Your Life Matters

  Bankers Life Fieldhouse is where young African-American men showcase their talents and expertise in basketball, professional and college, or entertain through music and musicianship.  But recently the Fieldhouse was the setting for a gathering to unveil ways of helping all of Indianapolis’ young African-American males age 14 to 24 reach their full potential. A […]

Responding to a continued rising level of murders and violence in Indianapolis, where 66% of the victims and 64% of the suspects were African-American males, as part of the Your Life Matters® effort, Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard appointed Tanya Bell, President & CEO of Indiana Black Expo, Inc., and Jamal Smith, Executive Director of the […]

The National Center On Family Homelessness has released its annual report card on how states fair on helping homeless children. The new report entitled “America’s…

Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 4th. That’s one day away and you are encouraged to vote at the polls. But according to election officials in Marion County, early voting numbers are down 50 percent from the mid-term election in 2010. Mail-in ballot requests are also down 60 percent. So you may need a little incentive to show […]

#MotivationalMonday Quote When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‘You’re no good,’ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, […]

Taking care of your neighborhoods and your neighbors is the focus of a day of service here in Indianapolis where you actually get three days…

College campuses and their surrounding communities across the U.S. have often-times been places where sexual assaults happen against co-eds. The Obama Administration is taking it’s next…

A free event to connect young minority males with professional male mentors in our community gets underway on Saturday, Sept 20. It’s called the Kings Feast…

A free event to connect young minority males with professional male mentors in our community gets underway on Saturday, Sept 20. It’s called the Kings Feast Symposium. Organizer, the Bloom Project, Inc., hopes to make an impact on impressionable males between the ages of 12 and 18, their parents and professional men in this fourth annual […]

It’s celebration day for the Jackie Robinson West All-Stars. Chicago is holding a rally in Jackie Robinson Park Wednesday morning and is hosting a parade for the National Champions winding from Chicago’s South Side to downtown, ending at Millennium Park on the city’s lakefront in a final rally. The all-African American team, hailing from the city’s South Side won […]

“NBC News” is investigating the death of a young African American man at the hands of police that is reminiscent of the 1987 death, here in Indy, of 16-year-old Michael Taylor. Taylor was shot in the head as he sat in the back of an Indianapolis police cruiser with his hands cuffed behind his back. Taylor’s death was ruled […]

After criticism for not getting involved and engaged in the battle to reduce crime in Indianapolis, the business community has come to the table. Eli Lilly and Company President Dr. John Lechleiter has said his company, along with some of Indianapolis’ major businesses and foundations are pledging to help raise the matching funds necessary to […]