WDKX Radio pioneer and women's advocate Marietta Avery dies

Story by Democrat and Chronicle
Written by James Johnson (*KT contributor)

Marietta Avery, General Manager of WDKX, died Tuesday night according to officials at the radio station in Rochester. She was 65.

"Today, I lost my older sister," the radio station's co-owner Andre Langston said in a release. "She was not an employee, but a member of the Langston family."
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*WDKX is a heritage Black-Owned station in Rochester N.Y. I was the voice of the station during the 1990's for then-owner Andrew Langston, who died in 2010. Andrew named the station after his African-American heros. The letters DKX - from the call letters WDKX - stands for Douglass (Frederick Douglass), King (Rev Dr Martin Luther King), and X (Malcolm X).