- He mentored "Soul Train" host Don Cornelius when the TV icon first got started in broadcasting.
- He grew up in the Ida B. Wells housing project in Bronzeville (in the Douglas area around IIT). As a child he became interested in radio, building makeshift devices out of toilet paper rolls, crystals, wires, and earphones.
- He taught broadcasting and communications at Chicago State University on the Far South Side.
- He got his first job in radio while he was a student at Hyde Park High School, hosting a classical music program for WBEZ.
- He was the longest-running DJ in the history of radio and a fixture on Chicago airwaves for more than 70 years.
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