smaller Upstate NY cities and towns/African American communities

[ckhthankgod]

A professional reference from and still in Troy: https://www.bizjournals.com/albany/n..._news_headline

https://www.linkedin.com/in/starletta-smith-b868b25b/

A business in Rochester: https://www.whec.com/rochester-new-y...744/?cat=13396
https://tooprettytoeat.com/

Albany: https://www.news10.com/news/local-ne...-gun-violence/

[ckhthankgod]

Professional reference in Albany: https://www.bizjournals.com/albany/n..._news_headline

https://www.albany.edu/administration/tamra_minor.php

Also, Jubilee Homes in Syracuse Holds Fundraiser in Past Employee's Honor: https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/ce...ployee-s-honor

[somethang]

Originally Posted by ckhthankgod

Here is another podcast from WWWS 1400 AM/107.3 FM: https://classicrbbuffalo.radio.com/a...casts/episodes

They are quite an excellent R&B station!!!

Thankfully they dont mix any hiphop in.... Big difference between todays hiphop and R&B!!

[ckhthankgod]

Originally Posted by somethang

They are quite an excellent R&B station!!!

Thankfully they dont mix any hiphop in.... Big difference between todays hiphop and R&B!!

If you like that station, you would probably like this station in Syracuse as well: https://power620.iheart.com/

Or this other station in Buffalo: https://www.power965radio.com/

Or this station in Utica: https://www.955theheat.com/#

The last 2 are owned by black women from and still live in those communities.

In other news, Utica: https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/ce...rally-in-utica

Oriskany Falls: https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/ce...oriskany-falls

[somethang]

Thank you for the other stations ckhthankgod...... I have heard 620 and I dont think they are as good as 107.3 is..... I havent heard the other ones you listed there....

[ckhthankgod]

Originally Posted by somethang

Thank you for the other stations ckhthankgod...... I have heard 620 and I dont think they are as good as 107.3 is..... I havent heard the other ones you listed there....

620 AM used to be better before IHeartRadio cut staff.

WUFO plays a mix, which includes a lot of community shows Saturday mornings and church services, sports and cultural shows on Sunday. It is one of the oldest “urban” format stations in the country.

The Heat also plays a mix of music, mainly older. It is only about 3 years old or so.

WDKX in Rochester is also black owned by the same family for about 45 years and is that market’s most listened to station usually. WBLK, another urban format station in Buffalo is also a top 3 station in that area.

Binghamton has WJOB 93.3 run by the Urban League of Broome County, but it skews newer with some gospel on Sundays. I believe this station that on Channel 6 and 87.7 there is also black owned and is still on the air: PASSION RADIO 87.7FM* - Home

Albany also has a couple of urban format stations(WAJZ 96.3 and Hot 99.1).

[ckhthankgod]

Cortland's First Black Business Appreciation Day Celebrates, Empowers Community: https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/ce...wers-community

Given the city’s location in between Syracuse, Ithaca and Binghamton; along with having a SUNY campus, it is likely for the city to be increasingly more culturally diverse in the future. It already has a base due to the college and enough of a year round black population.

A sports reference from Saugerties: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rec...emplate=ampart

https://uri.prestosports.com/sports/....html?view=bio

https://hudsonvalleyone.com/2017/07/...cout-thornton/

[ckhthankgod]

A historical reference related to binghamton: https://www.newyorkalmanack.com/2020...acial-justice/

Keep in mind that this is a city that during his time there was the HQ's for the state's KKK and ironically, it could have possibly been the location of an HBCU, if his institute continued. Here is an ad from the 1912 Crisis, which is the publication for the NAACP, for the institute that he started: https://books.google.com/books?id=4F...titute&f=false

[ckhthankgod]

From Syracuse's Henninger HS: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=...02233544144683

From Newark in Wayne County: https://pickinsplinters.com/2020/08/...tep-in-career/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javon_McCrea

[ckhthankgod]

Here is an article I came across with the descendants of Harriet Tubman that grew up in Syracuse and Frederick Douglass, among some other descendants of people with ties to Upstate NY(Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony): https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...scendants.html

Also, Savage Beauty Clothing Brings Unique Style to Buffalo's Lovejoy Neighborhood: https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/bu...y-neighborhood