INDIANAPOLIS — Local religious groups are denouncing recent comments by Indiana Lieutenant Governor Micah Beckwith surrounding his belief that the Three-Fifths Compromise was “a great move.” In a ...

Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith explains in his stance in defense of the Three-Fifths Compromise in a social media video posted Thursday, April 24, 2025. (Screenshot from a video posted to the lieutenant ...

Micah Beckwith, now Indiana's lieutenant governor, speaks to a crowd on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024, in Greenwood. (Casey Smith/Indiana Capital Chronicle) Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith’s defense of the ...

The Concerned Clergy of Indianapolis, a group founded as part of the Civil Rights Movement, is asking Gov. Mike Braun to condemn Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith's statement that the Three-fifths Compromise ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith is defending comments he made about the Three-Fifths Compromise. On Sunday, he posted to Facebook, criticizing opponents of a recent video. “The Left is ...

UPDATE (4/30/2025): When asked on April 30, 2025, about Beckwith’s comments regarding the Three-Fifths Compromise, Gov. Mike Braun took a disapproving stance. “I definitely wouldn’t have used that ...

Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith criticized state Senate Democrats for equating a GOP legislative proposal intended to root out diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in higher education to ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Leaders from both the Statehouse and churches from across Indiana are continuing to call on Gov. Mike Braun to denounce controversial comments made by Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith. The ...

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INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) – Leaders in Indiana from both the statehouse and the churches are calling on the governor to denounce controversial comments the lieutenant governor made online. In April, Micah ...

Indiana’s lieutenant governor is facing backlash from some of the state’s religious and civil rights leaders after he called the Three-Fifths Compromise, which counted each Black enslaved person as ...