Center for Africana Studies and Cultures welcomes A’Lelia Bundles

The Center for Africana Studies & Culture at IUI announced a panel conversation featuring Prestigious Fellow, author and journalist A’Lelia Bundles. “Book Bans, Education, and the Long Campaign to Teach the Truth about Black History” takes place at 6 p.m. Sept. 4 at the Madam Walker Legacy Center. Bundles will join a panel alongside Leah Johnson, Nichelle Hayes, Dr. Cleveland Hayes and Sen. Andrea Hunley in the third edition of her “In discussion” series to talk about the importance of teaching Black history and representation in literature. This panel discussion will also touch on Bundles’ experience growing up in Washington Township Schools and watching “the 50-year pendulum swing” from an American history curriculum that was now seeking to ban inclusive narratives.& “Book Bans, Education, and the Long Campaign to Teach the Truth about Black History” builds on Bundles’ previous two discussion, the first of which focused the portrayal ofBlack Hoosiers and Midwesterners in pop culture and the ways new generations are re-imagining those portrayals. The second discussion, entitled “Displacement Development and Heritage on Indiana Avenue,” touched on issues surrounding displacement and development in historically Black Indianapolis neighborhoods and strategizes ways to implement future development while ensuring heritage preservation.& The discussion...