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: CNN.COM Shaquan Duley wanted to be free, police say. That is why, they say, she pressed her bare hands over her children’s faces, two little boys, and smothered them. That is why she placed their bodies into her Chrysler sedan and sent the car into the blackwater of the Edisto River. Early Monday when […]

Check out the latest reason America is a scary-ass place – a Krispy Kreme Bacon Cheeseburger, which made its debut at the Wisconsin State Fair this summer! The $5 monstrosity – created by Nathan Morrissey of Machine Head restaurant – apparently is a normal cheeseburger with a Krispy Kreme doughnut instead of a bun, and […]

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said eggs from Wright County Egg in Galt, Iowa, were linked to several illnesses in Colorado, California and Minnesota. The CDC said about 200 cases of the strain of salmonella linked to the eggs were reported weekly during June and July, four times the normal number of […]

While the world focused its attention on the political cliffhanger in May that led to Great Britain’s first coalition government in 70 years, the U.K.’s minorities were making significant gains in national representation.

On Saturday, August 21, from 9:00am until 11:30am, Marbles Kids Museum presents Kickoff to Kindergarten. Experts in nutrition, education, healthy living, proper immunizations and more will be at Kickoff to Kindergarten. Students can take part in a PE class, board a school bus, go through a pretend lunch line and learn to pack their backpack. […]

Forty, 50, even 60 years later, Athens High and Industrial School and Burney-Harris High School alumni still remember their school song. More than 100 of them sang it Saturday after unveiling a plaque marking the site of Georgia’s first high school for African Americans at what’s now a vacant lot at the corner of North […]

With a strong voice and the memories that come from experience, William McDonald shared with East Texans about a world that once was.

A Mexican couple got the surprise of their lives at the funeral for their daughter, who was born premature and pronounced dead at the hospital she was born at. A newborn girl declared dead by doctors in Mexico surprised mourners when she came back to life inside her coffin. Hidalgo State Attorney General Jose Rodriguez […]

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