Joseph Madison (June 16, 1949 – January 31, 2024), alternatively known as "The Black Eagle" or "Madison", was an American radio talk-show host and activist heard daily on SiriusXM Urban View.^[6]

Madison was a native of Dayton, Ohio. He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, which awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2019.^[6]

He publicized claims of CIA complicity in moving cocaine into the United States, sought evidence, and promoted legislation to declassify possibly related documents. On October 15, 1996, Madison, Dick Gregory, and John Newman launched a hunger strike to promote this legislation.^[1]

A quarter century later, he announced another hunger strike: this time to press for voting rights legislation.^[11]

Madison took a DNA test indicating he has ancestry in Sierra Leone and Mozambique.^[12] Research done for Finding Your Roots revealed that his great-grandfather was a white man from South Carolina who fought for the Confederates during the American Civil War; and his biological grandfather was included in the Tuskegee syphilis experiment.^[13]

Madison lived in Washington, D.C., with his wife Sharon (Sherry) and was a father and grandfather. He earned his bachelor's degree from Washington University in St. Louis.^[14]

Madison died of prostate cancer at his home in Washington, D.C. on January 31, 2024, at the age of 74.^[15][16] He was originally diagnosed with cancer in 2009.