I first found Mr. E. Rodney Jones on the back of a cassette. It was the back of the album: War Live  UA-CA193-J to be specific. (By the way,...

 The book Airwaves of New York makes a passing reference to the Black Panther party having its own radio program on WLIB-AM in 1969, ...

DJ Spotlight was a section in the Rhythm & Blues section of Billboard Magazine. Their Rhythm & Blues section itself goes back to a...

The radio metro Atlantic City - Cape May is a mixed market. The chart is a top 15 and in addition to local stations, a third of the lis...

The first African American to build a radio station was Frederick McKinley Jones. He hailed from the small town of Hallock, MN. How small...

On November 3rd of 1947, the Chicago Tribune quoted the legendary Ebony magazine article " Sixteen Sepia Spielers " and humble br...

I've never found the original article, but it's referenced in a few books and one very notable Billboard article by Nelson George ...

It starts on page 23 of the 33⅓ book,  Live At The Apollo by Douglas Wolk. The historic arguably epic James Brown album was ostensibly r...

Even the great Jerry Blavat called John Bandy an influence.  But before Bandy was in the Philadelphia area, he was a DJ in DC. In the boo...

 Ethel Waters was an American blues, jazz and gospel vocalist; active between 1919 and 1959. She died on September 1, 1977, aged 80 from c...

I have written often about the beginnings of black radio: the first appearances of African Americans in broadcasts that also demographica...

Reading makes you smarter. Decades ago when I first read Fahrenheit 451 , I overlooked a radio reference in this classic American text. In...