Flanner House former director laid solid foundation for Indy nonprofit
Flanner House continues building on the vision and legacy of Cleo Blackburn by adding needed services such as a grocery store, farm and bookstore.
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Flanner House continues building on the vision and legacy of Cleo Blackburn by adding needed services such as a grocery store, farm and bookstore.
The neighborhood, which was first established in 1897, is named after Freeman Ransom, an attorney for Madame C.J. Walker and her company.
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH)– The Indiana Fever basketball team paid a visit […]
When Black folks started fleeing the Jim Crow South at the start of the Great Migration, Indianapolis was one of the first places where they ended up. It was barely outside the South. When they got to Indianapolis, Black folks started some of the first urban farms, formed housing cooperatives and started grocery stores. They were so industrious and successful, when Madam C.J. Walker needed a place to scale up production of her famous hair products for Black women, she came to Indianapolis — right here to Indiana Avenue, where she moved her company headquarters in 1910. For many decades, thi...