Art on the Avenue: Opening Reception for “Unveiling a Forgotten Legacy”

Each quarter, our Art on the Ave program highlights a different artist, and this time, they’re excited to showcase the incredible work of Zola Lamothe at the historic Walker Building. Sharing one’s legacy is one of the deepest forms of gratitude we can express. At this event, you’re invited to celebrate this act by voicing your appreciation…

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ABHM Book Club Presents: Our Town By Cynthia Carr

Our Town book discussion

In memory and honor of Thomas Shipp, Abram Smith and our Founder Dr. James Cameron; who were lynched in Marion, IN, this month’s book club read will be Cynthia Carr’s Our Town. Carr, who grew up in Marion and later became a journalist, explores the issues of race, loyalty, and memory in America through the lens of this lynching that occurred in Marion but could have happened anywhere. Part mystery, part history, part true crime saga, Our Town is a riveting read that lays bare a raw and little-chronicled facet of our national memory and provides a starting point toward reconciliation with the past.

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Community collects soil in remembrance of 1930 lynching

On the 90th anniversary of the infamous lynchings of Thomas Shipp and Abraham Smith, and the attempted lynching of James Cameron, members of the Marion (Indiana) Community Remembrance Project collected soil to be sent to the Equal Justice Initiative’s (EJI) National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama.

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