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The Ghetto: Five Years of Black Radio, 1975

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Mike McNamee/The Tech
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Article
Timeline
1970s
MIT Affiliation
Student

Created and run by Black Students' Union members, The Ghetto was a soul-music radio show that gained popularity in the Cambridge/Boston area. Show creators Waayl Ahmad Salih ’72, SM/EAA ‘73 (aero-astro major and future physician) and James “JC” Clark ’76, SM '81 named The Ghetto radio show after Donny Hathaway’s 1970 song. Their faculty advisor was longtime MIT electrical-engineering professor Amar Bose ‘51, founder of the Bose company.

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