Angela Stribling, BET host and radio personality, dies after 2-year battle with brain cancer

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Set us as preferred Radio personality, jazz singer and former BET host Angela Stribling died on Sunday of cancer.Stribling “passed away peacefully at home ...

after a courageous two-year battle with brain cancer,” her husband, Ken Washington, posted to her Instagram account.“Her sister Darlene and I were by her side.” A native of Buffalo, N.Y., Stribling attended the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City and took a position with American Airlines at the Baltimore/Washington International Airport after college.

She spent four years as host of BET entertainment news program “Screen Scene” and helped launch BET Jazz, hosting “Jazz Central,” “Jazz Discovery” and “Jazz Scene” for the network, according to a posting about her death by WHUR 96.3 Howard University Radio.Music “King of Calypso” Slinger Francisco, also known as the Mighty Sparrow, died in New York on Sunday at 91 following a brief illness, according to his daughter, Karen Francisco.

She worked as a reporter for “Evening Magazine” and co-host of “On Time” on Baltimore television and as a news intern at WTTG-TV and at WOL-AM in Washington, D.C., before joining WHUR-FM.That’s where she became the first woman to host “The Original Quiet Storm,” a program of “soulful slow jams and romantic melodies” that recently celebrated 50 years of being on air.“Pillow Talk,” WHUR’s long-running late-night program hosted by Stribling, centered on relationships, conversation and music.“Angela Stribling was a remarkable talent, but what made her truly special was the person she was,” WHUR general manager Sean Plater said in the station’s tribute.

“Her voice was beautiful, her presence was calming, and her spirit was genuine.She had a way of making people feel welcome and valued, and that gift extended far beyond th...