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This week marks the launch of Streetz 95.1/105.1 HD 2, billed as featuring the hottest current and upcoming hip hop and R&B artists, Robert Feder writes.
While its website remains under construction, the station announced its debut on Facebook Wednesday.
Headlining the station is rap artist Yung Joc, star of VH1 s Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta whose given name is Jasiel Amon Robinson.
With him as co-hosts of the syndicated Streetz Morning Takeover are Mz Shyneka & Shawty Shawty.
Veteran radio programmer Steve Hegwood, whose Atlanta-based Core Radio Group has been expanding its hip hop Streetz brand on HD2 signals and translators across the country, is behind the venture.
Kamala Harris says she feels a “very big sense of responsibility” as the country’s first African American, first Asian American and first female vice president.
“I’ll be thinking about my mother. I’ll be thinking about all those girls and boys,” Harris said, speaking exclusively to “Good Morning America” co-anchor
Robin Roberts in an interview that aired Wednesday. “I feel a very I don’t want to say heavy weight in a way that it sounds like a burden. But I feel– a very big sense of responsibility.”
Roberts asked Harris, “In four years from now, if you were to look back as your role as vice president. What will be your definition of success?”
On the Tuesday, December 15 edition of “
Tamron Hall,” Tony-nominated actress and Broadway legend
Sheryl Lee Ralph joined Tamron to help celebrate military families during “HALLelujah it’s the holidays – a week of gifts galore” with a special holiday mashup of “Go Tell It on the Mountain” and “We Wish You a Merry Christmas.”
Sheryl also discussed her Audible project, “Redefining DIVA 2.0: Life Lessons from The Original Dreamgirl” and shared her gratitude for military families.
She said: “To anyone who is in service to this country, let me tell you, they will never get all that they truly deserve. One, to be the kind of person that says, I will lay my life down for my country and its people – you should never be hungry, you should never be without a home, you should never be without healthcare. You should have everything you deserve for the rest of your life for committing to save my life, whenever it’s needed.”
There’s no question. The year 2020 will be remembered for consistent twists and turns, ranging from a game-changing pandemic to a divided United States of America, not to mention a public radar full of activism.
Politically speaking, an epic voter turnout spoke volumes, with numbers not seen in more than a century. Yes, online efforts (most notably, social media) factored heavily into folks casting their ballot in person and via mail. But it was a long-forgotten medium that rose to the same level with reaching the masses in this crucial election year.
That medium? In a word: Radio.
Online activism may be the latest mobilizer, but this year proved the airwaves are alive and still kicking in making a statement for all to hear.