About Cheryl Jackson
When it comes to the inspiration brand, Cheryl Jackson is one of the nation's leading media personalities in the format. A trailblazer in the field, she created the first Urban Inspiration Radio Station in the United States while programming Heaven 1580 in Washington DC.
Urban inspiration is a lifestyle driven music format that fuses Pop, R&B, gospel and Contemporary Christian music with today's trending news and current affairs, all with an inspirational twist. Major media outlets have adopted this brand of programming throughout the world, in hopes of marketing their product to mainstream advertisers.
As an champion for the gospel and urban inspiration brand, she was and is instrumental breaking some of the major gospel artists in their quest to establish their careers while coming to the DMV.
A 2x Stellar Award winning radio personality herself, she is the Executive Producer for the nationally syndicated radio show, “Get Up Mornings with Erica Campbell”. She can be heard on Praise 104.1 FM in Washington DC for her highly rated radio show, "Cheryl Jackson in the Midday''; and worldwide on Urban One's Inspiration Network. Most importantly, she’s a wife, a mother, a friend, and a daughter of the King
Nia Allen and Jor’Dan Armstrong ascend a spot to No. 1 on Gospel Airplay with “Sunshine.” Armstrong and Allen co-authored it with Kortez Harris, the latter two of whom also co-produced it. The Dallas-based Allen banks her second Gospel Airplay ruler, following “Wait (2020),” which led for a week in May 2021. “I’m in Love […]
WATER ISN’T CONCRETE Have you ever stepped out in “blind Faith” and said yes to something crazy that God called you too? The valley of decision can be log and difficult, so when we finally take that step of saying yes, we can expect everything to come together almost instantly on the other side. But, […]
PRECIOUS Do you know how precious your life is to God? We have all heard a million times about how he loved the world so much that he sent his Son to die for us, but do we truly understand how desperately God longs for us? How passionately he pursues us? God’s love is the […]
ALWAYS RIGHT We must be careful not to judge others quickly based on our limited perception. We mustn’t assume things about people based on what we’ve heard or what little we’ve observed. The reality is that we truly can’t know the full story of those around us. We have no understanding of the losses they’ve […]
To Jevon Dewand & The Trap Starz, “trap” doesn’t refer to being stuck. Instead, it stands for “talent revolving around purpose.” The group consists of musicians Jevon Dewand, Jazze Pha and Gasner The Artist. They have been nominated for two 2024 Stellar Gospel Music Awards: New Artist of the Year, and Album of the […]
GROWING IN LOVE Love is hard. It means sacrificing our own priorities for those of another. It goes against our natural flesh instincts. In and of ourselves, love is not our matural reaction or response to the people around us. We have to grow in love and we can only learn this properly from the […]
BRAVERY What does it mean to be commanded to be brave? We often think of bravery as an innate character quality. You’re either a bold person, or you’re not. And if we are being completely honest, few of us truly feel brave. There is a lot that scares us. We are afraid of failure, […]
HE IS FAITHFUL The faithfulness of God is something we so easily find ourselves questioning. Though he has proven himself time and time again thtoughout history, we still wonder whether or not he will come through for us. But the reality is that whether the sun is shining or the rain is pouring, whether […]
Singer-songwriter/producer Pastor Deitrick Haddon is making noise with his single “Never Be the Same,” which recently landed atop the MediaBase and Billboard Gospel Radio charts. The track, taken from the album One Night in California, arrived last March. It follows a joint album with producer Zaytoven, an USHER collaboration, a role in the TV One film Sins Of The Father and an appearance in the ALLBLK film The Fallen of which he produced […]
Choose Joy We all want to be happy. We spend our lives chasing the idea of happiness only to find it just out of reach. But when we stop chasing happiness and start choosing joy that is when we truly begin to live out our lives to the fullest. Happiness comes by chance; joy […]
APPROVED All children want to know that their parents are proud of them. It’s an innate human need to be affirmed in our capabilities and to be praised for our work. But every good parent will tell you the same thing: they are proud of their children no matter what. Children earn and adoration […]
Built Up The church was meant to be place of unity; that is why it is described as the body of Christ. In order to function well, the body needs every part to be connected and working well together. When there is disunity or factions, the church suffers as a sick person, unable to operate […]