Angela Stribling, BET Personality and Longtime Radio Host, Dies

The voice was the kind you don't forget. Smooth, warm, assured — each word seemed to open a door for the listener. Angela Stribling owned that voice. On September 27, journalist Ed Gordon announced on Facebook that Stribling, a BET personality and longtime radio host, had died. Gordon, a journalist with more than four decades at BET, wrote: 'My little sister Angela is gone. She was one of the most beloved voices of her generation.' Brief as the announcement was, it painted a picture: a voice that moved through Washington, D.C. radio airwaves, BET screens, commercials and celebrity interviews. Now that voice has stopped. But a voice so alive is hard to let go. Details remain incomplete. Her age, exact date of death and cause have not been released. A Facebook post remains the only public source so far. According to her LinkedIn profile, she worked as a graphics producer at WJZ-TV and WJLA-TV before joining BET, where she built a career in voiceover, advertising and celebrity interviews. Radio seemed to be her first and deepest love. Gordon described her presence in Washington, D.C. radio and Sirius as 'unparalleled.' Her voice had a reach — she was not just reading lines; she was talking to you. That connection came from command of language, timing and emotional measure — things no script can teach. The news arrived via social media, not a press release — a sign of how quickly such news moves now. But it also leaves room for rumor. Until the family issues a statement, restraint is the better part of remembrance. The silence around details is part of grieving. Stribling's work was rarely on camera, often in the spaces between: the pre-show announcement, the ad-break voice, the interview that made a star feel human. That is the quiet architecture of broadcast media, and she was one of its unnoticed pillars. Her legacy lives in memory — mornings shaped by her voice, drives accompanied by her words. No algorithm can replace the pause, the breath, the slight imperfection of a real human voice. Angela Stribling was not a headline, but she was the voice inside many headlines. Today we remember that a voice can stop, but its wave never truly ends.