Black history is American history – Indianapolis Business Journal
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on February 10, 2024
Indiana University Indianapolis (formerly IUPUI) is a top-notch urban university that includes Indiana’s premier medical school and one of its great law schools. But much of this campus was built literally on top of a vibrant African American community that was displaced, without its consent or even consideration, in the name of “eminent domain,” the “public good” and “progress.”
Today, Indiana Avenue is just a downtown street, but before the creation of IUPUI in the 1970s, it was the heart and soul of Black Indianapolis. If we go back further in time, the land upon . . .
