Indiana Black Expo has joined forces with other community partners and Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard to launch the 360 Coalition to address and reduce the crime and poverty that plagues our city. Radio One-Indianapolis’ Kim Wells has the story. Click the media player below to hear more on this new initiative. ###(@kwellscomm)### kimwellsmedia 061115 @PraiseIndy
The entrepreneur, known as “Indiana’s most successful Black businessman,” William G. “Bill” Mays, died Thursday evening on his 69th birthday. Mays was the owner and founder of Mays Chemical Company and had many other entrepreneurial ventures over the years including radio stations, a television station, golf courses, commercial and residential properties, and the historic Indianapolis Recorder Newspaper—one of the […]
Get In the Know With Kim’s Monday News & Headlines Good morning to you and everyone on this frosty Monday in Indianapolis. The Department of Public Works says crews have been out since yesterday treating and plowing the roads. Up to four inches was expected through Monday morning. A real-time map of what streets are being cleared and […]
A week into the New Year 2014, President Maggie Lewis, Vice-President John Barth and Majority Leader Monroe Gray, the leaders of the Indianapolis City-County Council majority appeared on Afternoons with Amos to talk frankly about several major issues. First off they addressed residents concerns about problems with snow removal. While saluting the long hours and […]
Indianapolis, like many American cities, is suffering this year from an explosion in street violence. Violence, murders and assaults with deadly weapons, has caused Indy homicide rate to be 50% higher this year so far. Now, Indianapolis has joined forty-nine other cities in a unique partnership program to help reduce and end Black-on-Black violence. The […]
