Hal Jackson, Black Radio Legend, Dies at 96
Webster’s defines an icon as “any person or thing that is revered.”
That was Hal Jackson. The pioneering WBLS radio personality died yesterday at age 96. His cause of death was not released, but Jackson had a short illness.
Jackson maintained his Sunday Classics show, on the air as recently as a couple of weeks ago. He hosted the program with Clay Berry and Deborah Bolling Jackson, known to listeners as Debi B., or simply Jackson’s wife for 23 years.
“He was a big proponent of passing [information],” Skip Dillard, WBLS
program director, tells FishbowlNY.
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