Audio Included in Post. Audio©2010 WTLC/Radio One. The President of the IPS Board of School Commissioners, Rev. Michael Brown, came to Afternoons with Amos and defended the recent decision to raise the pay of some IPS Administrators. Brown said that the increases weren’t a “raise”, but were changes of administrators to different positions which carried […]
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A second Federal judge has ruled President Obama’s health care law unconstitutional for its requirement that Americans purchase commercial insurance. The ruling “even[s] the score at 2 to 2 in the lower courts as conflicting opinions begin their path to the Supreme Court,” according to the New York Times: But unlike a Virginia judge in […]
Audio Included in Post. Audio ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard addressed a wide variety of issues in his first extended appearance on Afternoons with Amos for 2010. In the interview Mayor Ballard talked about public safety, January’s high homicide rate, minority business opportunities, the Super Bowl, the new Public Safety Director, employment for […]
July 2nd, 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. The signing of this act was the most sweeping civil rights legislation since reconstruction. The Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion or national origin. See President Johnson’s remarks on the signing of this bill:
On October 1, 1962 James Meredith became the first African American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. President Kennedy had to send 5,000 federal troops after rioting broke out. Check out some footage from that day below:
Over the years there have been several African American sitcoms to grace to TV screen. Check out our gallery that pays tribute to those sitcoms:
The 3rd Annual BET Honors which was held at the Warner Theatre in Washington D.C. and the event will be a star studded show with appearances from the likes of BET Honors winner Whitney Houston, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, Queen Latifah, and performances by Patti LaBelle, Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. Hosted by Gabrielle Union, it comes on […]
According to the museum of broadcast communications, Jesse B. Blayton, Sr. made radio history when he became the first African-American to own and operate a radio station in America. Blayton was born December 6, 1897 in Fallis, Oklahoma and studied at the Walton School of Chicago and the University of Chicago. He moved to Atlanta […]
VIA: FindArticles.Com For centuries African Americans have dominated the American music scene. Black music is in fact America’s original music, and the Spirituals-Blues-Jazz-Gospel-Charleston-Twist-HipHop gift is the foundation not only of rhythm and blues but also of Broadway and The Grammys. Read about three of the most important moments in Black Music History below: 1. 1660 […]
Mary McLeod Bethune was an Educator and civil and women’s rights activist. Born July 10, 1875 in Mayesville, South Carolina. A child of former slaves, she began her life picking cotton, but a scholarship to Scotia Seminary in North Carolina in 1888 launched her long and distinguished career as educator and activist. Believing that education […]
Singer. Born Ella Jane Fitzgerald on April 25, 1917 in Newport News, Virginia. After a troubled childhood, including the death of her mother in 1932, Fitzgerald turned to singing and debuted at the Apollo Theater in 1934 at age 17. She was discovered in an amateur contest in Harlem and joined Chick Webb’s band and […]
