Remember The Heroes
@kwellscomm TLCNaptown.com News & Sports For many alumni and those with ties to Indy’s famed historically all-Black Crispus Attucks High School, today is a very special day. The documentary Attucks: The School That Opened a City premieres this evening at the Madame Walker Theatre downtown on Indiana Avenue. The school was built in the 1920’s during […]
Tuesday, July 26 2016 will always be remembered as a day that we lost a member of our family. Pastor Michael Jones was not just an on-air personality for AM1310 The Light, he was a voice for the community, a consoler for the community, and a man of faith for the community. After the passing […]
(Click the photo/tweet above to see full image.) Music lovers and a caring community bid farewell over the weekend to Jazz great David Baker. Baker served as a distinguished professor of music and Jazz Studies Department chair emeritus at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. He died on March 26 at his home in Bloomington at the […]
The Indianapolis community gathered on Saturday with family, friends, and colleagues to celebrate the life of community leader and broadcaster–our own–Amos Brown. Funerals often are sad occasions, particularly when a person is beloved or a person is ripped away suddenly without warning, as was the case on both fronts with the late-host of the popular […]
Memorial services are being planned in New Jersey and Texas for one of the original Tuskeegee airmen. Calvin Spann died Sunday at his home near Dallas at the age of 90. Spann grew up in Rutherford, New Jersey. He volunteered for the Army Air Corps and flew 26 combat missions over Nazi Germany in the […]
An icon of the Civil Rights Movement will be buried at sea. Julian Bond who was chairman emeritus of the NAACP and a founder of both the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is going to be cremated and his family will scatter his ashes at sea this Saturday in a […]
The visitation and funeral service for former Indiana Congressman Andy Jacobs Jr. takes place Friday morning in the Rotunda of the Statehouse. Jacobs died peacefully at home, surrounded by family and friends on December 28th. The casket will arrive at 10am immediately followed by a viewing for family. Then the visitation will open to the public. The funeral […]
53 years ago, most of the world was viewed in black and white. Much of the nation was against the integration of schools. Then, an innocent little black girl who thought the yelling and throwing of objects was just a part of a Mardi Gras celebration walked alongside four U.S. Federal Marshals as they escorted […]
Hall of fame baseball player Willie Mays was Rookie of the Year in 1951. The next year he was drafted into active duty. He served in the Korean War with the U.S. Army. Boxer Joe Louis enlisted in the Army during WWII where he helped ease racial tensions in military units. He received the Legion […]
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