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A free event to connect young minority males with professional male mentors in our community gets underway on Saturday, Sept 20. It’s called the Kings Feast Symposium. Organizer, the Bloom Project, Inc., hopes to make an impact on impressionable males between the ages of 12 and 18, their parents and professional men in this fourth annual […]
It’s celebration day for the Jackie Robinson West All-Stars. Chicago is holding a rally in Jackie Robinson Park Wednesday morning and is hosting a parade for the National Champions winding from Chicago’s South Side to downtown, ending at Millennium Park on the city’s lakefront in a final rally. The all-African American team, hailing from the city’s South Side won […]
“NBC News” is investigating the death of a young African American man at the hands of police that is reminiscent of the 1987 death, here in Indy, of 16-year-old Michael Taylor. Taylor was shot in the head as he sat in the back of an Indianapolis police cruiser with his hands cuffed behind his back. Taylor’s death was […]
After criticism for not getting involved and engaged in the battle to reduce crime in Indianapolis, the business community has come to the table. Eli…
In a week when America and the world was looking at one city’s police department that didn’t reach…
After a summer of increasing concern about Indianapolis violence, and after mixed messages on crime fighting were sent by the Ballard Administration, Mayor Greg Ballard…
Some feel that the crime rate is rising and situations are getting out of control simply because there is not enough Law Enforcement active and…
The age old topic that raises the ire as well as more questions is the “Stop Snitching” code that is in full effect mostly in…
One solution that gets tossed out a lot is mentoring. Some feel that mentors will solve all and have just as much as an effect…
The violence in Indianapolis has seemingly reached an all time high and everyone wants to know, what do we do to curb it? An affected…
Monument Circle in the Heart of Downtown is where Indianapolis has come to Celebrate Major Occasions or just to hang out. Saturday, July 12, it…
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Chief Rick Hite appealed to the community for information about the shooting of seven people in Broad Ripple the night of July 4th and early morning July 5th. Chief Hite also talked about the late Office Perry Renn who was shot and killed in the line of duty on Saturday, July 5, […]