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Participants raised a fist as a symbol of solidarity for the Black Lives Matter movement July 9 at the State House in Indianapolis.
Praying for peace Indianapolis responds to recent violent acts with Black Lives Matter protest By Grace Palmieri gpalmier@indiana.edu | @grace_palmieri
Treasure Jones can’t get the dreams out of her head. Like the one where she gets a call that her sister or brother has been shot. Or the dream where she’s sitting in her driver’s seat. She bends over to pick up the ID she dropped, and the police officer thinks she’s pulling a weapon. He shoots her. Jones remembers that one vividly. Her dreams were a reality for two black men — Alton Sterling and Philando Castille — just in the past week. So Jones was one of hundreds to gather in front of the Indiana Statehouse on Saturday to protest the violence and remember those men’s lives. “Black Lives Matter” and “Am I Next?” the signs read. “Spread love” and “End Racism Now.” People young and old, of different ethnicities, paid tribute to black lives lost and hoped their stance would start to make a change. Angie Alexander of Don’t
Stop, an anti-oppression group that organized the rally, knows enacting change is much harder than it sounds. This was her fifth BLM protest. “This is the time for us to come together, express how we feel, laugh together, cry together and just be black,” Alexander said. Following Sterling’s death, videos surfaced on the internet. Alexander tried to watch one, but couldn’t bear it. Then another video of Sterling’s son and his mother speaking at a press conference spread. Sterling’s son, 15, pulled his shirt over this face as he broke down and cried out “I want Daddy.” As a mother, Alexander saw her two little girls in the video. “I’m walking around with a target on my back all the time,” she said. “And I don’t want my children to have to say they want their mommy because someone who has vowed to serve us and protect us has taken me away.” Saturday night, they prayed SEE PROTEST, PAGE 3
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ROAD TO RIO
Local law enforcement community prays together after Dallas shooting By Michael Hughes michhugh@indiana.edu MichaelHughes94
A group of about 100 stood silent, with their eyes closed and looking down in front of the Monroe County Courthouse on Friday night. The group of law enforcement officials, family members and members of the Bloomington community remained that way for a few minutes, before raising their heads once again to return to the candlelight vigil planned by family members of local law enforcement officials. The events Thursday night in Dallas prompted this group to form around the flag pole in front of the courthouse, which was raised at half mass to honor the five police officers killed the night before. “It was a pretty overwhelming response,” Sara Hunter said. “I’m pretty delighted with the support and I’m thankful everybody could get together and comfort each other.”
Amid speculation of who he might choose to be his vice president, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is having a rally in central Indiana. The rally will start at 7:30 p.m., after a private fundraising event, and comes on the heels of Indiana Gov. Mike Pence’s name becoming increasingly popular in discussions for the vice presidency spot. The rally will take place in Westfield, Indiana, at the Grand Park Events Center, according to a release from Trump’s campaign. Pence declined to say whether he would be in attendance or not Tuesday night while at a memorial for fallen Indiana State Police officers Friday. He said it wasn’t the time or place to discuss politics. The past week has also seen two other potential candidates to run alongside Trump withdraw from consideration. Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker did so after attending a rally
Our thoughts, pg 7 Read our editorial about the past week’s events and why we stand by Black Lives Matter Hunter helped organize the vigil Friday night with the assistance of a couple other wives of police officers in Monroe County. The vigil comes after five officers were killed when a gunman opened fire during an otherwise peaceful Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas. The protest was in response to the shootings of two African-American men by uniformed police officers in Minnesota and Louisiana. But during those minutes of silent prayer, Hunter said she wasn’t praying specifically for police officers or for the two men who lost their lives in the last week. Hunter was simply praying for peace and that’s what she will continue to do in the coming days. Those who attended were SEE VIGIL, PAGE 2
Derek Drouin qualifies for Rio From IDS reports
IU alumnus Derek Drouin has qualified for the Olympics once again in the high jump for Team Canada. Drouin has made it to the Olympics before in his career. At the 2012 Olympics in London, Drouin earned a bronze medal. Since London, Drouin has had great success, especially on the world stage. In 2015, he won the gold medal at the Pan American Games in Toronto. At the World Championships later in 2015 in Beijing, Drouin won the World Championships. Drouin earned his gold medal after his other three opponents in the finals faltered. At IU, Drouin won five NCAA Championships in the high jump. He won the outdoor national championship in 2010 and 2013, and won the indoor national championship in 2010, 2011 and 2013. Andrew Hussey
Program gives African students ideas for civic engagement By Michael Hughes michhugh@indiana.edu MichaelHughes94
The odds were against him and he had already failed once. Still, when the United States embassy in Swaziland announced the application for the Mandela Washington Fellowship was open again, Thamsanqa Sibandze had to apply. This year, Sibandze was selected and is now spending three weeks in Bloomington studying alongside other young African leaders. “We’re just here to find out how the City of Bloomington handles their civic engagement,” Sibandze said. “Obviously, when you go back to Africa it’s a different context, but there’s so much we can learn from just a how-to perspective, and then take that and put that into an African context.” The program, created in 2014 by President Obama, takes representatives from all 49 countries in subSaharan Africa. In all, there are 1,000 applicants selected to travel to the U.S. and study at universities around the country out of around 49,000 applicants. Sibandze is a hip-hop artist in his home country, but also produces youth radio and TV programs and is an ambassador for Bushfire Schools Festival, which tries to introduce education and entertainment to public schools throughout Swaziland.
He also works with the Safeguard Young People program, which works toward improving the reproductive health of adolescents throughout southern Africa. But another aspect that makes the Washington Fellowship Program rewarding was the diversity of students selected, Sibandze said. Interacting with all these young African leaders is almost as rewarding as the studies themselves. In addition to those with similar backgrounds to Sibandze, there are also those with political experience. There are also those, like Mamadou Sy, who have experience in public health. In his home country of Senegal, Sy has traveled throughout rural areas working as the chairman or chief physician in various medical centers. “I learned one thing, which is really important, which is how government and business can interact,” Sy said. “In our country, it’s more the government is really powerful and it’s a government that organizes everything.” Sy pointed to Cook Medical, a private health-based company in Bloomington, as an example of a health institution having influence and interacting with government institutions. When these types of institutions interact, the result FANGXIN HAN | IDS is improved quality of life in the Omer Jose Landry Guehi talks to Hal Tuner, the speaker, about his thought of the American political system July 7 in room 1100 at the School of Global and International Studies. He said he was amazed about how the system functions and how different it is from
SEE FELLOWSHIP, PAGE 3 the political system in his country.