Truly one of the saddest stories we’ve ever written in The Industry Dot Bizand a lesson to radio DJs and entertainment pros to never leave your fate in the hands of others with the advent of technology. For Black radio djs, the pay has always been less and the tragedies numerious. Hopefully, Laverne’s story is the teacher’s instread of the lesson.
A former St. Louis Radio DJ was forced to eat the peanuts Busch Stadium in St. Louis. When died penniless and sick from an aggressive form of breast cancer on June 3. She lost her job as a popular host of a jazz show on WSIE at Southern Illinois University in 2002. Shortly thereafter, died in 2005.
Holiday lost her health insurance and was then diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer. She fought cancer while trying to get back on the air. She was very eager to get back on the air friends stated but Robin Boyce. Radio is a hard business,
