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A veteran African-American journalist and columnist explores how we, as African Americans, view our president, Barack Obama–the man, the politician, his battles, his burdens, his swagger and more. I recently talked with ‘Black Journalista’ Erin Aubrey Kaplan on Access Indy with Kim Wells on 106.7 WTLC-FM to delve into her latest book, I Heart Obama. Whether one agrees with his […]

Here’s the recipe for the decadent dessert that Celebrity Chef George Duran, known for his Food Network show Ham on the Street and TLC Network’s The Ultimate Cake Off, shared with us on Sunday’s edition of Access Indy with Kim Wells. Chef Duran says it’s perfect to whip up to serve at your own NCAA Tourney party or […]

Indiana Black Expo-hosted project, Your Life Matters, rebrands itself OpportunINDY to continue the work of improving the lives of Indy’s young black males by providing connections to life opportunities and more. Raising black boys into men is no easy task and parents want them to grow up safe, with chances to be their best selves, just like […]

 Our “Legal Eagles” stopped by “Access Indy” Sunday to go Behind The Headlines on the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and the fallout; the alleged sexual assault by Peyton Manning on an athletic trainer years ago; when relatives kill for money as was the case with a double murder in Zionsville where the alleged […]

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is dead. Reports out of San Antonio, Texas say the justice was found dead at a resort in West Texas near the city of Marfa. Scalia, at age 79, was the longest serving justice on the Supreme Court and was known for his extremely conservative views and right-wing decisions. […]

It’s Black History Month and that history is not excluded from the history of the NFL’s big game which celebrates a milestone 50 years at tonight’s Super Bowl in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, pitting the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers in a head to head, winner-take-all match up . A legendary HBCU […]

A community forum is taking place right now in Indy on the northeast side to observe National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day–an event which highlights the importance of education, prevention, testing, treatment, services and advocacy in the Black Community around the issue of HIV/AIDS. Friday’s event is helmed by the Minority Health Coalition of Marion County with […]

Comedic host of The Daily Show with Trevor Noah had some choice words to share with his audience this week in the face of a breaking entertainment story that revealed, actor Joseph Fiennes (of Shakespere in Love fame) had been cast to play the King of Pop, Michael Jackson in an upcoming made-for-TV project in Britain. […]

A check of maintenance records shows that Chicago police officers routinely sabotaged the audio components of their dash cam video systems. DNAinfo reports that 1,800 police maintenance logs show that officer error and “intentional destruction” were responsible for the lack of audio on 80 percent of dash cam videos before a management crackdown last month. The […]

The executive director of the Indiana Broadcasters Association, Dave Arland, joined us on Access Indy with Kim Wells to discuss proposed legislation that is moving quickly and quietly through this short 2016 session of the Indiana Legislature that would limit the public’s right to know by making it more difficult for the press and others to access […]

Scholar, educator Aldon D. Morris is taking us on a historic journey as he helps to rewrite the history of sociology and acknowledges the groundbreaking work of W. E. B. Du Bois’ in the founding of the discipline. In Morris’ latest book, The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology, he calls […]

The Greater Indianapolis Branch of the NAACP ( @IndyNAACP ) is asking tough questions when it comes to the future of Indianapolis Public Schools ( @IPSSchools ) and the educations of the children here in the city. Among the questions is this central one, “Is there a great school in every neighborhood?” In light of the 2015 strategic plan that […]