[1] It marketed itself as a "colored newspaper for the home devoted to the interests of the race in Indiana.
[3] Arthur D. Williams also served at the paper and was involved with baseball.
[4]: 51 It noted Madame Walker arriving at a game in a limousine and engaged in a campaign to stem "drinking, gambling, and rowdiness" at the baseball park.
[4]: 55 It published second baseman Wallace C. Gordon's poem on race relations.
[4]: 57 Howard was photographed with Elwood C. Knox (son of George L. Knox and a manager of the Indianapolis Freeman), Andrew Rube Foster, and C. J. Taylor after the Indianapolis ABCs won a World Series Championship.