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Congratulations are in order to Radio One DC’s News and Community Affairs Director (Sheila Stewart) named “Black Radio News Director Of  The Year”over the weekend at The Washington Post with The National Black Press Association. Stewart was among notables in the category for “excellence” in journalism and community service. Stewart is a “pillar” in the […]

BALTIMORE, MD–Radio One Founder & Chairperson of the Board, Cathy Hughes, received the Distinguished Civil Rights Advocate Award Wednesday night in Baltimore. The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in conjuction with the National Bar Association awarded Ms. Hughes, who spoke of her commitment to helping the organization safegaurd the right to vote. Read […]

Someone just pissed Oprah off!! Oprah Winfrey was just rejected by Jenny McCarthy, who had signed a development deal in 2009 to create a series for OWN. Jenny is leaving the network and taking her show concept to NBC, a source tells Fox News. “Jenny wasn’t thrilled with the direction that OWN producers were going […]

. At the Southeast Tennis & Learning Center, Camp SETUP offers summer fun and much more to kids in Southeast Washington DC.  For six weeks, they experience the thrill of tackling new challenges, from computers to tennis.  They discover that reading and math can be fun. They grow strong and fit. And they venture beyond […]

A film by Washington, DC resident Regina Griffin, “Brown Babies: The Mischlingskinder Story”,  has been selected as one of four documentaries to be screened at the Black American Film Festival in Miami, FL, July 6-9.  Her documentary directorial debut is a powerful story of the painful plight of biracial, bicultural, and illegitimate children  born to white German women and black American soldiers during postwar occupation Germany. For more information […]