Black Media

Black In America: Why Black Media Needs to Succeed In Digital to Accelerate Innovation

Navarrow Wright | Posted 02.26.2012

Read More: Black Media, Interactive One, Online Black Media, Navarrow Wright, Media, Radio One, Entreprenuership, Digital Divide, Money, Bv-Money, Black Voices News
Navarrow Wright

African Americans are now faced with a new wave of innovation, the digital age, which presents it's own set of challenges for African Americans and it's own set of opportunities for black media. Sadly, there has not been as strong of a showing in black media on the digital front. Why?

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Why Are Some Black Women So Outraged by The Help

Sophia A. Nelson | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Jim Crow, Civil Rights Movement, Viola Davis, Black Woman Redefined, Kathryn Stockett the Help, Black Women, The Help Book, The Help Movie, Black Media, Black Voices News
Sophia A. Nelson

Why are some of the best and brightest black female voices in America so outraged over the new movie The Help based on Kathryn Stockett's best-selling novel?

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How Awkward Black Girl Raised Over $44,000 Through Kickstarter

Issa Rae | Posted 10.10.2011

Read More: Web Series, Television, Awkward Black Girl, Donations, Black Media, Fundraising, Kickstarter, Black Voices News
Issa Rae

After mapping out a budget and strongly considering what we needed to increase the show's production value and compensate the crew and actors who volunteered their time, we decided it was time to stop shortchanging ourselves.

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Media Diversity Not an All-Or-Nothing Game

Will Griffin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Black Owned Media, Hip Hop on Demand, Black Media, Media, Minority Owned Businesses, Media News
Will Griffin

It's a big mistake to limit the notion of diversity to media that are 100 percent minority. That's myopic. It attempts to measure African-American media ownership with a protractor, when what is truly needed is a compass.

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Latoya Peterson: Media, Entrepreneurship and Birth of a New Nation

Mike Green | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Media, Racialicious, Black Media, Corporate Media, Social Entrepreneurship, Racism, Racial Disparities, Racial Stereotypes, Media, Race, Entrepreneurship, Minority, Journalism, Media News
Mike Green

At the intersection where social media and entrepreneurship meet technology and racial issues, you will find Latoya Peterson hard at work changing Ame...

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Can Blacks Rid Themselves of the Use of the N-Word?

Irene Monroe | Posted 05.25.2011

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Irene Monroe

Whether used as an expletive or term of endearment, what is it about this word that captures the rage and shame of the American public?

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Cathy Hughes Strikes Back on Paying Artists for Radio Plays: "Dionne Warwick Is a Lobbyist"

Zondra Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Performance Rights Act, Black Media, Cathy-Hughes, Dionne Warwick, Radio, Chicago News
Zondra Hughes

The record labels want AM/FM radio to belly-up for beats. The future of black radio may be at stake, industry folks say.

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Bay State Banner, Boston's Black Paper, To Take City Loan To Stay Open

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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BOSTON — The publisher of Boston's only black-owned newspaper says he'll accept a $200,000 loan from the city to avert the shutdown of the finan...

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Black Newspaper in Boston Suspends Publication, Lays Off 12

AP | RUSSELL CONTRERAS | Posted 05.25.2011

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BOSTON — An African-American newspaper that covered Boston's busing riots of the 1970s, the fall of black political leaders and the rise of stat...

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Blacks At Odds Over Scrutiny Of Obama

Washington Post | Krissah Thompson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jeff Johnson knows how to make his audiences squirm. The young, black radio and TV political commentator waits for the discussion to turn to the topic...

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The Challenges to Black Media Under President Obama

Clarence B. Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

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Clarence B. Jones

Critical and constructive analysis of President Obama's policies is certainly more useful than our Black Media's continued uncritical celebration of our new president.

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Obama Brings Flush Times For Black News Media

New York Times | RACHEL L. SWARNS | Posted 05.25.2011

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For the nation's black magazines, newspapers, and television and radio stations, the arrival of the Obama administration has ushered in an era of unp...

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Workplace Revenge: A Worker Bee Strikes Back

Zondra Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Black Media, Jet, Laveist Johnson, Laveist Ebony Jet, Ebony, Johnson Publishing Company, Will LaVeist, Linda Johnson Rice, John H Johnson, Chicago News
Zondra Hughes

As you read this, there is a growing scandal in the world of Black media involving Johnson Publishing Company, the parent company of Ebony/Jet magazines, and the most prestigious black-owned publishing company in the world.

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