Rename W.H. Harrison High School in West Lafayette, IN

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The incredibly talented and insightful author of our petition to Rename W.H. Harrison High School was interviewed by VICE this week about Doug Mastriano's Christian Nationalist campaign for Pennsylvania governor.

Brock Bahler, a professor in the Religious Studies Department at the University of Pittsburgh, makes his appearance at the 7 minute mark: https://video.vice.com/.../thurs.../635c3780f830475784337a83

On this , please SIGN & SHARE our petition to remove the honor to a genocidal general by renaming this hometown high school.
https://www.change.org/RenameHarrisonHighSchool

America has a long legacy of revisionist history, whereby the respectable achievements of America’s leaders and Founders are highlighted, while their numerous atrocities are repeatedly eliminated or minimized from the history books in order to put them in the best possible light. As filmmaker Ken Burns has recently said, “Our monuments … are representations of myth, not fact, and as we consider what role monuments play in our culture, it’s the history, not the mythology, that we must remember.”

Sign the Petition Rename W​.​H. Harrison High School; Remove 'The Raider' mascot in Greater Lafayette, IN

Black officers who fought segregation and discrimination 77 years ago in the U.S. Army Air Forces at an Indiana military base will be honored this week in Seymour.

In 1945, more than 100 Black officers were arrested after refusing to sign a regulation barring them from entering a whites-only officer's clubs and facilities at Freeman Field near Seymour. This came after dozens of Black officers attempted to enter the white officers clubs in protest.

Black officers in Freeman Field mutiny honored with statues in Seymour Black officers who fought discrimination 77 years ago in the U.S. Army at an Indiana military facility will be honored this week in Seymour.

“Please refrain from complaining further, and restrain your cultural ignorance and bias for another lifetime, preferably in the 1800s,” Kaipara wrote in an email to the viewer.

New Zealand news anchor with traditional face tattoo blasts viewer’s racist comments “Please refrain from complaining further, and restrain your cultural ignorance and bias for another lifetime, preferably in the 1800s,” the anchor wrote in response to the viewer.

Structural racism plays a large role in determining the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and affects people’s access to quality housing, education, food, transportation, political power, and other social determinants of health. Understanding and addressing systemic racism from this public health perspective is crucial to eliminating racial and ethnic inequities, and to improving opportunity and well-being across communities. Our Human Relations Commission investigates complaints of discrimination in the City of Lafayette and encourages respect and understanding of all individuals and groups. Questions? See http://lafayette.in.gov/611/Human-Relations-Commission