed and step out into a world that was designed to fail us, to see us fail.
Pandemic, protests & fire December 30 2020
The Madras Pioneer looks back at the top five regional news stories of the year 2020
COVID-19. The pandemic. It defined much of life in Jefferson County and the entire planet in 2020. And it s not over. As we race to get vaccines in arms, we brace for what are expected to be numbing infection and death rates in the early months of 2021.
COVID and its economic and societal impacts touched everyone in 2020, and played a role in nearly all aspects of life. But the year also brought a once-a-century-type windstorm to the county in May and saw one of the largest wildfires in Oregon history spark in August on the Warm Springs Reservation.