First owned by the Chess brothers, WVON became one of the few African-American-owned radio stations. Pervis Spann, the Blues man, was at the helm. His daughter, Melody Spann Cooper, eventually took ...
A five-part radio documentary series on more than 50 Black women and girls in Chicago who vanished without a trace will air on WVON 1690-AM, the Midway Broadcasting news/talk station. "The Invisible ...