‘No story is insignificant’: Naptown Narratives highlights local hero in season 4 premiere 

Presented by Circle City Storytellers and Loving Light Productions, the season four premiere of Naptown Narratives will feature lights, cameras and action along a red carpet and more beginning at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 28 at the Kan-Kan Cinema. “The world might be talking about George Floyd, and the world still has yet to talk enough about Breonna Taylor and Sandra Bland and so many more Black folks’ names who needs to be said,” said Anthony Murdock, creator of Naptown Narratives. “But it’s the stories of people like Dreasjon Reed who matter on the street to us right now, and we need to be aware of so many stories here.” Naptown Narratives was born in 2020 out of a need to highlight Indianapolis’ local heroes in the midst of the pandemic. There was a need in the education space as it pertained to Black history being taught from the Black perspective, and Murdock said he saw the way “the lack of awareness and knowledge was informing how people responded to the pandemonium.” With this thought process and desire to figure out how to bring that Black history knowledge to the community — Murdock realized there simply was not space for...