The name Bob Law truly needs no introduction, yet I’ll try. Tall, outspoken, and well-opinioned, he was a star of talk radio, notably Black talk radio. As such, he took up issues great and small, and listened as legions of Black callers flooded his lines, and he met all comers with wit and wisdom and Black compassion.
His show often sent radio waves into the dark ether of night, offering interviews and insight to callers around the nation. His show was called Night Talk. Rennie Bishop, former program director of the famed New York radio station WWRL, produced Law’s show, and he called Bob Law a lighthouse standing in the storm, kind of like a bright, unblinking light in the darkness, giving voice to the Black freedom struggle.
He was, according to scholar Todd Stephen Burroughs, who paired him with other famed talk show hosts like Imhotep Gary Byrd and the late Gil Noble, as a powerful threesome of Black talk on TV and radio. Bob Law was an icon who began as a community organizer before he took to the mic to give voice to Black minds at night. On March 30, 2026, after 86 summers, Bob Law joined the ancestors. With love, not fear. This is Mumia Abu-Jamal.
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