Created with good intention, Detroit, MI-based Sports Rap Radio has been shut down. “[This is] history-making,” Parker told CBS News at the time. “[It’s] groundbreaking, [and] we just believe that the ...

Less than 90 days after its launch, Detroit-based Sports Rap Radio, touted as the nation’s first sports-talk radio station completely owned by and featuring African American talent, has come to an end ...

I’ll never forget how my big brother Dave used to scan the dial on our stereo after WILD 1090 AM stopped broadcasting for the day. WILD or AM109, as people often referred to it, had a tiny transmitter ...

Two of 2015’s hottest records came from cities that rarely—close to never—get scanned for producing the next big hit. Louisville, Kentucky native Bryson Tiller’s “Don’t” gained him instant pop star ...

“Just four years ago, there were no Black full-time sports hosts on the radio in Detroit,” Parker said. “In a city that’s nearly 80% Black, I looked at that as a problem.” Joining Parker in ownership ...

Local hip-hop radio could learn a lot from the shopping mall. In recent months, The Streets at Southpoint, the sprawling 1.3-million-square-foot emporium a dozen miles from downtown Durham, has ...

A landmark event in Black history — no, scratch that, American history — will take place in our city Monday morning. And you can listen in. Sports Rap Radio, the nation’s first sports-talk radio ...

A telling bumper occasionally pops up on our No. 1 radio home for hip-hop and R&B here in Baltimore. It identifies the station and then proudly announces that the playlist features “all shades of R&B.