How WERD became the first Black-owned radio station in the U.S.
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on November 27, 2023
Paul E.X. Brown provided political commentary and programming at WERD in the 1950s.
Photograph courtesy of Indiana University; Jack Gibson Collection
From Black-owned financial institutions and restaurants to Ebenezer Baptist Church, the NAACP, and the legendary Royal Peacock nightclub, Atlanta’s Black history makers have always made their way to Auburn Avenue. So it should be no surprise that, tucked away in a small brick building on that iconic street, is the site of the first Black . . .
