The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST for Friday, July 10, 2015.  African-American leadership has always been more than elected officials and pastors and Faith leaders.  It also included Black professionals – teachers, lawyers, businesspeople and dentists and doctors.  Indianapolis prided itself on having a stable of great Black professional servant/leaders who were medical professionals. Dr. Frank […]

Eskenazi Health Honors Legacy of Distinguished Physician A prominent physician in Indianapolis history is being honored for his contributions to medicine and the Indianapolis community. Dr. Harvey Middleton (1895-1978), who was the first African American physician to practice medicine at a major Indianapolis hospital, will be honored Friday, July 10, at the Sidney & Lois […]

While Indiana Governor Mike Pence was visiting Canada on a trade mission, he make a bit of Hoosier History back home in naming a new health commissioner. Governor Pence named Dr. Jerome Adams as Commissioner for the Indiana State Department of Health. What makes Dr. Adams’ appointment signigicant is the fact that Adams is African-American. […]

AFTERNOONS WITH AMOS – YOUR LIFE MATTERS WEEK! How does Indy’s Medical Community have to say about the city’s rising violent crime wave?  The men and women, the doctors, nurses and medical technicians who work in the Trauma Center at Indianapolis’ Level One Trauma Hospital, Eskenazi, have strong feelings about violence and what needs to […]

It’s a Special Edition of Afternoons with Amos on a subject I’ve never done in twenty years of talk show in Indianapolis. Mental Health!  It’s a subject people don’t like to talk about, especially in African-American communities.  But the incidence of mental health disease and disorders amongAfrican-Americans, young, adults and seniors is growing.  There’s a […]