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The winner of this year s Readers’ Choice Award is Drake Rasnic of Mount Hope. His story, “Cheese World, will be made into an animated production by West Virginia Public Broadcasting. Shown here in the center of the audience, he reacts to seeing a special preview of the animation during the awards ceremony for the 2021 PBS Kids Writers Contest at the Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences in Charleston, West Virginia.
Nineteen children from across the Mountain State have earned top writing awards in West Virginia Public Broadcasting’s 2021 PBS Kids Writers Contest.
Winners received certificates, prizes, cupcakes and were treated to special entertainment during a private awards ceremony for parents and their aspiring young authors and illustrators at the Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences in Charleston last weekend.
William ‘Cody’ Anderson, legendary Philadelphia Black radio host and former executive, has died Valerie Russ, The Philadelphia Inquirer
William “Cody” Anderson, 78, an iconic leader in Black radio in Philadelphia for decades, died Saturday, Feb. 20, of complications from COVID-19, his family said.
Friends said they learned only a week ago that Mr. Anderson was in the hospital. He would have celebrated a birthday this Thursday.
Mr. Anderson was the cohost of Electric Magazine on Saturday mornings on WURD 96.1 FM/900 AM. He had also been the first general manager at WURD, the only African American-owned-and-operated talk radio station in Pennsylvania.
Before that, he was a longtime general manager for WDAS-FM 105.3 FM and a former owner of WHAT-1340 AM, where he instituted a Black talk-radio format.