Audio Included in Post. Runs 3 Minutes. ©2011 WTLC/Radio One. Amos caught up with the son of Dr. Martin Luther and Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King III. He was in town for the dedication of renovations and improvements to a nearly one mile stretch of Dr. King Street in the UNWA neighborhood. Hear the […]
Los Angeles, California– Almena Lomax, a civil rights activist and founder of the Los Angeles Tribune died March 25th at 95 years old.
An editorial in this week’s New York Amsterdam News, the legendary Black newspaper of New York, highlights the rise of Rev. Al Sharpton’s storied civil rights organization The National Action Network, which will celebrate its 20th year of operation April 6-9 at their national convention in New York City. Related: NewsOne Columnist Rev. Al Sharpton […]
Audio Included in Post. Runs 8 Minutes. Audio ©2011 WTLC/Radio One. Amos sat down with living world history, Amb. Andrew Young. He marched and worked with Dr. Martin Luther King. Was Mayor of Atlanta, a Congressman and US Ambassador to the United Nations under President Jimmy Carter. Amb. Young was in Indy recently to speak […]
Audio Included in Post. Runs 44 Minutes. Audio ©2011 WTLC/Radio One. Barbara Bolling, the Indiana State NAACP President and Crystal Ratcliffe, President of the Greater Indianapolis NAACP appeared on Afternoons with Amos and talked about what the NAACP is doing about the issues facing the African-American community. They discuss education, jobs, immigration, police abuse of […]
Audio Included in Post. Runs 35 Minutes. Audio ©2011 WTLC/Radio One. The Indiana Civil Rights Commission wants to investigate cases where Hoosier students rights to get an equal education are violated. Commission Executive Director Jamal Smith came to Afternoons with Amos to talk about rights to an equal education. Smith also talked about the other […]
Mississippi-Â Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour drew mixed reactions from analysts on Wednesday for his decision to push for a civil rights museum for his state ahead of a possible presidential bid.
ATLANTA — Stanley Nelson writes for a small weekly newspaper in the Louisiana delta. For the past four years, he has been obsessed with one story: who threw gasoline into a rural shoe repair and dry goods shop in 1964 and started a fire that killed Frank Morris?
Nichelle Nichols made television history as the first African-American woman to play a role in a series in “Star Trek” as Lt. Uhura. She reprised her role in “Star Trek: The Animated Series” and the first six Star Trek movies. It was a moment that couldn’t have been scripted any better. Actress Nichelle Nichols, who […]
BOSTON — A black Harvard surgeon who grew up in segregated Memphis during Jim Crow is set to release a book about his life and his call to end health care disparities.
Audio Included in Post. Runs 36 minutes. Audio©2010 WTLC/Radio One. In an exclusive Afternoons with Amos interview, new US Attorney Joseph Hogsett revealed that Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, will visit Indy early next year to meet with civil rights organizations and other community leaders. Hogsett also […]
Alabama (WAPT)– James Bonard Fowler, a white former state trooper pleaded guilty Monday to a lesser charge in the 1965 shooting death of a black man, Jimmie Lee Jackson, at a civil rights protest, a killing that inspired historic voting rights marches. James Bonard Fowler, 77, entered the plea of misdemeanor second-degree manslaughter two weeks […]
