WTOP Entertainment Reporter Jason Fraley chats with singer/songwriter Vanessa Carlton, who performs live at Rams Head in Annapolis, Maryland on March 1 and The Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia on March 2. They discuss her newest album “Love is an Art” with songs like “Future Pain” and “Die, Dinosaur,” as well as how her pilot father got her demo tape to a record exec for her breakthrough hit “A Thousand Miles.” (Theme Music: Scott Buckley’s “Clarion”)
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Carol McGruder, co-chair of the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council joins us to explain how Blacks are targeted deliberately, and the devastating impact using those products can have.

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WTOP Entertainment Reporter Jason Fraley chats with Bad Company drummer Simon Kirke as today marks the 50th anniversary of the last concert by the band Free (“All Right Now”), allowing its members to next form the iconic classic rock band Bad Company. They spoke in 2015 when Kirke played the annual Rock & Roll for Children benefit in Bethesda, Maryland. (Theme Music: Scott Buckley’s “Clarion”)
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WTOP Entertainment Reporter Jason Fraley chats with Duran Duran lead singer Simon Le Bon as tickets go on sale tomorrow for the band at Capital One Arena in Washington D.C. on Sept. 13. They discuss Duran Duran’s recent induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, as well as their biggest hits, including “Hungry Like the Wolf,” “Is There Something I Should Know,” “A View to a Kill,” “Notorious” and “Ordinary World.” (Theme Music: Scott Buckley’s “Clarion”)
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Alexis Taylor, Managing Editor of The Afro, champions the new generations of Black leaders including Md. Governor Wes Moore. She also talks about the importance of Black press 

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WTOP Entertainment Reporter Jason Fraley chats with actor Tory Kittles and director Matthew Newton of the new action thriller “Among the Beasts,” which hits select theaters and Video on Demand today. (Theme Music: Scott Buckley’s “Clarion”)
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WTOP Entertainment Reporter Jason Fraley chats with country star Sammy Kershaw to celebrate the 30th anniversary of his hit song “She Don’t Know She’s Beautiful.” They spoke in 2015 when he joined Joe Diffie and Aaron Tippin for the “Roots & Boots Tour” at the Great Frederick Fair in Frederick, Maryland. (Theme Music: Scott Buckley’s “Clarion”)
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WTOP Entertainment Reporter Jason Fraley chats with D.C. child actress Blake Aria Hendricks, who plays Harper and Robyn’s daughter Mia in “The Best Man: The Final Chapters” on Peacock. (Theme Music: Scott Buckley’s “Clarion”)
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WTOP Entertainment Reporter Jason Fraley celebrates National Ballet Day by speaking with two of the very best in the business: trailblazing ballerina Misty Copeland and acclaimed choreographer Justin Peck, who visited Washington D.C. to curate “Ballet Across America” at the Kennedy Center in 2017. (Theme Music: Scott Buckley’s “Clarion”)
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Dr. Derrick Darby, the author of the new book,  “A Realistic Blacktopia”,  joins us to explain what it is and how to get there. 

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