Successful producer, and ex-wife of singer Babyface, Tracey Edmonds says that while she likes ABC’s “Scandal,” one diverse show on a major network isn’t sufficient…
Radio-One Employees… All, As the celebration of Black History Month comes to a close, we thought it appropriate to use this day to acknowledge, celebrate and honor members of our Radio One Family who have passed away in the past year. We lost seven beloved members of our family; all of them taken from us […]
Shirley Ann Jackson was born August 5, 1946 in Washington D.C. Her parents strongly valued education and encouraged her in school. At Roosevelt High School, Jackson attended accelerated programs in both math and science, and graduated in 1964 as valedictorian. Jackson began classes at MIT in 1964, one of fewer than 20 African-American students and […]
A brand new infographic highlights just how white and male the Academy Awards really are. According to research by book publisher Lee & Low, since the…
Neil deGrasse Tyson was born October 5, 1958 in Manhattan and was raised in the Bronx. Tyson attended the Bronx High School of Science where he was captain of the wrestling team and editor-in-chief of the school’s Physical Science Journal. He obsessively studied astronomy in his teens, and eventually even gained some fame in the […]
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm was born on November 30, 1924 in Brooklyn, New York. At age three Chisholm was sent to Barbados to live with her maternal grandmother where she attended the Vauxhall Primary School. She did not return to New York until roughly seven years later. Chisholm graduated from the Girls’ High School, […]
Forest Steven Whitaker was born July 15, 1961 in Longview, Texas. He was awarded The NAACP Chairman’s Award at the 45th NAACP Image Awards this past Saturday. His acceptance speech can be seen here. http://www.tvoneonline.com/shows/45th-naacp-image-awards/video/image-awards–forest-whitaker-s-amazing-speech.html. Whitaker moved to Carson, California when he was four. He attended Cal Poly Pomona on a football scholarship, but due to a […]
McKinley Jones was born in Covington, Kentucky, near Cincinnati, Ohio, on May 17, 1893. He served in France in World War I. After he returned home he worked as a garage mechanic, and with this experience, he developed a self-starting gasoline motor. His mastery of electronic devices was largely self-taught, through work experience and the […]
Edward Alexander Bouchet was born in 1852 in New Haven, Connecticut. At that time there were only three schools in New Haven open to Black children. Bouchet was enrolled in the Artisan Street Colored School which had only one teacherand she nurtured Bouchet's academic abilities. He attended the New Haven High Schoolfrom 1866 to 1868 […]
Friday, some of the entertainment industry’s top black public relations experts joined Roland Martin to break down the business of getting exposure for black clients…
