Source: Indiana Black Expo / Indiana Black Expo
Indiana Black Expo honored the media at a reception Tuesday night at the Indiana Convention Center. During the event, ABC Network Correspondent Linsey Davis spoke to those gathered. Davis worked here in Indianapolis at WTHR-TV 13 for five years, so her appearance was a homecoming. The Indianapolis Association of Black Journalists awarded two scholarships to deserving students in the names of two late pioneering Indianapolis journalists.
Leah Johnson, a senior at Indiana University-Bloomington received the Lynn Dean Ford Scholarship. Raven Moody, a senior at Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis received the Lis Daily Crawford Scholarship.
Johnson is a three-time winner of an award from the organization and was in New York completing an internship at the Wall Street Journal. Her mother accepted on her behalf. Moody is completing an exchange student program with Prairie View A&M where she’s serving as news editor for their student-run newspaper. She was present at the event. Both awards were $500.
Ford was a ground-breaking newspaper columnist at The Indianapolis Star and broadcaster, Crawford, was the community affairs director at WTHR-TV 13. She’d spent much of her career as a television news anchor and served as the spokesperson for the first African-American elected Indiana Attorney General.
Events of this cultural celebration continue today. To see the IBE Summer Celebration 2015’s calendar of events, click HERE.
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