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 ...

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 ...

Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith is facing backlash for sharing a debunked conservative argument that the Three-Fifths Compromise was a step toward ending slavery in response to a discussion ...

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 ...

“Our Fathers in forming the Federal Constitution entered into a guilty compromise on the subject of Slavery, and heavily is that sin now visited upon their children.” The bracing opening line of ...

Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith recently posted a short video denouncing the “DEI radical revisionist history” taught by “professors at woke schools.” His target: the idea that the Three-Fifths Compromise ...

Coalition of Clergy denounce Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith's Three-Fifths Compromise comment To stream 13 WTHR on your phone, you need the 13 WTHR app.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Local religious groups are denouncing recent comments by Indiana Lieutenant Governor Micah Beckwith surrounding his belief that ...