Black Music Month 2017

“Women have played a major role in shaping our musical culture, they were hidden artists, producers, managers, directors, and industry pioneers.”  You hear her on Philly Speaks on 100.3 WRNB, but keep you informed on the airwaves is only one small percentage of Tiffanie Standard’s resume. As her IG profile puts it: The “Connector” 🔌👉🏾Serial Entrepreneur […]

It’s African-American Appreciation Month and sometimes even we get stumped by a musical question. Last week on “Arsenio Hall Monday,” we became consumed by Childish Gambino’s hit “RedBone” because it doesn’t include the word redbone in the lyrics. Given the actual lyrics, a more fitting name obviously would have been “Stay Woke.” Arsenio thought that […]

“Women have played a major role in shaping our musical culture, they were hidden artists, producers, managers, directors, and industry pioneers.”  Throughout the entire month of June, Radio One Philadelphia will be rolling out our exclusive HER Bold Stories Series featuring those on air and behind the scenes here at the station! For our our […]

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Black Music Month originated in 1979. Jimmy Carter proclaimed the month of June as Black Music Month to celebrate the wonderful music, the  achievements, births, important timelines, events and to remember those we lost.

Senator Kamala Harris has rolled out a lit playlist to celebrate African-American Music Month, and you need to hear it. When she’s not working to make this nation a better place (and causing Jeff Session to shake in his boots), Kamala loves to listen to music. She decided to share some of her favorite jams […]

It’s hard to fathom that it’s been five years since the music world lost Whitney Houston, and almost two years since daughter Bobbi Kristina died. Now a new forthcoming documentary hopes to paint a different, more humane picture of Houston. In the Showtime documentary “Can I Be Me?’ performance footage and interviews from those who […]

The mother of Black Music Month, the co-creator, CEO, artist development, radio host, just to name a few, Dyana Williams sat down for our latest feature for our HER Bold Story Series! She discusses her biggest career obstacles, advice she wish she could give her younger self, advice for today’s media, and her BOLDEST move […]

There are some artists who transcend time and some who transcend their physical presence on the earthly plane. These artists died too soon and in ways so completely unexpected that we mourn their loss to this day. These were the tremendous, iconic talents who in their varying ways, touched millions with their creative gifts. We […]

  Her Bold Music Series  Karen Vaughn sat down with the cast of the Motown Musical to discuss the powerful women from MOTOWN and their impacts on the culture then and now! Not only did they have some fun, they dropped some major gems about some of your favorite muscians!   If you missed our […]

“Women have played a major role in shaping our musical culture, they were hidden artists, producers, managers, directors, and industry pioneers.”  Throughout the entire month of June, Radio One Philadelphia will be rolling out our exclusive HER Bold Stories Series featuring those on air and behind the scenes here at the station! In week one, […]

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Black Music Month originated in 1979.  President Jimmy Carter proclaimed the month of June as Black Music Month to celebrate the wonderful music, the achievements, births, important timelines, events and to remember those we lost.

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Black Music Month originated in 1979.  President Jimmy Carter proclaimed the month of June as Black Music Month to celebrate the wonderful music, the achievements, births, important timelines, events and to remember those we lost.