Each year, Radio One raises the bar with a powerful speaker of influence to appear at our Women’s Empowerment event. This year we would like to welcome Tyra Banks as our keynote speaker.

The Grammy Award winner’s arresting voice—a favorite staple on the scene since 2003—recently provided the perfect accompaniment to Jill Scott’s earthy vocals on the captivating duet “So in Love.” Their dynamic pairing also set a record: 18 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Urban Adult Contemporary chart, tying with Maxwell for the most consecutive weeks […]

Most people know Jackie Robinson as the man who famously broke baseball’s color barrier when he signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, but what else do you know about Jackie Robinson? Born on January 31, 1919, into a family of sharecroppers in Cairo, Georgia, Robinson’s mother moved the family to Pasadena, California in 1920. […]

This weekend at the N.C Museum of History it was a celebration on life, music and culture at the African American Cultural Festival. Drums, singing and dancing echoed in the halls as many got in touch with their African roots. It was a day with more than 75 presenters with displays featuring quilts, dolls, hand […]

Northerners often depict the South as backwards and racist. During the Civil Rights Movement, the South gave the North plenty of reasons to feel superiors. Snarling dogs, skin bruising water hoses and lynch mobs didn’t help the South’s image. The South’s racism was on full display as African Americans from Virginia to Alabama and beyond […]

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Supermodel turned super mogul Tyra Banks has broken down barriers to become a highly influential figure in media today. Banks established Bankable in 2003, a multi-faceted media and lifestyle company where beauty meets entertainment. She became a pioneer in reality TV as the creator and executive producer of the globally-successful Next Top Model franchise and […]

Raleigh, NC – Radio One of Raleigh presents Women’s Empowerment 2012 on Saturday, March 17th. Women’s Empowerment is a high energy, high profile event that targets African-American women of all ages and is attended by as many as 18,000 Radio One listeners. A presenting sponsor of Women’s Empowerment is Duke Medicine. Women’s Empowerment has empowered, […]

Nicole’s mother, Jahna Sebastian, who also goes by Zhanna Andrianova, is a UK singer and the two shared a “relationship” before (and possibly during?) his marriage to singer Alicia Keys and maybe even his first wife Mashonda. Swizzy, has decided to do the right thing by his baby mama and has finally settled their child […]