Award-winning author and film producer Evie Rhodes has written several books about the tragedies and senseless violence in our communities. Her most recent novel turned movie, Expired, highlights a mother’s struggle to cope with the death of her son. On May 20th, Rhodes’ 24-year-old son James Rhodes, was shot and killed in Camden, New Jersey. This tragic […]
This past weekend, the brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha, a historic Black fraternity, took to the streets of Chicago and held steadfast in the midst…
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Peggy Hubbard, a St. Louis mother now living in Rockford, Ill., posted a Facebook video rant railing against the #BlackLivesMatter movement last Thursday. The video…
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EXCLUSIVE UPDATE: Dr. David Hampton, Senior Pastor-elect of Light of the World talked live to Afternoons with Amos about the reasons for Sunday’s protest and arrests outside his church. It was the biggest display of civil disobedience by an Indianapolis church in many years as thirteen […]
An annual study released on Wednesday revealed that Missouri leads the nation in the highest homicide rates for African Americans for the second year in a row. The study, performed by the Violence Policy Center in Washington, has placed the state at the top of the list three times in the past five years. SEE […]
Across the nation, Black men are killing each other at an alarming rates and the problem is only getting worse, Annette John-Hall of the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. SEE ALSO: Terrence Howard’s Nasty Divorce Teen Beaten Unconscious Over Bus Seat While John-Hall reports that black males killing black males are a national issue, she uses her […]
A restaurant in Pittsburgh is being criticized for a flavor of chicken wings called “Black On Black Crime,” WPXI reports. Big Shot Bob’s is more popularly known for its 100 different flavors of wings, but it was the “black on black crime” wing flavor that generated the negative publicity. Channel 11 first learned about the […]
<strong>Audio Included in Post. Audio ©2010 WTLC/Radio One.</strong> Here is Part One of Friday's special Afternoons with Amos as a cross section of community leaders - ministers, City-County Council members, mayoral candidates, grass roots activists - gathered for a wide ranging discussion of the controversial beating of a 15-year-old Black youth by white IMPD officers. Not only was the beating discussed, but IMPD's training, lack of advancement for minority officers, lack of hiring minority officers, mistrust of police by the community. Also discussed were strategies for dealing with rising Black-on-Black crime.
<strong>Audio Included in Post. Audio ©2010 WTLC/Radio One.</strong> Here is Part Two of Friday's special Afternoons with Amos as a cross section of community leaders - Deputy Mayor Olgen Williams, ministers, City-County Council members, mayoral candidates, grass roots activists - gathered for a wide ranging discussion of the controversial beating of a 15-year-old Black youth by white IMPD officers. Not only was the beating discussed, but IMPD's training, lack of advancement for minority officers, lack of hiring minority officers, mistrust of police by the community. Also discussed were strategies for dealing with rising Black-on-Black crime.
