Washington DC –- Washington-based talk show host, Joe Madison, and a delegation of radio talk show personalities, traveled to Southern Sudan on a mission to help refugees in the war-torn region.

Madison was joined by his wife, Sherrie, who reported on the plight of women and families in Sudan during the March 10 – 18, 2008 travel period. 

In cooperation with Christian Solidarity International, Madison delivered several thousand “Sacks of Hope” to Sudanese displaced from their homes by war.

The survival kits, purchased and delivered for $50, included:

• Mosquito netting
• Plastic sheet for shelter
• Water container
• Large blanket
• Cooking pot
• Sickle (used for harvesting grain)
• Fishing hooks

Sudan’s two-decade long civil war killed over 2 million people and drove about 4 million Sudanese away from their homes.  Millions of refugees, encouraged to return to their homeland in preparation of national elections, have returned to find their homes destroyed and have nothing to help them rebuild.

Joe Madison, known also as “The Black Eagle”, hosts a morning talk show on Radio-One WOL-AM and XM Satellite Radio channel 169, “The Power”.  He is a recognized civil and human rights leader.  This trip marked his fourth trip to Sudan where he previously participated in freeing more than 7,000 slaves. 

Madison makes his tenth appearance on Talker Magazine’s 2008 list of the “Top 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America”.  Business Week dubbed Talker Magazine “The Bible of Talk Radio”. 

Madison shares this list with other African American talk show hosts that include  Bev Smith of American Urban Radio Networks, Lincoln Ware, Larry Elder of KABC Los Angeles, and Larry Young of WOLB.

Coming Soon:  DC Urban LifeStyle Magazine 2007 Interview with Joe Madison, and wife Sherry, on traveling to Sudan.

2008 Photos of the Madisons in Darfur