Des Moines police are investigating a string of attacks centered around the Iowa State Fair, and say they may be racially motivated.
 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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Audio Included in Post. Runs 45 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 […]
Audio Included in Post. Runs 8 Minutes. Indiana Black Expo President/CEO Tanya Bell announced this morning a formation of a Task Force to examine ways of making Indiana Black Expo, especially its youth events, safer in 2011. Bell made her announcement at a press conference this morning at the ArtsGarden. The Task Force will include […]
I was downtown Saturday night, when the mess jumped off. When several were shot on downtown streets while Black Expo and its Teen Bling were happening. First some background. Ever since Circle Center opened, my Expo Saturday night ritual has been standing on the corner of Illinois and Maryland Street, starting around 8:30pm to watch […]
