WEAA is located on campus, with studios at the School of Global Journalism and Communication, and a transmitter on Hillen Road.
[4] Although WEAA is based at Morgan State, most of its staff are non-students, and it serves a larger community within Baltimore.
And because the station was on the campus of Morgan State, students would be given valuable experience gathering news or producing public affairs programs, in addition to serving as deejays.
[14] Another famous alum of WEAA was April Ryan, who began working there as a disc jockey and then began hosting a news program in the late 1980s; she went on to become a news reporter for the American Urban Radio Networks, and a political analyst for CNN.
[15] Some professional announcers also worked at WEAA, mentoring young students interested in broadcasting: one well-known veteran of black radio in Baltimore, Larry Dean (real name: Lawrence D. Faulkner), helped to start WEAA's news department and worked as the station's news director for nearly eight years.
[16] In 1998, white Baltimore activist Robert Kaufman accused WEAA of reverse racism when they turned down his offer to host a show for free.
[18] Powers filed a lawsuit alleging that O'Malley ordered him fired, with WEAA manager Donald Lockett and NAACP president Kweisi Mfume acting as intermediaries.