Radio personality Doug Banks, who died Monday after complications from diabetes at 57, was more than a just another pretty voice familiar to those who listened during drive time in America’s third-largest city. From his humble beginnings to the devoted following he found in Chicago to national syndication, he was a man — a black man — whose four-decade career shaped radio as we know it. And, as Ebony pointed out, in a medium often dominated by loud, white, obnoxious shock jocks with particular politics, he was something else: nice. “His work laid the template for what black radio could be,” Adrienne Samuels Gibbs wrote in Ebony. Banks’s peers in radio were just of few of those who offered tributes after his death. It’s difficult to imagine another celebrity whose death would be publicly acknowledged by Jesse Jackson, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and comedian Sinbad — among many others. For Banks, a dream job seemed no work at ...
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