Dana Lee

It was still one of the few spaces on Butler University’s campus he considered a safe haven. So even as two Butler police officers entered the room to investigate where someone wrote the words “white power” on a whiteboard, first-year Abiodun Akinseye...

Seventeen years of teaching at Northwest High School, and Genevieve McLeish-Petty had never met a student like Abiodun Akinseye. She knew who he was before he ever enrolled in her sophomore honors English class. He was exceptionally bright, creative...

The high five between the 18- and 56-year-old was timed perfectly. David Flonnery’s left arm swung low and Rick Monroe’s lifted up, swooping together until the sound of their two palms meeting echoed across the basketball court inside the Irsay Family...

The words look foreign on the green flashcards, and they sound foreign to him, too, when Phillip Kittrell, a first-grader at IPS School 43, sounds the vowels out. No one said learning how to read was easy — sometimes Y is a vowel, but it can be a...

He’s not in class anymore, so he doesn’t need to raise his hand, but that’s what elementary school kids do when they have questions — they raise their hand. He has multiple questions, and all of them are directed at Andrew Wignall, a Marion County...

For high school sophomore Emelia Gliege, the promise of freedom starts with a donated bike in the Freewheelin’ Community Bikes workshop. The seat needs adjusting, the bike chain may need oiling, and upon a second evaluation, the handlebar appears to...

Almost everyone in the gym has a nickname. Securing boxing gloves on the outstretched arm of the teenager in front of him, James Curles tried to recall how the nicknames started. He shrugged. Kids are always streaming in and out of Achieve, Inc., a...

She misses the way he asked for grapes after school — with the stems off, please? Even now, Kristy Nelson laughs at the silliness of it all. She loved that friends teased her teenage son Bryan about being “Mommy’s boy,” and it made her even happier...