DC radio institution WHUR is celebrating its 50th birthday today. The Howard University station is commemorating the occasion with a mural that's being unveiled outside of Ben's Chili Bowl. It ...

WHUR -- Howard University Radio -- went on the air Aug. 10, 1971, and suddenly, black radio left behind jive-talking, proto-rapping deejays. Washington, then almost three-quarters black, was home ...

The Frank Ski Show with Nina Brown takes over afternoons August 3 on 96.3 WHUR.It’s been a bit of a shuttle back-and-forth from WVEE in Atlanta to WHUR in DC for Ski. He worked at WVEE from 1998 ...

The theme song from the movie “Shaft” with Issac Hayes was the first song played by WHUR(FM),Washington after it went digital – because that was the first song aired when the station began ...

WHUR, which streams at www.whur.com, also was an early adopter of digital radio. On Jan. 21, 2004, it became the first commercial station in the D.C. area to deploy HD Radio. Then in 2006 WHUR-World ...