The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST For Friday, August 21, 2015. (Entire PODCAST Is About Department of Child Services Issues). Inside my office at the radio station is a box of documents the media were provided after the tragic death of Tajanay Bailey in December 2007. Tajanay was a three year old Black girl, in the […]
 The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST For Thursday, August 20, 2015. (Interview With Bethel AME Church On Is The Church In Peril Starts At 54:28 Mark On PODCAST Media Player). Is Indiana’s Oldest Black Church is danger; in peril?  Bethel AME Church is the oldest African-American church in the city.  Nearly as old as the city […]
The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST for Tuesday, August 18, 2015. (Discussion Of 2016 City/County Budget Starts At 30:16 Mark On PODCAST Media Player). It’s a record spending amount Mayor Greg Ballard introduced in final budget, one he’s required to introduce, but where he will have no authority to execute. The proposed 2016 budget for Indianapolis/Marion […]
The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST For Monday, August 17, 2015. (Discussion With Bill Crawford About Life of Julian Bonds Begins At 57:05 Mark On PODCAST Media Player). In the pantheon of civil rights heroes Julian Bond ranks among the top. Son of educators, Julian Bond started his career as an organizer and leader of the […]
The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST For Thursday, August 13, 2015. (Interview With Folks From Pogue’s Run Grocery Starts At 1:41 Mark On PODCAST Media Player). Could a grocery store coop be a a solution to the crisis of food deserts and lack of grocery stores with fresh produce and meats in inner city African-American neighborhoods? […]
The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST For Wednesday, August 12, 2015. (Interview With Perry Township School Officials Starts At 1:18 Mark On PODCAST Media Player). It’s been thirty-six years since some 6,000 Black students were bused from Indianapolis Public Schools neighborhoods into six Marion County townships. For those decades, Indianapolis’ cross district busing involved tens of […]
The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST For Thursday, August 6, 2015. On the 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act we asked Afternoons with Amos listeners on their ideas to improve voter turnout, especially from among African-Americans. (Interview with State Democratic Chair John Zody Starts At 3:54 Mark On PODCAST Media Player) Meanwhile guests brought up […]
The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST For Wednesday, August 5, 2015. The Interview With IPS Supt. Dr. Lewis Ferebee Starts At 52:27 Mark On PODCAST Media Player). In a wide ranging interview on the third day of the new school year, Indianapolis Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Lewis Ferebee talked about the districts’s new Student Code of […]
The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST For Tuesday, August 3, 2015. (Extended Interview with Chase Bank Execs Starts At 46:12 Mark On PODCAST Media Player). Nearly a month after it was first revealed by a listener to Afternoons with Amos, that Chase Bank, the city and state’s largest was closing bank branches in two majority-African-American neighborhoods, […]
The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST For Monday, August 3, 2015. (Interview with Rep. Andre Carson Starts At 2:27 Mark On PODCAST Media Player). It’s the sixth straight year that Congressman Andre Carson has sponsored a job fair to help residents of his district find employment or upgrade their current employment. The Job Fair is this […]
The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST For Friday, July 31, 2015. News of a historical discovery, interviews with the leader of the largest African-American religious denomination and one of Indy’s mayor candidates makes a strong proposal of dealing with the food desert crisis dominated Afternoons with Amos for the last day of July. (Interviews With National […]
The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST For Thursday, July 30, 2015. After sixty-nine years on the corner of 38th Street and Washington Boulevard, on the border between the Butler/Tarkington and Mapleton-Fall Creek neighborhoods, sat a bank branch with Art Deco architecture, more beautiful inside than outside. It housed first an Indiana National Bank for many years, […]
