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The City of Bloomington is suspending the Bloomington Community Farmers’ market for the next two Saturdays. Bloomington Mayor John Hamilton announced Monday the market will be closed August 3rd and 10th in response to escalating tensions over the presence of Schooner Creek Farms, a vendor with alleged ties to white nationalist groups. The Tuesday market will continue running at Sixth …

A new report, by the Monroe County chapter of the NAACP and the Unitarian Universalist Church of Bloomington’s Racial Justice Task Force, found African-Americans in Monroe County are disproportionately affected by the Criminal Justice system. Less than four percent of Monroe County residents are Black, but last year African-Americans made up over a quarter of those imprisoned from Monroe County. …