Audio Included in Post. Runs 20 Minutes. ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. Appearing on Afternoons with Amos City-County Council President Ryan Vaughn and Democratic Councilman Brian Mahern offer proposals to help bring reform to Indianapolis’ troubled police department. The proposals would include increase the level of education required for police recruits and those promoted to command ranks. […]

Audio Included in Post. Runs 18 Minutes. ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. In an exclusive Afternoons with Amos interview, a national foundation reported that Indiana is one of the ten worst states in graduating Black males from high school. A report titled Yes We Can by the Schott Foundation for Public Education reported that just 42% of […]

Audio Included in Post. Runs 18 Minutes. ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. Deputy Administrator of the US Small Business Administration, Marie Johns, visited Indianapolis and Afternoons with Amos to talk about the positive changes the Obama Administration have made to the agency. Johns, an Indianapolis native, North Central HS and Indiana University grad, was appointed earlier this […]

Audio Included in Post. Runs 25 Minutes. ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. In an exclusive Afternoons with Amos interview, Audrey Wiggins of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law updated listeners on the class action lawsuit charging that the 2010 Census’ background check procedures discriminated against Black and other minority applicants for Census jobs. Recently, […]

Audio Included in Post. Runs 51 Minutes. ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. Afternoons with Amos broadcast live from IPS School 15, Thomas Gregg School on the first day of school. School 15 is one that worked with the United Way and the Near Eastside and Martindale/Brightwood neighborhoods to improve attendance on Day One. Amos talked with Principal […]

Audio Included in Post. Runs 46 Minutes. ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. Afternoons with Amos broadcast live from IPS School 15, Thomas Gregg School on the first day of school. School 15 is one that worked with the United Way and the Near Eastside and Martindale/Brightwood neighborhoods to improve attendance on Day One. In Part 2 Amos […]

Audio Included in Post. Runs 5 Minutes. ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. During Afternoons with Amos’ live broadcast from Opening Day of the Indiana State Fair, Amos met Tamika Allen, a new owner of a Habitat for Humanity home being built at the State Fair. Amos talked with Tamika and Habitat for Humanity/Indiana Executive Director Dean Illingsworth.

Audio Included in Post. Runs 6 Minutes. ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. During Afternoons with Amos’ live broadcast from the Opening Day of the Indiana State Fair, Amos talked  with one of the Black-owned vendors at the Fair. William Kennedy, along with his wife Katherine, own and operate Delia’s Ribs food booth at the Fair. They’ve been […]

Audio Included in Post. Runs 6 Minutes. ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. Indianapolis has been awarded the first Big Ten Football Championship to be played December 2011 at Lucas Oil Stadium. Amos talked with Indiana Sports Corporation executive Director Susan Williams about this and how it would benefit our community.

Audio Included in Post. Runs 10 Minutes. ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. During Afternoons with Amos’ live broadcast from Opening Day at the Indiana State Fair, Amos talked with Indiana’s First Lady Cheri Daniels about her love of the Fair, her time in office and whether her husband, Gov. Mitch Daniels, might run for President of the […]

Audio Included in Post. Runs 11 Minutes. ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. This year’s Indiana State Fair is the Year of the Pig. During Afternoons with Amos’ live broadcast from Opening Day at the Fair, Amos talked with Mike Platt of the Indiana Pork Producer. Platt discussed how big Indiana’s pork industry is, that the industry is […]

Audio Included in Post. Runs 8 Minutes. ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. During Afternoons with Amos’ live broadcast from Opening Day of the 154th Indiana State Fair, Amos talked with Fair Executive Director Cindy Hoye. The Indiana State Fair is the sixth biggest in the country and one of just three State Fairs located in a Black-majority […]