Robert "Rob" Redding Jr. has been the most listened to black independent talk show host in the United States of America, heard six days a week in all 50 states via Sirius XM Satellite Radio and on numerous radio stations from Atlanta to Philadelphia. Redding is internationally known for his award-winning ReddingNewsReview.com-based news reports, authoring five best-selling books, two best-selling albums, critically acclaimed abstract artist and being a respected social entrepreneur.

Known to his radio listeners as "America's Independent Voice", he is the founding editor and publisher of the award-winning nonpartisan black news Web site, ReddingNewsReview.com. The Web site has been called a "clearinghouse for African American news" by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper and it has garnered three consecutive "Black Web Awards". ReddingNewsReview.com's headlines are used on his six-day-a-week syndicated radio show of the same name. The show, which has listeners in all 50 states, due to his nearly half decade and more than 420 episodes on Sirius XM Satellite Radio, is heard on numerous great radio stations.

         In 2012, Stanford University selected him as John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship Semifinalist for his journalism innovation. He has also won other top honors, including an gold ADDY and an Associated Press award for Internet news.  Talkers magazine noted his uniquely Independent views on government by listing him as one of the "100 Most Important Radio Talk Hosts In America."

            What's more, Redding has been called one of the most "respected names in the media," by urban magazine Upscale and "one of the most intellectual and intriguing radio talk show hosts since Tavis Smiley," by urban industry authority Radio Facts. Rolling Out magazine says:  "Rob Redding brings a unique brand of political analysis and socially uplifting message to Atlanta airwaves and other cities."

 Other notable highlights of his broadcasting dedication include: Spending his first years in broadcasting as a top-rated hip-hop radio personality in Macon, Ga. – a city that is famous for another family member, Otis Redding. As a radio personality, he was first to record multi-platinum selling rapper Bubba Sparxxx - on Redding’s album "Tony Smoove's Aircheck Volume 1." Sometime after leaving music radio for talk, he became one of the few, if not only, black program directors of a mainstream talk radio station, KMLB-AM in Monroe, La. from August 2009 to August 2010. Around that same time, he became the narrator of the film "Stay Brady Stay", which has been screened at numerous movie festivals and is scheduled to air on Louisiana Public Broadcasting for three years. Redding is the founder of BlackTalkers.com, a Web site covering the black talk radio community. He has also been a frequent guest on the Fox News Channel, National Public Radio and C-SPAN. He has been quoted in some of the world's top newspapers – from France's Libération, the San Francisco Chronicle, Politico to the Baltimore Sun newspapers.

He does not just do radio, the occasional TV appearance and appear in other people articles, he has written plenty of his own articles outside of ReddingNewsReview.com. He spent nearly three years as a political reporter at the Washington Times and other publications. (He previously worked at the Macon Telegraph, the Prince George’s Journal, the Prince George’s Gazette and the Prince George’s Sentinel.) He left The Times to diversify his politically independent résumé to become the communications director at Democrat D.C. Councilman Michael A. Brown’s Mayoral Campaign.

This prolific writer is also the author of five consecutive best selling books, two best selling albums and a best selling diet guide.

Redding's most recent book, "Not a Nonviolent Negro: How I Survived Obama" debuted at No. 1 on Amazon.com in three categories in March 2013. The book, which was released on March 5, was on No. 1 on Amazon.com "Best Sellers List" in "Nationalism" and "Hot New Releases" in the "Social Philosophy" and "Nationalism" categories respectfully. It is his most successful book to date. The book also has a soundtrack "Not a Nonviolent Negro" which also debuted on Amazon.com at No. 1 among "Hot New Releases" in "Disco".  The book and album were released on the same day.

The "Not a Nonviolent Negro" album was a follow up to his dance album "Unleash the Whip!", which was released on Dec. 4, 2012 on iTunes and Amazon.com via CD Baby. The album, which also takes portions of his talk show and sets them to heavy dance beats, reached No. 2 on Amazon.com "Hot New Releases" in the "DJ & Dance" "House" category and got 3 1/2 stars from former About.com dance music critic Jimi Bruce.

          Redding's second most successful book, Disrupter: Pathway to Political Independence, debuted at No. 1 on Amazon.com Hot New Releases - Political Reference list on Aug. 13, 2012 and remained there for more than a week. The book is considered a reference guide for independents and includes parts of Redding's life story.

          His e-book, Resurrection: A Historical Anthology of two Forgotten African American Philosophers reached No. 3 on the Amazon.com "Hot New Releases" list in less than a week after it was released in April 2012.

          That same month, his "One a Day Fade Away" diet e-guide hit No. 29 on "Amazon's Best Sellers" list.

          His e-book, "Where's the Change?: Why Neither Obama, nor the GOP Can Solve America's Problems",  has been ranked number 30 on the Amazon.com "Top 100" for best sellers less than one month after it was released in January of 2012.     

          He has also authored the critically acclaimed e-book, "Hired Hatred: Why politicians and the political prejudices they tout are mutually exclusive from good government." His independent manifesto, written to complement his founding of IndependentThinkers.org, is said to "invoke an activist spirit," according to a review in 2005 by New York's Black Star News.  The book peaked at No. 3 on the "Amazon.com Best Sellers" list on March 16, 2013.    

His more academic writings include, being the creator of the "Resolution of Risk," which was first used at the International Public Debate Association's National Tournament, after being published in the organization's peer-reviewed publication, "The Journal of the International Public Debate Association."  The paper was presented by Redding before a packed audience. 

He has lectured at Temple University, the University of Maryland in College Park, Connecticut College, Morris Brown College in Georgia and Howard Community College in Maryland. He has also served as a panelist for the National Association for Black Journalist, a keynote speaker for the National Council of Negro Women Metropolitan Atlanta Section and the Atlanta Urban Media Makers. 

         Finally, in an apparent attempt to be a well-rounded renaissance man, he has won acclaim as an abstract artist. Redding has been an abstract "Smear" painter since age 12. "It is always an event anytime Rob Redding's smear paintings are featured," writes John Blee, a respected critic and artist.
 
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