Community Connection Tuesday, February 13th, 2024 On today’s edition of Community Connection, we continue to highlight Black History Month and pose the question, what mistakes did we make in teaching Black History? We open the lines to our listeners for their take on the query. We then kick off our second hour with an update […]

Community Connection Tuesday, February 6th, 2024 On today’s Community Connection, open lines as we invite Indianapolis Attorney Tyjuan Garrett on to the show & react to today’s judgement against Donald Trump.

Community Connection Monday, February 5th, 2024 Today on Community Connection, we kick off a new week with Open Lines as we continue to observe Black History Month! Then, in our second hour, we are joined by the BBB of Indianapolis’s Director of Communications, Jennifer Adamany as she alerts us to new fraud methods and scams […]

Community Connection Thursday, February 1st, 2024 Today on Community Connection, we celebrate & observe the first day of Black History Month! Join us as retired IMPD officer & former City County Councilor Sherron Franklin talks with us about the Black History of IMPD and much more! Then, we invite the organizers of the upcoming Community […]

Community Connection Wednesday, January 24th, 2024 A full slate today on Community Connection! First, Tina follows up on IMPD’s Black History Month badge debacle. Elder Lionel Rush & Attorney Robert Turner return after their press conference with an update on the situation, as well as what the process for the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance looks like […]

Community Connection Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024 Today on Community Connection, Attorney Robert Turner and President of the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance, Elder Lionel Rush stop in to brief us on their upcoming press conference about the ongoing IMPD Black History Month badge fiasco.

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In honor of February being Black History Month, one mom went above and beyond to teach her 5-year-old daughter about the importance of black women throughout history in very a unique way.  Cristi Smith-Jones dressed up her daughter Lola, each day this month, to recreate photos of iconic black women. Smith-Jones posted the photos to her […]

Erica Campbell and GRIFF talk about their contribution to black history.

GETTY IMAGE: Dr. Mattie Moss Clark, the pioneering mother of GRAMMY® winners, The Clark Sisters, is receiving some much-deserved recognition from her granddaughter during Black History Month. Gospel singer Kierra Sheard has written an open letter to the legendary matriarch whom she rightly refers to as “a black history legend.” “I wish you were here […]

Black History Month is officially upon us and Google has kicked it off like they do each year—with a special Google Doodle. This time the tech giant put the spotlight on little-known, but groundbreaking artist Edmonia Lewis. The Doodle depicts Lewis sculpting one of her most famous works, The Death of Cleopatra, which is currently on display […]

@kwellscomm  @PraiseIndy PraiseIndy.com News  — Good day to you on this first day of Black History Month…see a black history nugget below in sports. Job growth and ending a food desert is what’s on the menu to feed the Avondale Meadows neighborhood as a Sav-A-Lot grocery store is set to open on Thursday, according to WTHR-TV. […]