ERS+ Urban Coordinator James Barnes sat down with the Educator League’s founder and CEO, Eric Tabb. Eric Tabb is a spearhead in Boston’s Roxbury community. He’s the school leader at Boston Prep Charter School, and the founder and CEO of The Educator League. To learn more about the Educator’s League click here: https://educatorleague.com/ You can…
ERS+ – Boston’s Black Experience, 88.9FM HD2 / wersplus.org, sat down with Psychotherapist Sonia Erlich. She is the Deputy Director for Workforce Development and Clinical Training for TEAM UP. Mo Wilks and Sonia discuss positive ways to process and check in with yourself to deal with stress. These simple tools can be used on the…
DJ Mo Wilks interview Boston singer/songwriter Kae Alayah Singer songwriter Kae Alayah stopped by Studio 8-8-9 to talk with The Secret Spots’ Mo Wilks about her musical background, inspirations and glimpse into her performance at the Momentun BAMSFest Boston opening night. She’ll be onstage at the Sinclair in Harvard Square with other local Boston area…
Welcome back to Studio 8-8-9, I’m DJ MO WILKSSummer in Boston is thankfully in full effect. Cookouts, road trips, gatherings with friends and family increase as does the signalling of the summer film season. I’m not referencing the summer blockbuster series season, although there appear to be some super offerings taking filmgoers to worlds of…
Momentum 2025 Boston kicks off June 25, 2025. It is a six-day arts and culture music creative festival that is part of BAMSFest (bamsfest.org) June 28th. BAMSFest, the festival’s crowning jewel event, celebrates it’s the seventh year of highlighting local and national arts, dance and cultural creatives inside Massachusetts held at Dorchester’s historic Franklin Park…
For Black Music Month we’re celebrating one Black musician that we play on ERS+ a week. This week it’s Ice Cube, who’s always keeping it cool. By Fiona Brown Biography Ice Cube was born on June 15, 1969, in Los Angeles, California. He grew up in South Central LA, a neighborhood deeply affected by gang…
By Anytza Delgado Boston was wrapped in velvet Monday night as Coco Jones lit up Roadrunner with a show that felt like the warmest hug and the fiercest flex all at once. From the moment the lights dimmed, it was clear: this wasn’t just a concert. It was a celebration of R&B, of millennial nostalgia,…
Article written by James Barnes, Urban Coordinator Videography & Photos by Bryan Edourd, Class of 2025 BAMS (Boston Arts & Music Soul) Festival, or BAMSFest, is a culturally-led movement, pioneered and orchestrated by Boston native Catherine T. Morris. Established in June of 2018, the goal was to recognize and magnify the creative contributions of Black & Brown…
Listen to our interview with Cagen Luse, co-founder along with Barrington Edwards of Comics in Color, a two-day festival now in it’s fifth year in Boston held at Roxbury Community College. Cagen drops knowledge on his journey to becoming a cartoonist, Boston’s comic scene, the recent passing of Boston illustrator Robert Stull, as well as…
ERS+ and The Secret Spot’s very own DJ Mo Wilks vibed out with members of the Virginia-based soul band, Butcher Brown. Morgan Burrs (guitar) and Corey Fonville (drums) discussed their musical inspirations, how Butcher Brown came to be, and their latest album Letters From The Atlantic in this tell-all interview.