Kimberly, working in Woodbridge, is the 94.3 WYBC Virtual Lunch Club winner for the month of March 2025! Kimberly and her co-worker enjoyed a delicious lunch with Wanda Coppage virtually courtesy of D’Amatos Seafood on Whalley Avenue in New Haven!
Want to have lunch with Wanda? Go to our WYBC Contest Page and enter to win!
An Evening with Patti LaBelle comes to Mohegan Sun Arena on Friday April 18th.
Tickets go on sale Friday at 10am at www.ticketmaster.com
Listen to DeDe In The Morning with Darryl Huckaby this week to win tickets!
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R.E.S.P.E.C.T. – A Celebration of the Music of Aretha Franklin comes to the Shubert Theatre in New Haven on Friday, April 4th.
Tickets are on sale at www.shubert.com
Listen to The Workforce with Juan Castillo this week to win tickets!
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Everyone needs a break, especially YOU! That’s why WYBC and SweeTy’s Treats “Touched by Tira” LLC want to give you and your co-workers an afternoon break and enjoy some delicious treats!
Enter to win some yummy treats from SweeTy’s Treats delivered to your workplace or office by the WYBC Street Team! Each week, we’ll randomly pick a winner. Then on Thursday, we’ll deliver those yummy treats to where you work!
So sign up below and you could be our next winner!
Contest open to Connecticut residents only. Must be at least 18 years of age or older to enter. One entry per person. Duplicate entries will be discarded.
Comedian Katt Williams brings his “Heaven on Earth” Tour to The XL Center in Hartford on Saturday, May 17th. Tickets are on sale at www.ticketmaster.com
Enter to win a pair of tickets!
Contest open to Connecticut residents only. Must be at least 18 years of age or older to enter. One entry per person. Duplicate entries will be discarded. Tickets are digital so winner must have a smartphone and a valid email address to receive tickets.
Connecticut Pizza & Brew Fest with Brown Roofing is Sunday, July 20, 2025 at the Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater in Bridgeport from 12pm to 4pm.
Connecticut Pizza & Brew Fest with Brown Roofing is the ultimate pizza tasting event in the state. The Connecticut Pizza & Brew Fest with Brown Roofing will allow you to sample some of the best pizza and craft beers Connecticut has to offer. Also included will be panel discussions, live music and pizza contesting.
Buy tickets to CT Pizza & Brew Fest here
VIP:
12pm-1pm exclusive VIP hour. Free pizza samples only 12pm-1pm.
$50 per ticket
GA:
1pm-4pm
$10 per ticket
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Sisters’ Journey Celebrates – TANYA RUCKER
Read her inspiring story (thanks www.sistersjourney.org)
My name is Tanya Rucker, and this is my story.
Four years ago in May, I received the devastating news that I had breast cancer. It all started with a lump that I felt in my right breast. It was the size of a pea which I found accidentally. My husband and I were lying in bed one evening and he just happened to roll over onto my right breast. The next day there was discomfort so I did a self-breast exam and that’s when I felt the lump. I thought it was a simple cyst because it was hard, round, and mobile. However, I found myself having an overwhelming fear of the “what if!”
I reached out to my provider to be evaluated. My gynecologist was able to see me the next day. She completed a breast exam and ordered imaging. I was able to get an appointment for a diagnostic mammogram and breast ultrasound immediately. The mammogram was normal. The ultrasound was conducted shortly after. It revealed two suspicious areas which were biopsied the same day. I laid on that table and remembered feeling anxious, nervous, and very scared. I am an ultrasound technologist so I knew immediately what they were looking at. The lump I felt showed all the characteristics of cancer. It took less than a week for the results to come back, and just like that, I knew everything was going to be different.
The radiologist who I worked alongside for years informed me that the test results showed invasive ductal carcinoma in the two areas biopsied. The radiologist recommended that I get an MRI of the breast to see if there were any other lesions.
I was devastated, crying, and could not understand what was being said. I could not comprehend what I was hearing. I was blessed to have my girlfriend there when I heard the news. Together, we called my husband and developed a game plan. Once I was able to calm my nerves, clear my eyes and stop the hysterical crying, I went into action. I made appointments with an oncologist, plastic surgeon, breast surgeon and MRI. Once the MRI results came back, the breast surgeon, Dr. Horowitz, explained that I had cancerous lesions in three different areas of the right breast. She was going to bring my case to the tumor board to consult on a surgical plan. She was hoping that she could conduct multiple lumpectomies to save my right breast. I quickly informed her that was not my plan.
I knew I wanted a DIEP flap reconstruction and needed to decide if I wanted a bilateral or unilateral mastectomy. My husband and I discussed what was best for me and our young family. Thankfully, my surgery was scheduled for July 2, 2020, for a nipple sparing bilateral mastectomy with a DIEP flap reconstruction.
I arrived I am blessed to have an amazing medical team, two loving children, a husband, family, and friends who provided unwavering support. I leaned on my faith to get through some of my darkest moments and mediation to keep my mind calm. I am blessed to have a voice and a warm embrace for the next person who faces a breast cancer diagnosis. We are not alone.at Yale New Haven Hospital with my husband and mom by my side. This was by far the hardest day of my life. I had to leave my husband and mom behind while I was escorted to the OR prep area. The hospital was still under COVID-19 precautions, so visitors were restricted. I could not believe I was all alone!
Twelve hours and two units of blood later, while recovering in a private room, I was informed that they had gotten clear borders, and I did not have any lymph node involvement. Pathology determined that my cancer was classified as Stage 1. My oncologist ordered an additional test called Oncotype Post-Surgery. The Oncotype test determines if it would be beneficial to receive chemotherapy. My Oncotype score was low. Therefore, chemo was not recommended. My treatment plan was 10-15 years of tamoxifen. I was given tamoxifen because I was premenopausal and HR +.
A cancer diagnosis brings a flood of complex emotions. I remember I was so angry – angry that this was my second cancer in my lifetime. I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer at age 29, now breast cancer at 43. I questioned, “Why now? Why could I not have been a lot older?” I was 43, with two young children. My youngest was three and my oldest was four at the time. I was angry that 1 in 8 women are diagnosed with breast cancer at some point in their life. I was angry that I knew five other women in my inner circle who were also diagnosed with breast cancer that same year. The anger eventually lessened and was replaced with acceptance.
I am blessed to have an amazing medical team, two loving children, a husband, family, and friends who provided unwavering support. I leaned on my faith to get through some of my darkest moments and mediation to keep my mind calm. I am blessed to have a voice and a warm embrace for the next person who faces a breast cancer diagnosis. We are not alone.
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The Inspector comes to the Yale Repertory Theatre on March 7th-29th. Tickets are on sale at yalerep.org
About the show
An entire town is plunged into chaos as it frantically hides its grift and incompetence from the prying eyes of an undercover inspector. But the cons are about to get conned: the mysterious stranger accepting every bauble, coin, and advance thrown his way is not who he seems to be. Everyone is on the take–or the make–in this outrageously anarchic comedy of errors. Yura Kordonsky’s adaptation of Gogol’s timeless masterpiece, The Inspector, is both the moving drama of a community desperate for a better life and a farce exposing the absurd lengths to which they go in its pursuit.
Development and production support for The Inspector is provided by Yale’s Binger Center for New Theatre.
94.3 WYBC is celebrating Women’s History Month!
Keep listening as we highlight Moments and Significant Figures in Women’s History. Both locally and nationally!
WYBC celebrates Black History EVERYDAY!
Facts from www.blackfacts.com
March 1
1892 – The pastry fork was invented by a black woman, Ms. Anna M. Mangin
1924 – Harold (“Harry”) George Belafonte was born on this day
March 2
1888 – Capital Savings Bank of Washington, D.C., the first Black bank, opened in Washington, D.C. The Savings Bank of the Order of True Reformers
1972 – Dr. Jerome H. Holland was elected to the board of directors of the New York Stock Exchange on this day
March 3
1932 – African actress and singer Miriam Makeba born in Johannesburg, South Africa
1990 – Carole Gist crowned first black Miss USA
March 4
1897 – Willie Covan, one of the first successful tap dancers was born on this day
1954 – President Eisenhower named J. Earnest Wilkins of Chicago assistant secretary of labor
March 5
1897 – American Negro Academy founded on this day.
1981 – U.S. government granted Atlanta some $1 million to finance mental health and social programs in the wake of a mysterious series of abductions and slayings involving at least twenty two Black youths
March 6
1957 – Ghana became an independent state
2012 – Donald Payne, a Democrat, was the first African American elected to Congress from the State of New Jersey. Payne was born in Newark, New Jersey
March 7
1942 – First cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee
1964 – Wanda Sykes is an American actress; comedian, writer, and voice artist was born on this day.
March 8
1826 – Alexander Thomas Augusta, first African American faculty member of an American medical school, Howard University, is born free on this day.
1977 – Henry L. Marsh III elected 1st Black mayor of Richmond, VA.
March 9
1913 – Harriet Tubman, “engineer” of the Underground Railroad died on this day.
1987– Bow Wow was born on this day.
1999 – The U.S. Supreme Court declared Joseph Cinquez and his fellow mutineers free. In August 1839, in the most famous slave ship revolt in history, Cinquez, the son of an African king, and his Mendi followers had killed the captain and taken over the Spanish slaver the Amistad. The rebels were captured off Long Island, where they had been discovered floating in a “mysterious long black schooner “with tattered sails before trying to sail the Amistad back to Africa
March 10
1913 – Harriet Tubman was born on this day.
1981 – Samuel Eto’o, in full Samuel Eto’o Fils (born March 10, 1981, Nkon, Cameroon), Cameroonian professional football (soccer) player who is considered one of the greatest African footballers of all time
March 11
1874 – Frederick Douglass named president of the failing Freedmen’s Bank
1950 – Bobby McFerrin, born on this day.
March 12
1932 – Andrew Young, former US United Nations ambassador, former congressman and former mayor of Atlanta, born in New Orleans, Louisiana
1982 – Charles Fuller wins the Pulitzer Prize for A Soldier’s Play
March 13
1918 – James Rhoden, sculptor, was born on this day.
1957 – John Lee, first black commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy is assigned to duty
March 14
1933 – Quincy Jones, Music Impresario, was born on this day.
1960 – Kirby Puckett, a professional baseball player for the Minnesota Twins, was born on this day in 1960
March 15
1933 – Los Angeles Sentinel founded by Leon H. Washington
1933 – Spingarn Medal presented to YMCA secretary Max Yergan for his achievements as a missionary in South Africa, “representing the gift of cooperation…American Negroes may send back to their Motherland
March 16
1827 – First Black newspaper, Freedom’s Journal, published in New York City
1869 – Hiram R. Revels made his first speech in the Senate, opposing the readmission of Georgia without adequate safeguards for Black citizens. This was the first official speech by a Black in Congress
March 17
1891 – West Virginia State College is founded in Institute
1919 – Nathaniel Adams Cole was a world renowned Jazz musician, born on this day in Montgomery, Alabama
March 18
1941 – Wilson Pickett was born on this day in Prattville, Alabama.
1970– Queen Latifah, a New-Jersey born African-American whose real name is Dana Elaine Owens, was born on this day.
March 19
1619– Birthday of William Tucker, the first African child born in the colonies. Tucker was baptized in Jamestown, Virginia. There are unconfirmed reports that he lived to be 108 years old.
1930 – Ornette Coleman, saxophonist, was born on this day.
March 20
1852 – Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published on this day in Boston, MA.
1984 – Spike Lee, filmmaker, born on this day.
March 21
1938 – Lois Jean Barron White, the first African American President of the National Parent Teacher Association (PTA) was born
1950 – Ron Oden is the first African American and the first openly gay man to hold the office of Mayor of Palm Springs, California. Born on March 21, 1950
March 22
1492 – Alonzo Pietro, explorer, sets sail with Christopher Columbus.
1943 – George Benson, Grammy award winning singer, was born on this day.
March 23
1942 – Politician, writer and activist Walter Rodney was born on this day.
1954 – National Basketball Association star, Moses “The Mailman” Malone is born in Petersburg, Virginia
March 24
1942 – Former professional football player, businessman, and diplomat, Sidney Williams was born on this day in 1942.
2002 – Halle Berry becomes the first black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the movie “Monster’s Ball”
March 25
1942 – Aretha Franklin, one of the most successful female recording artists of all time, was born on this day.
1967– Debi Thomas, the 1988 Olympic Bronze medalist in figure skating was born on this day.
March 26
1944 – Actress/Singer Diana Ross, of the Supremes singing group, was born in Detroit, Michigan
1950 – Teddy Pendergrass, singer, was born on this day.
March 27
1943 – Arthur Mitchell, first African American principal of the New York City Ballet Company and founder, Dance Theatre of Harlem was born
1969– Black Academy of Arts and Letters founded at Boston meeting
March 28
1925 – Ed Wilson, award winning sculptor, born on this day.
1925– Poet Countee Cullen wins Phi Beta Kappa honors at New York University
March 29
1945 – Basketball legend Walt Frazier was born in Atlanta, Georgia
1955 – Football star Earl Campbell was born in Tyler, Texas
March 30
1870 – 15th Amendment gave blacks the right to vote.
1964 – Tracy Chapman, an American singer-songwriter, was born on this day.
March 31
1960 – Laurian Rugambwa of Tanzania becomes the first black Roman Catholic Cardinal
1988 – Toni Morrison wins the Pulitzer Prize for her novel ‘Beloved’
Facts from www.blackfacts.com