Audio Included in Post. Runs 53 Minutes. ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. The Indianapolis Public Schools have revealed their plans to change their school calendar, from 180 days of school over ten months; to 180 days of school over twelve months. In the plan revealed Wednesday (Oct 6th) school would start August 1, 2011 and run in […]
Ten Point Coalition Comes To AWA; Discussing Gang Help Line For Parents; Other Crime Reduction Plans
Audio Included in Post. Runs 45 Minutes. ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. Members of the Ten Point Coalition, a group of ministers that works with youth, gang members and the community to reduce crime reported on Afternoons with Amos the creation of a gang truce for Classic weekend and during the summer, a Gang Help Line to […]
Audio Included in Post. Runs 15 Minutes. ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. There’s a new President at the NCAA, but the leadership changes also reconfirms and recommits the organization to their strong commitment to diversity and inclusion. Afternoons with Amos talked to Dr. Bernard Franklin, Executive Vice-President of the NCAA. Franklin, the highest ranking African-American at the […]
Audio Included in Post. Runs 13 Minutes. ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. Christamore House, which has served Haughville and Indianapolis’ Westside for 105 years is in the most serious financial crisis in its history. Seven people were laid off and programs at the center have been sharply curtailed. Christamore House Board members Joe Brown and Reggie Walton […]
Audio Included in Post. Runs 24 Minutes. ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. Why is I-70, a major Interstate highway being closed for 12 hours this Thursday? So, thousands of volunteers from Eli Lilly can beautify and landscape the roadway in a unique beautification effort. Eli Lilly Senior VP Bart Peterson and Keep Indianapolis Beautiful head Dave Forsell […]
Audio Included in Post. Runs 13 Minutes. ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. In an exclusive interview on Afternoons with Amos, Gene Sperling, Special Counselor to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, told listeners about efforts of the Obama Administration to help community based banks get resources to serve their communities. Sperling also confirmed that the TARP bailout, begun under […]
Audio Included in Post. Runs 13 Minutes. ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. Afternoons with Amos broadcast live the annual Circle City Classic Coaches Luncheon. And Amos caught up with some special honorees. Major Taylor award winners Roosevelt Colvin and Clark Kellogg, plus the 2010 Ms. Circle City Classic Jaleesa Jones and her court, Racia Poston and Sierra […]
Jaleesa Jones, a senior at North Central High School has been chosen as the twenty-fifth Ms. Circle City Classic. Jones was chosen Sunday from twenty-nine high school seniors, representing eleven Central Indiana high schools, in the 25th annual Classic Coronation. Racia Poston, of Ben Davis High School was selected First Runner-Up while Sierra Nance, also […]
Audio Included in Post. Runs 51 Minutes. ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. Passion and emotion was expressed on Afternoons with Amos as officials of the Indianapolis Cultural Trail explained their project and the proposed sculpture of a freed slave that would be part of the multi-million dollar project. Appearing were Brian Payne, Executive Director of the Central […]
How should the struggle of African-Americans in Indianapolis be portrayed? New York-based, African-American artist Fred Wilson thinks the sculpture above is how. Wilson is designing a sculpture for the Indianapolis Cultural Trail, the bike and pedestrian path being built downtown. Wilson’s work, titled E Pluribus Unum (Out of Many, One), would be the first public […]
Audio Included in Post. Runs 17 Minutes. ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. Charlie White is the Republican candidate for Indiana Secretary of State. In that position he would enforce Indiana’s election laws. But White resigned this week from the Fishers Town Council when it was revealed he’s lived for months at an address outside his council district. […]
Audio Included in Post. Runs 9 Minutes. ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. Wall Street reform is now law having been pushed by President Barack Obama and the Congress. In an exclusive interview, Afternoons with Amos talked with Dr. Cecilia Rouse, a member of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors. Dr. Rouse, on leave from Princeton University, talked […]
