Indiana Black Expo’s 45th Annual Summer Celebration continues today with some highly anticipated top notch events focused on career, culture and taking care of your health. Click the media player below to hear what’s on tap on this Throwback Thursday: To see this year’s schedule of events, click HERE. ###(@PraiseIndy)### kimwellsmedia 071615 Follow me on Twitter@kwellscomm.
Reverend Charles Harrison, the founder of the Ten Point Coalition and pastor of Barnes United Methodist Church has made a decision about his political future. This morning, Harrison released a statement thanking his supporters for their signatures to put him on the ballot and said he strongly encourages the remaining candidates in the race to address issues such […]
The “Indy BackPack Attack” kicks off this Monday morning at the Indianapolis Zoo. You can stop by as a business or faith-based entity to pick up your collection box to collect donations on behalf of the program to assist Indy-area kids with their school supply needs when they head back to class this Fall. The box distribution […]
Have you noticed that the price of eggs has risen nearly 50-percent in just the last month? It almost makes one scream ouch at the refrigerated section of the local grocer. The reason for the increased price tag of “protein by the dozen” has been blamed on one of the worst bird flu epidemics the […]
One candidate in the 2016 race for the White House has reacted on Thursday to the deadly racially-motivated massacre at “Mother” Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Click the media player below to hear from Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton and what she thinks we need to do to move forward: ###(@PraiseIndy)### kimwellsmedia 061915 Follow me […]
No sympathy. That’s what the man accused of killing nine people in a South Carolina church on Wednesday is getting from his uncle. Carson Cowles in a no-holds-barred interview with the Los Angeles Times Thursday said that his nephew, suspected shooter Dylann Roof is, “guilty as hell.” Cowles told the newspaper that the 21-year-old would get the death penalty […]
Indianapolis Metro Police say a police chase this Monday morning has ended in a serious crash on the city’s southeast side. Police were in hot pursuit of a suspect after a theft at the Beech Grove Walmart store on South Emerson Avenue. Police say they terminated the pursuit just before this three-vehicle crash happened in the […]
No one stopped to help then, but you can help now. A fund has been set up for the family of a man who was fatally struck by several cars on the northwest side of Indianapolis last month. That hit and run victim was later identified as Michael Tyson. Tyson was hit by as many as […]
Metro police are busy this Monday morning still working to find out who shot and killed a woman overnight just south of downtown. They suspect robbery was the motive according to witness accounts. The yet unnamed victim was found lying in the street at around 1:15 a.m. shot multiple times on South East Street. Fox […]
A new policy at Indianapolis Public Schools will now allow staff to intervene in fights. The district was criticized earlier this month when a teacher was caught on camera failing to break up a brawl at Northwest Community High School on the city’s north west side. The teacher could be heard telling the students to […]
The family of a 12-year-old boy who drowned at his apartment complex’s pool on Tuesday is now asking the Indianapolis community for your help to pay for his funeral. Charles Obu-Darko and his sister moved here to Indy from Ghana to be with their father about a year ago. The family says people are asking how […]
An alarming new study says black children are taking their own lives at a higher rate than other children. A new study says the suicide rate among black children ages five to eleven has nearly doubled in the past 20 years. Researchers at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio studied suicide rates for children […]
