Today, Wednesday, May 10th, marks one year on the radio for Inspirational Artist Erica Campbell! As part of the celebration, Erica and her co-host, Griff, receive congratulations and well-wishes from friends and colleagues as well as in-studio guests, like Philly’s own Jermaine Dolly, who’s currently flying up the charts with his latest single, “Come and […]
Everyone remembers the controversial photo, taken in the White House’s Oval Office, of President Trump with a group of presidents of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU’s). Many said at the time that it was no more than a “photo op” with Trump “using” the Black college presidents for political advantage. (say “cheese!”) You’ll probably […]
NFL Football fans the world over will be focused on Philadelphia this week and weekend for the NFL Draft, taking place Thursday, April 27th through Saturday, April 29th in a special 3000 seat open air pavilion constructed right in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Officials expect some 200,000 visitors to converge on the city […]
This is Holy Week, starting with Palm Sunday last Sunday through Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday, which some call Easter Sunday, this Sunday. On Friday, April 7th, the Drama Ministry of Mt. Airy Church of God in Christ presented “Where Jesus Walked,” a play written by John Alexander, which was a perfect precursor to […]
Spoiler Alert? Well, nowadays there are hardly any secrets anymore, but since the program hasn’t aired yet, some folks may not know who the big winners were at this year’s Stellar Awards, hosted by Praise 107.9’s Erica Campbell of Mary Mary and 10 time award winner Anthony Brown, of Anthony Brown and Group TherAPy. ‘Don’t […]
Praise 107.9 morning air personality, Television and Gospel superstar Erica Campbell will co-host this year’s Stellar Awards Ceremony telecast with multiple award winner Anthony Brown of Anthony Brown and Group TherAPy. The broadcast will premiere on Sunday, April 9th at 6pm on TV One.with encores at 8 and 11pm. The top nominees this year are […]
The city of Camden, often embattled, will soon be the site of a new waterfront park on the site of the former Riverfront Prison. The now-vacant site near the foot of the Ben Frankling Bridge will be developed into a four acre park that will join Pyne Point Park with other green waterfront areas. This […]
All the tweet from Eddie Murphy, posted Wednesday night, said was,“Coming to America sequel?” and the “Twitterverse” went nuts! No wonder! The 1988 hit movie “Coming To America” is one of America’s all time favorite movies and can be seen somewhere on TV nearly every weekend! It also grossed over $288 million worldwide! The story […]
Everybody remembers comic Steve Harvey’s colossal blunder at the Miss Universe Pageant last year when he announced the wrong winner. After the huge, historic boo-boo (Let’s call it a “Harvey!”) at the 89th Academy Awards this year, ol’ Steve has to take a back seat to Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway! SOMEBODY gave them the wrong envelope or […]
Jerry Wells here, Praise listeners! Recently I got the opportunity to interview Gary Hines, Musical Director of the Grammy-winning group, Sounds of Blackness! (one of my favorites!) Black History Month Highlights 2017 Their current release, “Royalty,” is in heavy rotation on Praise as well as at radio stations across the country, and is just perfect […]
According to Upper Darby Police, two SEPTA commuter trains collided Tuesday morning at the 69th Street Terminal this morning about 8:30. The incident occured inside the circle of the rail yard. Just a few passengers were the trains involved at the time of the head-on collision. They were not hurt, but there were some SEPTA employees […]
Radio-One Philadelphia Air Personality Lady B is a Philadelphia Living Legend! Well, We all knew it already, but now it’s OFFICIAL! Wendy Clark, better known as Lady B, heard daily on our sister station WRNB, was honored on Thursday with City Council’s “Living Legend” award presented for Black History Month. Also receiving the award were Philadelphia […]