Woodstock, the music festival that defined a generation, took place from Aug. 15-18, 1969, at a dairy farm in Bethel, N.Y. Officially known as the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, approximately 500,000 ...

Is love at first laugh a thing? When realtor and entrepreneur Rashida Miller first met Nathaniel Stroman, otherwise known as comedian Earthquake, the funnyman was in his element. It was 14 years ago ...

The R&B world has been rocked by tragedy in 2025. From legends and icons to stars gone far too young, it has been a heartbreaking year. Randy Brown joined sadly joined the long list of those who died ...

Actor Barbara Bain (TV’s “Mission: Impossible”) is 94. Singer David Clayton-Thomas of Blood, Sweat and Tears is 84. Actor Jacqueline Bisset is 81. Singer Peter Cetera (Chicago) is 81. Actor Christine ...

FILE – In this April 27, 2016 file photo, Tavis Smiley appears at the 33rd annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards in Los Angeles. PBS says it has suspended distribution of Smiley’s talk show after an ...

Tavis Smiley, author of The Covenant With Black America- Twenty Years Later, weighs in on the days political headlines. Smiley is the owner of KBLA Talk 1580, broadcasting out of historic Leimert Park ...

Robbie Pardlo might not be a name that music fans immediately recognize, but there was a time in the early 2000s when he and his group, City High, were on the charts. And the group was all over MTV ...

The versatile, restless, maddeningly guileful artist Rashid Johnson—whose career-spanning survey exhibition, “A Poem for Deep Thinkers,” is now up at the Guggenheim, inhabiting almost the entire ...

KBLA Talk 1580 Kicks off New Weekday Schedule Featuring Tavis Smiley, Cornel West, Jesse Jackson Jr., and D.L. Hughley Station boasts the nation’s most audacious line-up of Black talk media hosts ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--KBLA Talk 1580 today announced a bold new weekday line-up of some the nation’s most progressive and provocative voices beginning Monday, January 6, 2025, a date that will ...

KBLA Talk 1580 has a bold lineup of Black male figureheads leading its weekday schedule in 2025. KBLA Talk 1580 has a robust lineup of Black male figureheads leading the station throughout the week in ...

Radio host and entertainment reporter Robin Ayers is dead at age 44. The KBLA 1580 Talk personality died on Thursday, December 5. A cause of death has not been announced. “On behalf of her precious ...