Celebrate Black excellence in the DMV on April 5 with the Portraits of Excellence (PORT) Fine Arts Honor Awards. Honorees include Ben's Chili Bowl co-founder.

Black Press Day celebrates 198 years of African American publishing and storytelling, with a call to action for truth, ...

WEMU first took to the airwaves, and it was quite a different station than the one you know today. The origin story is ...

Previously, Nikki has worked on-air at WHUR-FM in DC, 1090 WILD and Magic 106.7 in Boston. One of the highlights of her career was helping to conceptualize and execute the "Neo-Soul" channel ...

The quiet storm format was created in the mid-1970s by radio pioneer Cathy Hughes and on-air personality Melvin Lindsey at Howard University’s WHUR-FM in Washington, DC. It featured love songs and ...

Howard University’s Alternative Spring Break program received a major financial boost from WHUR listeners, who donated more than $45,000 during the station’s Annual Helping Hands Radiothon ...

Jennifer Lopez and Jennifer Garner reportedly don’t have any bad blood — despite the “Alias” star spending more time with their mutual ex-husband, Ben Affleck. “They have really found a ...

Mineral Boss Records chief executive officer Tawanna Jones is banking on her latest release, Enemies, a combination between dancehall star Beenie Man and singer Tony Curtis, to become a mainstream ...

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For more than 50 years, WHUR has been broadcasting to listeners in the U.S. capital from Howard University, a historically black institution. A commercial station owned by the university ...

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