Empowering Voices, Honoring Legacies.

Our Priorities

People

Research and apply innovative cultural heritage practices and technology

Places

Develop and apply best practices, inclusive policies, designs, and improvements to promote equity

Prosperity

Support Black-owned businesses and enhance economic development knowledge

Impactful Collaborations

  • Legacy Lands Alliance

    The mission of Legacy Lands Alliance (LLA) is to conceive a better future for Indianapolis that honors the histories of Black and Indigenous peoples living now through the lens of pronoia - the exuberant feeling that everyone is rooting for you.

  • Legacy Lands | Protopian Futures

    BlackLight worked alongside Legacy Lands | Protopian Futures, a multi-disciplinary design studio at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. This Ivy League studio imagined the future possibilities for Indianapolis’ Historic Indiana Avenue and its surrounding neighborhoods, absent of racial segregation, eminent domain, and slum clearance policies.

  • Heritage and Humanities Scholars Program

    In partnership with the Center for Africana Studies and Culture at Indiana University Indianapolis, the Heritage and Humanities Scholars Program is centered on Black cultural heritage through community-based research.

  • Storytelling

    BlackLight’s “Storytelling” is a program to preserve the vast amount of personal community memory and how the loss of any individual, impacts the whole of Indianapolis’ collective history.