Joe Madison Awarded By NAACP For Excellence In Media

Joe Madison, “The Black Eagle”, host of The Joe Madison Show on SiriusXM Urban View, was presented with an award at last week’s annual NAACP Convention in Orlando, Florida.

The award was given to Madison “for excellence in the use of media in the promotion of civil rights for all Americans”. Roslyn Brock, Chair of the NAACP, and Ben Jealous, President and CEO of the NAACP, presented the award to Mr. Madison.

A native of Dayton, Ohio, Madison has been named Talker Magazine’s 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts ten times. For Madison, it was activism that prepped him for a career in radio. In 1974, several years after graduating from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, Madison was appointed Executive Director of the 10,000 member Detroit NAACP at 24, becoming the youngest person appointed to this position in NAACP history. Four years later, he was promoted to Director of the NAACP Political Action Department in 1978 by former president and CEO of the NAACP, Dr. Benjamin L. Hooks.

In 1986, Madison’s talents were called upon once again, when NAACP convention delegates elected him to the national board of directors and re-elected him for the next 14 years. In 1996, Madison accepted the challenge of restoring prominence to the NAACP Image Awards when he was appointed its chairman. At the time of his appointment, the Image Awards was $2.5 million in debt and near termination. But under Madison’s leadership, the Image Awards regained its national prominence and reversed its debt position to $1 million in profit within two years.

Madison was a talk show host for Radio One's flagship station WOL for two decades and its' Program Director for five years.

This past Saturday Joe Madison gave a passionate, resounding speech at the Washington location for the 100-City "Justice For Trayvon" rally.

On top of all this, Joe Madison currently serves on the American Red Cross Board of Governors.