Audio©2009 WTLC/Radio One. Thomas Perez, the new Assistant Attorney General in the US department of Justice heads the Department’s Civil Rights Division. Perez visited Indy Friday to highlight Attorney General Eric Holder’s and President Barack Obama’s committment to civil rights and fighting hate crimes. Perez was celebrating prison terms given to three men who burneda […]
In a series of articles and editorials this week, the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette newspaper has accused the operator of charter schools in Indianapolis and Fort Wayne of not adhering to state laws governing charter schools. In the articles, the Journal Gazette reports that instead of the boards of the four Imagine Charter Schools in […]
Audio Clip Included in Post.Audio©2009 WTLC/Radio One. Profilic actress Nicole Ari Parker (Soul Food, Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins) visited Indianapolis Thursday to participate in the annual Statewide HIV Awareness Day sponsored by the Indiana Minority Health Coalition and the Indiana State Department of Health. Parker was filling in for her husband Boris Kodjoe who had […]
Last week on Afternoons with Amos, Joshua Brewster, Deputy Director of the Indiana Civil Rights Commission, was challenged to document cases of discrimination in employment and housing where the Commission had taken action and stood up for protecting the rights of Hoosiers. Brewster provided AWA with a list of case resolutions from this year. Those […]
Audio Clip Included In Post. Audio©2009 WTLC/Radio One, Inc. The day after Indianapolis/Marion County voters overwhelmingly approved the building of a new Wishard Hospital, Health and Hospital Corporation CEO Matt Gutwein came to Afternoons with Amos to thank the community for their support. Gutwein explain the next steps and that work on the project would […]
In the most lopsided referendum election result in Indianapolis history, voters of Indianapolis/Marion County overwhelmingly approved the Wishard Hospital Referendum. So far with 55.4% of the vote counted, 33,495 voted for the referendum, while 6,811 voted no; or 81.7% to 16.6%. The five-to-one landslide vote will provide for the construction of a new, modern and […]
Audio ©2009 WTLC/Radio One. Thursday (October 29th) former City-County Councilman Lonnell “King Ro” Conley and police Sgt. Dennis Fishburn appeared on Afternoons with Amos to explain why Indianapolis should vote “Yes” on Tuesday’s Wishard Hospital referendum. Here’s Part Three of that interview.
Audio ©2009 WTLC/Radio One. Thursday (October 29th) former City-County Councilman Lonnell “King Ro” Conley and police Sgt. Dennis Fishburn appeared on Afternoons with Amos to explain why Indianapolis should vote “Yes” on Tuesday’s Wishard Hospital referendum. Here’s Part Two of that interview.
Audio ©2009 WTLC/Radio One. Thursday (October 29th) former City-County Councilman Lonnell “King Ro” Conley and police Sgt. Dennis Fishburn appeared on Afternoons with Amos to explain why Indianapolis should vote “Yes” on Tuesday’s Wishard Hospital referendum. Here’s Part One of that interview.
While most of America slept Wednesday night/Thursday morning, President Barack Obama traveled to Dover Air Force Base, where the bodies of 18 U.S. personnel who died Monday in Afghanistan were flown home on an Air Force C-17 transport. Here’s how the scene was described by the White House Pool Media. The President, wearing a dark […]
On the Monday (October 26th) edition of Afternoons with Amos, there was another “Unofficial Poll of the Airwaves”. Afternoons with Amos listeners who participated in Monday’s “unofficial poll” overwhelmingly plan to vote in the Tuesday, November 3rd referendum and plan to vote “Yes” on the Wishard referendum. On those responding 100% said they planned to […]
Audio Clip Included In Post. Audio©2009 WTLC/Radio One. Dee Dee Strum, from Indianapolis, is the new National President of the Coalition of 100 Black Women. In an exclusive interview Friday, Strum talked to Amos Brown about the organization and her new role.