With the recent resignation of NAACP President Ben Jealous (pictured), the organization finds itself looking for new leadership. In the organization’s 104-year history, a woman…
In a surprise move, NAACP President Benjamin Jealous, 40, has announced that he is stepping down from the position in January, 2014, reports USA Today.…
US Attorney General Eric Holder faces a tough decision as civil rights group petition the Department of Justice to press federal civil rights charges against…
In true GOP revisionist fashion, right-wing extremist Glenn Beck called the NAACP a ājokeā and claims that the organization is an āaffrontā to civil rights…
Ā The NAACP (pictured above is their student chapter) is launching a campaign in North Carolina, challenging a series of government-sponsored proposals that some say…
CNNās John King has taken to Twitter to further explain his erroneous report of an arrest in the Boston Marathon bombing. āSource of that description…
This is Troy Davis. He was charged for the murder or police officer Mark MacPhail in 1989 and executed in 2011. Davis maintained his innocence…
In an interview with David Gregory on Meet The Press, NAACP President Ben Jealous (pictured) said that Black Americans “are doing far worse” under the…
With justĀ one dayĀ to goĀ beforeĀ theĀ presidential election on Sunday African-American church leaders fired up their congregations to exercise their right to vote. Rev. Samuel Mosteller, assistant pastor ofĀ Atlantaās Good Shepherd Community Church, told theGrio, though he didnāt deliver the morning sermon, he made a special announcement urging his parishioners to cast their ballots. āI want 100 percent […]
How do we improve Indianapolis schools and preschools? Afternoons with Amos turned itself into a special two hour Town Hall where listeners could share their views on making both K-12 and preschool better for African-American and all children. The special broadcast was part of the effort by What’s Possible Indy a collaboration wit between the […]
UPDATED WITH VICE-PRESIDENT’S SPEECH: Don’t take the words of the soundbites from the local or national TV. Hear exactly what Vice President Joe Biden and Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney said to the delegates of the National NAACP Convention Wednesday in Houston. Hear the speech, the applause, the cheers, the silence and the boos for […]
Shock. anger, disgust, disappointment. That’s just some of the reactions of Indianapolis Black community leaders and Afternoons with Amos listeners to the bombshell announcement of more scandal and malfeasance in the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.Ā IMPD Chief Paul Ciesielski has been forced to resign. The head of the Department’s internal affairs division has been placed […]
