Larry Young
Radio Talk Host, Larry Young began his radio career in 1998 on WOLB 1010 AM with The Larry Young Morning Show Monday thru Friday, 7am to 10am. The Larry Young Morning Show is rated the # 1 Black Talk Show in Maryland and also ranked by Talkers Magazine as one of the top 100 Talk Shows in the country 2007 # 99, and 2008 # 86,2009 #63, 2010 #63, 2011 #63 and 2012 #53,2013 #54, 2014 #52, 2015 #50,
2016 #47, 2017 #45, 2018 #45 and 2019 #41.
The Larry Young Morning Show was also named “Best Radio Station” by Baltimore City Paper in 2007, 2008, 2009 and in 2010. He also has been awarded by the community with such awards as the 2007 Pinnacle Award given by American Development Consortium, 2009 Ed Bradley Award given by Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, 2011 Unsung Hero Award given by Grace Outreach Fundraising Committee, 2012 Whitney M.Young Jr. Award given by Greater Baltimore Urban League and recipient of TALKERS Magazine Humanitarian Award in June 2015.
In 1993, my Muslim community purchased an old school building in Bloomfield Township in the hopes of making it a home for the spiritual and social lives of the growing number of Muslim families in the area. It would be a mosque. We’d call it the Unity Center, and as part of its mission we would aim to foster unity within metro Detroit’s vastly diverse Muslim community.
Thirty-three percent of Detroit’s 33 mosques are largely attended by South Asians, 30% by Arabs, and 18% by African Americans, according to the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding’s 2003 mosque study. By making unity a core value, we also wanted to demonstrate our commitment to strengthening relationships with the greater community we lived in, a neighborhood dotted with churches and synagogues.
As the project took root and renovation plans were drawn up, neighbors who lived around the proposed mosque began to voice objections. They cited traffic, environmental impact on nearby lakes and noise pollution, but the underlying foundation for their apprehension was poorly cloaked. They were afraid of this group they knew little about — Muslims — and they worried about what problems the unfamiliar group might bring to their peaceful lives. As one resident said, “It’s not a standard of worship like we know it to be.” These objections came eight years before 9/11.
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