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Percy was a tireless advocate for African Americans' economic rights. In 1971 he bought WLIB-AM. It became the first black-owned radio station in the city. He had to go to 62 banks to get the money for it. His belief was that radio was the only way blacks running for office could get their message out. After the Apollo Theater's lights went out in 1975, Percy invested $250,000 to help revive the institution...
...somewhere on the dial you can find liberals (like Mike Malloy of Atlanta's WSB), black nationalists (including several hosts on New York's WLIB) and a few leftists. Tammy Bruce, a lesbian feminist and head of the Los Angeles chapter of NOW, works weekends on Los Angeles' KFI. Jim Hightower, a folksy, funny Texas populist who is nearly as quick to criticize Clinton as he is the right wing, graces 180 stations...
...whites feel a need to make all black leaders speak out whenever one black says something stupid. "People are deeply offended that whites always seem to feel that they have to tell black people what to object to, what to condemn," says Clayton Riley, a talk-show host on WLIB, a black radio station in New York City. "There is no comparable kind of instruction to whites...
That was one of the few times anybody ever fired Billy Taylor, but only one of many occasions on which he could be accused of giving jazz a good name. As a disk jockey for Harlem's WLIB, Taylor in the early 1960s developed such a following of listeners (and advertisers) that he could schedule five straight hours of Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane or "anybody who in those days was considered far out." In 1969 he became the first black music director of a major TV program, the David Frost Show. "O.K., Billy!" was the cue with which Frost...
...songs, the gospel-flavored I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free (1954), is used at many civil rights gatherings and black school commencements, and has been published in several church hymnals. Taylor is also a member of a black syndicate that recently bought WLIB, making it New York's first black-owned station. With two other black men Taylor last year also bought WSOK in Savannah...