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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

MY GUIDE There is a Family Circus cartoon where the son is asked to take out the garbage.  The drawing then traces the tangled and erratic pathway between the boy and his final destination.  He bounces over couches, through windows, under wheelbarrows, around trees, between siblings, all on the way to the curbside trash can. […]

Give Me Grace Maybe you’ve heard stories of people suffering tragedy, or maybe you’re living through a tragedy yourself.  Either way, if you had been told you would encounter tragedy, you’d probably have thought, There’s no possible way I could go through that.  And you would be right.  You couldn’t. Why?  Because you haven’t yet […]

Lena Byrd Miles’ latest single “WOW (Walk On Water)” remains in the #1 position at Billboard’s Gospel Airplay chart this week. This is also the song’s 27th week on the chart. “WOW (Walk On Water)” was written by Lena Byrd Miles, Warryn Campbell and Eric Dawkins and produced by Warryn Campbell for My Block Inc. “Walk On Water, […]

SUPERNATURAL COURAGE That’s a pretty strong declaration:  one example in the life of Vibia Perpetus, a married noblewoman and Christian martyr who died at twenty-two years of age in Third Century Rome.  Perpetua was arrested for her profession of faith in Christ and threatened with a harrowing execution if she did not renounce he faith.  […]

Lena Byrd Miles’ latest single “WOW (Walk On Water)” climbs from #2 to the pole position at Billboard’s Gospel Airplay chart this week. This is also the song’s 26th week on the chart. “WOW (Walk On Water)” was written by Lena Byrd Miles, Warryn Campbell and Eric Dawkins and produced by Warryn Campbell for My Block Inc. “Walk […]

CONSOLATION Picture a young girl running a race.  She leaps off to a great start when the gun sounds.  She pushes her way to the front of the park in no time and sets a pace that is tough to compete with.  As she rounds the final corner with the finish line in sight, she […]

According to Billboard, Pastor Mike Jr. makes history atop the Billboard Gospel Airplay chart with his fourth straight career-opening No. 1.  He achieves a first. As he links the longest career-opening No. 1 streak in the history of the survey, which began in March 2005 with his single “Impossible”. Pastor Mike Jr. (real name Mike […]

Hope In God I hope it doesn’t rain today.  I hope I did well on that final.  I hope he didn’t forget our annivesary.  I hope I get a promotion.  Few things that we hope for contain the kind of satisfaction that lasts.  Even if we get what we hoped for, what comes next?  We […]

For the third week in a row, Grammy Award Winner, Stellar Award Winner, and 2022 American Music Award Winner for Favorite Gospel Artist, Tamela Mann, set an industry record this week. She is the first artist to score ten No. 1’s at the gospel radio format. Her current single, “Finished,” which she penned with Singer/Songwriter, Travis Greene, is the fourth […]

Grammy Award winner Warryn Campbell is a music visionary, executive, and leading producer of R&B, gospel, and Hip Hop music. Campbell’s mastery to create chart-topping hits across a multitude of genres has made him critically acclaimed as one of the most prolific record producers of our time. Join the Kennedy Center as he and Founding […]

Walking Honorably Honor awards are usually given to those who achieve excellence in specific fields.  People are honored for their performance in musical, athletic, academic, and professional arenas.  Some are honored for their exceptional bravery or intelligence.  And rightly so.  But if honor is given only for excellent achievement, how on earth can we be […]

Sufficient Grace There is no greater education in the amazing grace of God than his own words.  When the impact of his grace has saved you, these words have a particularly powerful and humbling effect.  We have done nothing, yet we have everything.  We were dead but now we have life.  We didn’t pay with […]