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1 week ago | 
wfyi.org | Farrah Anderson
June 21, 2025
People gathered on Saturday to celebrate Juneteenth at the Indiana State Fairgrounds to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States.
June 19 is the day in 1865 when troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to inform some of the 250,000 still enslaved Black Americans that they were free. But even after that day, it took a long time for thousands of enslaved people to be freed.
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2 weeks ago | 
wfyi.org | Farrah Anderson
Healthcare often isn’t the first priority for people reentering the community after incarceration. It can be hard to access, expensive and overshadowed by more urgent needs — like housing, food and employment.
But a new partnership on Indianapolis’s near northside is trying to change that.
The nonprofit Public Advocates in Community re-Entry, or PACE, supports people impacted by the criminal legal system.
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2 weeks ago | 
insideindianabusiness.com | Farrah Anderson |Farah Yousry
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1 month ago | 
wfyi.org | Farrah Anderson
May 17, 2025
Brittany York moved to Franklin Township, a neighborhood on the southeast edge of Indianapolis, for more space and a yard where she can watch the sunsets.
But like many of her neighbors, her yard floods when it rains — sometimes up to her ankles.
“People jokingly say they live in houseboats because they have to drive through water just to get to their house,” York said.
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1 month ago | 
wvpe.org | Farrah Anderson
Kevin Mock couldn't even remember his own name in one of his first court appearances for charges of battery of an officer. He had to be strapped into a restraint chair just to make it through the hearing. It didn't take long for Johnson County Superior Court Judge Douglas Cummins to acknowledge what was obvious — the 43-year-old needed a "competency evaluation." But that didn't mean a quick resolution. "He's gonna stay in jail until I get the evaluations done.
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2 months ago | 
lpm.org | Farrah Anderson
Kevin Mock couldn't even remember his own name in one of his first court appearances for charges of battery of an officer. He had to be strapped into a restraint chair just to make it through the hearing. It didn't take long for Johnson County Superior Court Judge Douglas Cummins to acknowledge what was obvious — the 43-year-old needed a "competency evaluation." But that didn't mean a quick resolution. "He's gonna stay in jail until I get the evaluations done.
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2 months ago | 
wfyi.org | Farrah Anderson
April 22, 2025
Kevin Mock couldn't even remember his own name in one of his first court appearances for charges of battery of an officer. He had to be strapped into a restraint chair just to make it through the hearing.
It didn't take long for Johnson County Superior Court Judge Douglas Cummins to acknowledge what was obvious — the 43-year-old needed a "competency evaluation." But that didn't mean a quick resolution.
"He's gonna stay in jail until I get the evaluations done.
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2 months ago | 
wfyi.org | Farrah Anderson
April 15, 2025
Reentering society after incarceration is never easy. A new study at an Indianapolis work-release facility set out to see whether offering more support could make the process less difficult.
The findings of the randomized control trial help answer a key question: What happens when reentry comes with more resources?
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2 months ago | 
wfyi.org | Farrah Anderson
April 5, 2025
Hundreds rallied at the Indiana Statehouse Saturday afternoon, joining a wave of protests across the United States opposing the policies of President Donald Trump.
Branded as “Hands Off!” protests, the demonstrations called on lawmakers to “take their HANDS OFF,” according to a flyer circulated by organizers. The protest was part of the 5051 movement — 50 protests in 50 states on one day — to push against the actions of the Trump administration this year.
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2 months ago | 
kbia.org | Farrah Anderson
More than 3,000 people in Indiana could lose access to birth control, cancer screenings, and sexually transmitted disease testing after the Trump administration froze tens of millions of dollars in federal funding from Planned Parenthood affiliates nationwide, including in Indiana and Kentucky. Although the number of abortions has plummeted since Indiana implemented a near-total abortion ban in 2023, the Trump administration has still sought to target the state’s Planned Parenthood services.
