The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST For Monday, July 27, 2015. A series of meetings and conference calls over the weekend led to various segments of Indianapolis’ African-American leadership to come together to provide some short term immediate solutions to the crisis caused by the sudden closing last week of the city’s four Double 8 Grocery […]
URGENT UPDATE: On Saturday, July 25th, elected officials, ministers, community leaders and the public met at Flanner House to begin developing strategies to cope with the loss of the Double 8 stores. Strategies include shuttles for those without transportation to be able to do basic grocery shopping. Other options and plans are being explored. Afternoons […]
The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST for Thursday, July 23, 2015. (Story & Community Reaction Begins At 20:30 Mark On PODCAST Media Player). They were staples in the Indianapolis community for fifty-eight years. Founded by a refugee from the Hungarian Revolution, Zoltan Weisz named his business 7 to 11 Stores and in 1957 began doing business […]
The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST For Wednesday, July 22, 2015. (Story And NEW Information On Chase Closings Starts At 59:08 Mark On PODCAST Media Player) Wednesday’s Afternoons with Amos featured NEW information about the Chase Banks closings in Indiana and particularly Indianapolis with information obtained from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. This […]
The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST For Tuesday, July 21, 2015. Afternoons with Amos listeners had plenty to say about the controversial traffic stop and then subsequent of 28-year-old Sandra Bland, from the Chicago suburb of Naperville who went to Waller County, Texas to get a job at Prairie View University, was involved in a controversial […]
The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST for Monday, July 20, 2015. For the past eleven years, the Monday after Indiana Black Expo’s Summer celebration, Afternoons with Amos devotes its entire program to allowing the community to have its say about how Summer celebration went. Indiana Black Expo was created forty-five years ago from the bosom of […]
The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST For Wednesday, July 15, 2015. (Story Starts at 48:52 Mark On PODCAST Media Player And Continues At 1:09:10 Mark). Afternoons with Amos has learned that Chase, Indiana’s largest bank, with 53 branches alone in Marion County, is closing one-third of their branches located in African-American majority neighborhoods. An action that […]
The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST For Tuesday, July 14, 2015. Â (Interview Starts At 1:12:21 Mark On PODCAST Media Player). It’s always great after all these years to see an African-American who worked in Indianapolis media and then left for a new and better opportunity to become successful. Linsey Davis was a Reporter and Weekend Anchor […]
The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST for Friday, July 10, 2015. African-American leadership has always been more than elected officials and pastors and Faith leaders. It also included Black professionals – teachers, lawyers, businesspeople and dentists and doctors. Indianapolis prided itself on having a stable of great Black professional servant/leaders who were medical professionals. Dr. Frank […]
The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST for Monday, July 11, 2015. (Commentary On Chase Closing At The 1:18:25 Mark on PODCAST Media Player. Interview With Caller Revealing the Chase Meadows Branch Closing At 1:25:09 Mark). Just as the first news that Chase Bank was closing two branches in the African-American community was learned from an Afternoons […]
The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST For Thursday, July 9, 2015. An extremely active and information packed program. Â (AME Interview Starts At 5:42 Mark On PODCAST Media Player). Black Expo week besides Summer Celebration activities, some 5,000 Christians from the United States and the world will be in Indy as part of the Quadrennial Conference of […]
The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST for Wednesday, July 8th, 2015. (Discussion And Update On Chase Bank Closings Starts At 39:04 AND 1:12:47 Mark On PODCAST Media Player). On Day Three of the crisis of Chase Bank Closing Branches in Indy’s Black Inner City Areas, Afternoons with Amos updated listeners and the community on the lack […]
