About Karen Clark

Karen Clark, a Durham native, is a graduate of the School of Journalism at the UNC- Chapel Hill. Her desire to pursue a career in broadcast led her to a 4-year stint in commercial radio. Karen’s experience included on-air work G-105 (WDCG) and K97.5 (WQOK) in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Karen’s radio experience led her to a Promotions Manager position with Columbia Records. While working with Columbia, Karen promoted and marketed albums for national recording artists such as Mariah Carey, Will Smith, Beyonce, Wyclef Jean and many others. This promotions position was Karen’s first foray into event planning, allowing her to coordinate parties, autograph signings, performances and regional itineraries for dozens of artists. After three years with Columbia Records, Karen landed a position with West Coast based Capitol Records. Capitol Records boasts an impressive roster of artists including The Beatles, Coldplay, Corrine Bailey Rae and Snoop Dogg.

After seven years in the music industry, Karen, along with her mother, started Something Borrowed, Something Blue, a nationally-recognized wedding and event planning company based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Karen’s events have been seen on the Style Network shows Whose Wedding Is It Anyway? and Married Away. She has been a featured contributor for InStyle Weddings, The Knot and various local news programs and publications

Karen is currently the Midday On-Air Personality at Foxy 107.1/104.3 (WFXC/WFXK.) She enjoys cooking, working out, playing with her young son and volunteering in the community.

VIA: ESSENCE.COM Pop songstress Christina Milian is holding nothing back when talking about her brief marriage to producer Terius “The-Dream” Nash. In a cover story for Latina Magazine, Milian describes her messy divorce from the The-Dream as “going to hell and back.” “I survived,” says the mom of 10-month-old baby Violet. As for her ex-husband’s […]

New York — Glenn Beck may be one of the hottest talk show hosts in the country, but he apparently left New York’s WOR cold. WOR (710 AM), one of the city’s two biggest talk radio stations, said this morning it is dropping Beck’s syndicated show as of Jan. 17 and replacing him with a […]

Texas– An Austin-based pro-life nonprofit group is behind a controversial ad campaign that blames Planned Parenthood for high abortion rates in the black community.

Here at “Washington Watch,” we believe in honoring those African-Americans who bore the burden of injustice and indifference to make life better for us all. In this special tribute, we say “so long and thanks for never giving up.”

WEST ORANGE, N.J. —On Aug. 20, 1978, five teenagers in Newark left their homes after supper; they were reported to have been seen last with Mr. Evans, a 25-year-old mason and handyman who needed help moving boxes. They were never heard from again. Years of tip lines and new DNA tests produced no leads.

New York– A suicidal man plummeted nine stories and survived in midtown Sunday when he landed on a mountain of trash that had piled up since last week’s blizzard, officials said.

From NYDailyNews Arkansas — First birds dropped dead from the skies, now thousands of fish have died in Arkansas.Officials are investigating what may have killed some 100,000 fish in the Arkansas River in the northwestern section of the state, authorities said on Sunday. Deceased drum fish littered 20 miles of the river near Ozark, Keith […]

VIA: CNN.COM Arkansas game officials hope testing scheduled to begin Monday will solve the mystery of why up to 5,000 birds fell from the sky just before midnight New Year’s Eve. The birds — most of which were dead — were red-winged blackbirds and starlings, and they were found within a one-mile area of Beebe, […]

VIA: CNNMONEY.COM Dollar General plans to create 6,000 new jobs in the next year, the discount retailer said Monday. The increased hiring is part of Dollar General’s (DG, Fortune 500) plan to open 625 new stores during the year, the company said in a statement.The retailer said the hiring is the latest phase in its […]

ATLANTA, Ga-Chantel Calloway, a popular woman on the Atlanta party scene has been arrested for bank robbery according to the Atlanta Journal- Constitution. Calloway can be seen on her Myspace page with celebrities such as Kid Capri, John Legend, Eva Pigford and Lisa Raye, as well as NBA players Gary Payton and Paul Pierce, with […]

From City Limits Magazine New York — Gary Sanders and Connie Wilson wanted to buy some marijuana, so they hopped on the L Train and headed east one night in October. The Friday evening rush hour crowd had already passed, so they were able to find seats. Sanders’s leg bounced up and down. He stared […]

Virginia — Spending nine hours a week in a dialysis chair watching her blood filter through a large machine was not what Wendy Rodgers imagined for her twenties.