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Audio Included in Post. Runs 14 Minutes. Audio©2011 WTLC/Radio One. Mayor Greg Ballard announced a crackdown against parents who “drop their kids off at places like the (Circle Centre) mall each weekend” and those kids get into trouble. But the Mayor’s State of the City Speech crackdown has caused confusion among parents and the community.
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Audio Included in Post. Runs 50 Minutes. Audio ©2011 WTLC/Radio One. Indianapolis/Marion County Public Safety Director Dr. Frank Straub returned to Afternoons with Amos; one year after starting his job. Straub discussed with Amos and listeners a wide variety of topics from youth gangs and violence; new ways of police working with youth, crime and homicides, and IMPD’s poor record of hiring and promoting African-American officers.
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Audio Included in Post. Runs 45 Minutes. ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. Members of the Ten Point Coalition, a group of ministers that works with youth, gang members and the community to reduce crime reported on Afternoons with Amos the creation of a gang truce for Classic weekend and during the summer, a Gang Help Line to hep parents learn if their children or grandchildren may be in a gang. Guests included Pastor Charles Ellis, Rev. Horatio Luster and Rev.
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Des Moines police are investigating a string of attacks centered around the Iowa State Fair, and say they may be racially motivated.
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He was an accomplished athlete with a promising future, but a gunshot ended it all. A young man was killed while leaving a club in Detroit; gunned down over a pair of glasses.
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Audio Included in Post. Runs 52 Minutes. ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. A panel of Indianapolis teens spoke out on their reaction to the violence during Black Expo on a special Afternoons with Amos. Twelve teens from various area high schools gave their views on teens today, Expo events, unescorted youth downtown, and many other issues and problems today’s teens face.
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Audio Included in Post. Runs 47 Minutes. ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. A panel of Indianapolis teens spoke out on their reaction to the violence during Black Expo on a special Afternoons with Amos. Twelve teens from various area high schools gave their views on teens today, Expo events, unescorted youth downtown, and many other issues and problems today’s teens face.
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Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi has filed a fourteen count criminal complaint against the alleged shooter of nine persons during the Black Expo downtown July 18th. In a Probable Cause affidavit filed today (July 26th), prosecutors charged Shamus Patton with fourteen counts of battery, aggravated battery, criminal recklessness, carrying a handgun without a permit, dangerous possession of a firearm and criminal gang activity.
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The Indianapolis African-American community created Indiana Black Expo forty years ago. They feel a sense of ownership to the organization and event. Here’s a sampling of the e-mails Afternoons with Amos has received this week about the Black Expo violence and this year’s Expo events. The words are as the writers wrote them. Only punctuation and grammar changes were made. – Amos Brown
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Audio Included in Post. Runs 55 Minutes. ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. Listeners and the community frankly gave their views on what was good, not so good and what could improved upon with this year’s 40th Indiana Black Expo Summer Celebration. It was the 7th annual Community Evaluation of Black Expo on Afternoons with Amos. Listeners weighed in on exhibits, prices, food, the music events, and of course, the problems of violence and unescorted youth. Listen to the first hour of the
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