Bronfman, Alejandra. (2019). Radio Wars and Revolution in the Caribbean, 1959. Journal for Media History, 22(2), 87-96. https://doi.org/10.18146/tmg.591
Smith, Chris. A. (2023, December 23). Radio Freedom: A History of South African Underground Radio. The Appendix. https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/100-voices/people-nation-empire/caribbean-voices/
Bronfman, Alejandra. (2019). Radio Wars and Revolution in the Caribbean, 1959. TMG Journal for Media History, 22(2), 87-96. https://doi.org/10.18146/tmg.591
Carol Randolph and Claude Matthews, hosts of Harambee, Washington D.C on a 1971 WTOP TV Ad
The staff of Radio Freedom in Luanda prepare for a broadcast by SWAPO president Sam Nujoma, 1989. University of Cape Town. https://www.historytoday.com/archive/review/turn-tune-fight-back
Barry White sitting with a sound mixer.
First Black radio station operator, Rufus P. Turner, working on an early radio, likely at his W3LF, 1926
The first completely Black owned radio network (The "Mutual Black Network") was purchased by Sheridan Broadcasting Corp (August 29, 1979). It broadcasted an hourly 5 minute newscast and also aired sports and feature programs for one year (in the spring of 1974) along with a 15-minute daily soap opera called Sounds of the City. The Mutual Black Network or MBN was founded by the Mutual Broadcasting System in 1972.
Harold Lee Jackson, the first Black licensed ham radio operator in Canada
Teresa Graves on the cover of The Cincinnati Post's TV Magazine, March 29 - April 4, 1975 issue
Jesse B. Blayton Sr. became the first black radio station owner and operator in the United States when he bought Atlanta radio station WERD in 1949.
Paul Robeson on cover of BBC Radio Times, late Dec. 1933
Cyzewski, Julie. (2021). The “tribal drum” and Literary Radio: The Postcolonial Poetics of the Transcription Centre’s Africa Abroad. Modernism/modernity, 6(1), https://doi.org/10.26597/mod.0197
Pinto, Samantha. (2012, December 17). Decolonizing the Radio: Africa Abroad in the Age of Independence. Sounding Out!. https://soundstudiesblog.com/2012/12/17/decolonizing-the-radio-africa-abroad-in-the-age-of-independence/
1980 Zambia radio card
Clifford Burdette's weekly program Those Who Have Made Good premiered on WNYC on May 11, 1941.
Dorothy Brunson was the first Black woman to own and operate a radio station. She purchased Baltimore station WEBB in 1979 as part of Brunson Communications.
Trudy Haynes became the nation's first African American TV weather reporter for WXYZ-TV in Detroit, MI in 1963. In 1965, she became the first African American TV news reporter for KYW-TV, in Philadelphia, where she continued until her retirement in 1999.
Soul! host Ellis Haizlip takes a break from interviewing Kathleen Cleaver of the Black Panthers while a sound engineer checks the mic. Photo by Chester Higgins Jr.
The SOUL Show on Channel 13, Produced by Ellis Haizlip 1972-1975. Courtesy of Shoes in the Bed Productions.
A Radio-Niger Broadcaster, 1960.
In 1922, Jack L. Cooper (1889-1970), Black radio pioneer and ventriloquist, emulated vaudevillian Bert Williams's comedy routine, which enabled him to claim that he was "the first four Negroes on radio".
Nat D. Williams at the mic, interviewing for WDIA. Dr. Ernest C. Withers, Sr. courtesy of the Withers Family Trust.
Rufus Thomas, circa 1970. Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Oprah Winfrey puts her feet up as she relaxes in her office following a morning broadcast in Chicago, Ill., Dec. 18, 1985.
Bacon-Bercey with her aunt, Hortense Sapp, on the day she graduated from UCLA in 1954. Courtesy Dail St. Claire. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/remembering-june-bacon-bercey-pioneering-african-american-meteorologist-180973933/
Bacon-Bercey speaking at an AAAU Women's luncheon. Courtesy Dail St. Claire. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/remembering-june-bacon-bercey-pioneering-african-american-meteorologist-180973933/
Richard Durham, writer and producer of Destination Freedom, a weekly radio program that aired on WMAQ in Chicago. The program aired from 1948 to 1950 which highlighted histories of African Americans like Harriet Tubman. Image of Richard Durham sitting at his typewriter. https://www.aaihs.org/history-memory-and-the-power-of-black-radio/
A short snippet of the anti-apartheid song, Kea Rona (It Is Ours) on Radio Freedom, an underground radio arm of the African National Congress.
Barlow, William. (1999). Voice Over: The Making of Black Radio. Temple University Press.
June Bacon-Bercey on Buffalo's WGR-TV, where she became the first African American female meteorologist to forecast the weather on television. Courtesy Dail St. Claire. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/remembering-june-bacon-bercey-pioneering-african-american-meteorologist-180973933/
Left, a headshot of Bacon-Bercey. Right, posing on her Buffalo apartment terrace while working at WGR TV. Maurice Seymour; Courtesy of Dail St. Claire. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/remembering-june-bacon-bercey-pioneering-african-american-meteorologist-180973933/
Black Journal. Episode 15 devoted to apartheid in South Africa. Host : William Greaves & Lou House Panelist : Charles Hamilton, Bluden Jackson, Blyden Jackson, Keorapetse, Peter Molotsi,
''PowerNomics'' 1995 Detroit Black Journal Full Episode
Jesse Jackson with the “Black Journal” host Tony Brown, in 1976.
America's Black Forum
America's Black Forum Episode 21 still
America's Black Forum
BBC News. “Dorothy Butler Gilliam: ‘I am Not a Maid, I Am a Reporter’.” Image:HARRY NALTCHAYAN, WASHINGTON POST August 22, 2021. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-58259503
BBC News. “Dorothy Butler Gilliam: ‘I am Not a Maid, I Am a Reporter’.” Image DOROTHY BUTLER GILLIAM. August 22, 2021. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-58259503.
BBC News. “Dorothy Butler Gilliam: ‘I am Not a Maid, I Am a Reporter’.” Image "Dorothy Butler Gilliam pictured with West Point graduates, while working for the Louisville Defender in about 1954". August 22, 2021. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-58259503.
Simi Jolaoso, “Barbara Blake Hannah: The First Black Female Reporter on British TV,” BBC News, October 23, 2020, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-54623417.
Simi Jolaoso, “Barbara Blake Hannah: The First Black Female Reporter on British TV,” Image: Barbara Blake Hannah (right) modelling a designer's clothes. BBC News, October 23, 2020, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-54623417.
London label and NTS Radio show Death Is Not The End has curated clips of the UK's first Black-owned pirate radio station. via https://ra.co/news/75501
DJ Robert L. Scott in booth at Black-owned KYAC radio station, Seattle, May 1975. Courtesy of Seattle’s Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI), Cary W. Tolman Collection. via https://www.kuow.org/stories/remembering-kyac-the-seattle-black-owned-radio-station-that-felt-like-home
Heffernan, Anne. “Hot 103 Jamz, America’s Longest-Running Black-Owned Radio Station.” KCUR, 17 May 2022. https://www.kcur.org/arts-life/2022-05-17/hot-103-jamz-americas-longest-running-black-owned-radio-station Image: Courtesy Of Carter Broadcast Group
Heffernan, Anne. “Hot 103 America’s Longest-Running Black-Owned Radio Station.” KCUR, 17 May 2022. https://www.kcur.org/arts-life/2022-05-17/hot-103-jamz-americas-longest-running-black-owned-radio-station Image: Courtesy Of Carter Broadcast Group.
Heffernan, Anne. “Hot 103 Jamz, America’s Longest-Running Black-Owned Radio Station.” KCUR, 17 May 2022. https://www.kcur.org/arts-life/2022-05-17/hot-103-jamz-americas-longest-running-black-owned-radio-station Image: Courtesy Of Carter Broadcast Group.
Heffernan, Anne. “Hot 103 Jamz, America’s Longest-Running Black-Owned Radio Station.” KCUR, 17 May 2022. https://www.kcur.org/arts-life/2022-05-17/hot-103-jamz-americas-longest-running-black-owned-radio-station Image: Courtesy Of Carter Broadcast Group.
"Early DBC DJ's preparing equipment to broadcast a show in the early 80's" via https://dbc1981.com/pages/archive
via https://dbc1981.com/pages/archive
"The first commissioned Radio Flyer here, the artwork here by Jerry Neville." via https://dbc1981.com/pages/archive
Archives of African American Music and Culture, Bala Baptiste Collection, 1946-2013, via https://aaamc.indiana.edu/Collections/Bala-Baptiste
Archives of African American Music and Culture, Black Radio : Telling It Like It Was, circa 1920s-1997 1991-1995 https://aaamc.indiana.edu/Collections/Black-Radio-Telling-It-Like-It-Was
Archives of African American Music and Culture, Deborah Smith Pollard Collection, 1979-2015 https://aaamc.indiana.edu/Collections/Deborah-Smith-Pollard
Archives of African American Music and Culture, Ed Castleberry Collection, 1951-1999 https://aaamc.indiana.edu/Collections/Ed-Castleberry
Archives of African American Music and Culture,Every Voice and Sing: The Choral Music Legacy of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (radio series), 2007, https://aaamc.indiana.edu/Collections/Every-Voice-and-Sing
Archives of African American Music and Culture, George Nelson Collection, approximately 1950-1982, https://aaamc.indiana.edu/Collections/George-Nelson
Archives of African American Music and Culture, Jack Gibson Collection, 1942-2000, https://aaamc.indiana.edu/Collections/Jack-Gibson
Archives of African American Music and Culture, Jocko Henderson Collection, 1971-2003, https://aaamc.indiana.edu/Collections/Jocko-Henderson
Archives of African American Music and Culture, The Afro-American in Indiana radio series, 1971-1983, https://aaamc.indiana.edu/Collections/The-Afro-American-in-Indiana
Archives of African American Music and Culture, Travis Gardner Collection, approximately 1960s-1970s, https://aaamc.indiana.edu/Collections/Travis-Gardner
Archives of African American Music and Culture, What Must Be Done radio series, 1968, https://aaamc.indiana.edu/Collections/What-Must-Be-Done
Archives of African American Music and Culture, William Barlow Collection (SC 6), https://aaamc.indiana.edu/Collections/William-Barlow
Archives of African American Music and Culture, Wade in the Water: African American Sacred Music Traditions, 1994, https://aaamc.indiana.edu/Collections/Wade-in-the-Water