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Everyone knows Valentine’s Day is the holiday where you exchange tokens of affection with those you love (or at least have some attraction to). Most people also know that if it’s the only day you’re giving love-related gifts to your significant other, you’re probably not going to make it to your next Valentine’s Day together. […]

Audio Included in Post. Audio ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. Judge Tanya Walton-Pratt testified Thursday, February 11, 2010 before the Senate Judiciary Committee which is considering her historic nomination to the Federal Courts in Indiana. Judge Walton-Pratt testified at the Senate hearing presided over by Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, of the Democratic majority and Senator Jeff […]

(PEOPLE.com) — The Rev. Ricky Kirton, the pastor who performed the marriage of Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren, has a message for the troubled couple: “Forgive each other. Be there for each other, and it will work out.” After learning of the pair’s marital troubles, which came to light after the pro golfer’s Thanksgiving car […]

From the NY Times: Former President Bill Clinton was taken to a New York hospital on Thursday with chest pains, a White House official said. Mr. Clinton has had a history of heart trouble but it was uncertain how serious his condition was as doctors evaluated him. Douglas Band, counselor to Mr. Clinton, issued this […]

Former President Bill Clinton has been hospitalized in New York City, NBC News has confirmed.

Washington (CNN) — Michelle Obama says she’s calling for the country to fight childhood obesity not just as the nation’s first lady, but also as a mother. Obama, who on Tuesday introduced a national campaign to combat obesity in children, told CNN’s “Larry King Live” Tuesday that she once thought she was doing everything she […]

Los Angeles, California (CNN) — Louis Gossett Jr. recently learned he has prostate cancer, but it is in an early stage, the actor said Tuesday. “I count this diagnosis among the many challenges I have faced in my life and overcome,” Gossett said in a statement. “I expect this to be no different.” The Oscar-, […]

Audio Included in Post. Audio©2010 WTLC/Radio One. Daveed Nelson, the originator of “The Last Poets” visited Indianapolis during Black History Month and appeared on Afternoons with Amos.  Daveed was in Indy to appear at the Crispus Attucks Museum and talked with Amos about his career. Daveed Nelson, (aka Brother Daveed) was the orginator of “The […]

  VIA: New York Times I put down Rebecca Skloot’s first book, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” more than once. Ten times, probably. Once to poke the fire. Once to silence a pinging BlackBerry. And eight times to chase my wife and assorted visitors around the house, to tell them I was holding one […]

You don’t understand. You updated your résumé, you’re applying to jobs every day, you’ve cleaned up your digital dirt and you network every day. Yet here you still are on the unemployment list. What is wrong with employers? Unfortunately, many job seekers don’t stop to consider that the problem might not be employers but themselves. […]

Audio Included in Post. Audio©2010 WTLC/Radio One. Bertrand Camus, CEO of United Water and CEO of Suez Environnment North America praised his company’s sixteen year record of service to Indianapolis in an exclusive Afternoons with Amos interview.  Top United Water executives from the US, Mexico and Canada were in town for a management conference. United […]

How do you count six days when you can see neither sun nor stars? Buried under a crumbled building, Maxi Falon marked time by the roar of tractors and bulldozers, by the sound of voices. “There’s nobody alive in there,” she heard them say. When there was silence, she believed it to be night. But […]