The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST For Wednesday, July 15, 2015.  (Story Starts at 48:52 Mark On PODCAST Media Player And Continues At 1:09:10 Mark). Afternoons with Amos has learned that Chase, Indiana’s largest bank, with 53 branches alone in Marion County, is closing one-third of their branches located in African-American majority neighborhoods. An action that […]

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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — While millions of struggling homeowners have had to jump through all sorts of hoops trying to refinance their mortgages, Michelle and Bob Irwin barely had to lift a finger. This summer, the couple received a letter from JPMorgan Chase (JPM, Fortune 500), their mortgage servicer, informing them that it was going […]

One of the last holdouts in the onslaught of major corporations seeking to take over the Black-owned media space was the Johnson Publishing Company, which runs Ebony and Jet Magazines. As Essence Magazine, BET and other outlets found themselves running into the arms of a financial white knight, the Johnson family fought hard to maintain […]