The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST For Monday, September 21, 2015. (Interview With DeShaun Swanson’s Family & Coaches Starts At 34:06 Mark On PODCAST Media Player). Saturday evening, in the 8pm hour, at a house at 3918 Graceland in the Butler Tarkington neighborhood, a ten year old young man, DeShaun Swanson, was inside with his mother […]
NOTE TO READERS: PRAISEINDY.COM IS EXPERIMENTING WITH CREATING A PODCAST OF THE ENTIRE AFTERNOONS WITH AMOS PROGRAM. IT’S A WORK IN PROGRESS. YOUR COMMENTS & FEEDBACK ARE APPRECIATED! The Tuesday, April 28th, 2015 Edition of Afternoons with Amos focused on the situation in Baltimore. National Guard on the streets after an afternoon and night of […]
Last Saturday (Feb 1st), a 13 year old boy attending a birthday part in a house in a relatively crime free Indianapolis neighborhood, just northwest of 38th and Kessler Blvd, was gravelly wounded in a another random act of violence in Indianapolis. An estimated 100 young people were attending this party in a neighborhood of […]
So far in the new year 2014, homicides in Indianapolis are running ahead of the same period in 2013. As of January 24th there were 12 homicides so far in Indianapolis/Marion County for 2014. At this same date in 2013, there were 11. So we’re slightly ahead of the 2013 record pace. Recently on Afternoons […]
Indianapolis, like many American cities, is suffering this year from an explosion in street violence. Violence, murders and assaults with deadly weapons, has caused Indy homicide rate to be 50% higher this year so far. Now, Indianapolis has joined forty-nine other cities in a unique partnership program to help reduce and end Black-on-Black violence. The […]
Carlee Soto lost her big sister to gun violence. Like far too many in our African-American community, Ms. Soto is grieving the loss of a devoted family member because of the senseless gun violence. Ms. Soto’s sister was named Victoria. She always wanted to be a teacher and her dream job was teaching first graders. […]
On the eve of Indiana Black Expo and with community concerned about violence in Indianapolis and other Indiana cities and the fall out of the Trayvon Martin case, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence visited Afternoons with Amos. In his most extended interview on the program since becoming Governor, Pence talked with Amos and listeners on a […]
AFTERNOONS WITH AMOS EXCLUSIVE: Memphis, Tennessee is suffering from the same surge and scourge of violence, especially Black-on-Black violence as many other cities, including Indianapolis. But Memphis, the nation’s 20th largest city, has created an innovative, bold plan to help stop the violence and find meaningful solutions and hope for its young people. The effort […]
Denise Ford, mother of the late Tujuan Ford, and Trent Benefield, speaks about violence which has affected her family. Two of her sons have felt the sting of bullets and now she’s calling for an end to the violence.
