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On Saturday, the city of Bloomington hosted a “Black Market” at city hall as part of its celebration of Black History Month. The event was an homage to the Black Market of the late 1960s, which was firebombed by a man with ties to the Ku Klux Klan. The market

“None of the above tract of land is to be ever sold to colored people.” That is the text of a covenant recorded on a deed dated Nov. 6, 1912 for some land located at the northwest corner of 17th Street and College Avenue in Bloomington, Indiana. A point in

Monroe County sheriff Ruben Marté has fired a guard at the county jail after an altercation with a prisoner, because the guard “failed to follow our high standard requiring de-escalation whenever possible.” In the bodycam footage  that was released by the sheriff’s office, as three guards tussle with the

In a Thursday afternoon meeting that lasted about six and a half minutes, Monroe County’s three-member election board dispatched all the resolutions related to setting polling locations for the May 2 primary elections. There will be 17 polling locations for Bloomington’s city elections and one for Ellettsville. The

On Wednesday night, a four-member special committee of the Bloomington city council met to consider the possible removal of Greg Alexander from the city’s traffic commission. The outcome of the committee’s deliberations included scheduling two more meetings, both of them before a deadline of March 1. The full

This Monday marked the first meeting of Monroe County’s community justice response committee (CJRC) after the membership was revised by county commissioners—to include all three commissioners, reduce the number of judges from four to two, but not add any representatives from Bloomington city government. The previous couple of