The first black radio announcer was the legendary Jack L. Cooper, who first appeared on the Chicago airwaves in 1929 with a show called “The All-Negro Hour” on WSBC. By the late ’30s, this one hour of black radio had expanded to 10 hours a week. At this time Cooper’s show, according to some estimates, extended into “half the black homes in Chicago.” When Nat D. Williams made his first appearance at WDIA in 1948, WSBC was already devoting nearly 20 hours a week to black programming. In addition, Cooper’s production company had an estimated 150 shows on numerous other stations at the time. [Click Here To Read More]
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