Black journalist look to buy Ebony Magazine

A group of black journalist are looking to buy Ebony Magazine. One of the groups says, “We want to maintain [Ebony founder] John H. Johnson’s dream that the control and ownership continue to be in African-American hands,”

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Is Ebony Magazine for sale?

An advertising slump is hammering the nation’s oldest magazine devoted to African-American life. That Magazine Ebony Magazine may be for sale by it’s publisher Johnson Publishing in an effort to keep the magazine alive.

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Video: President Obama discusses race on Sunday talk shows

President Obama visited many news outlets to discuss everything BUT racism and wound up dicussing it on almost every one of these shows. President Obama danced his way around this question several times on Sunday.

While many may want him to speak on the issue so that the country can have a real discussion on race there are those that are waiting to pounce claiming that the President is playing the race card.

It’s a shame that a president is expected to talk about life or death situations like war and healthcare but not about race?

Check out his responses on the question of race on NBC, ABC & CNN.

President Obama on race

An Open Letter to black radio. ( Cathy Hughes and Radio One )

Paul Porter of Industryears.com has written an open letter to Radio One founder Cathy Hughes asking for more news and informative talk on the black radio stations she owns. This is a message not just to radio One but to all of black radio:

Read the letter here:
An Open Letter To Black Radio

Black newspaper publishers call Joe Wilson racist and boycott South Carolina

Black newspaper publishers say Congressman Joe Wilson is racist and are boycotting South Carolina. The NNPA better known as Black Press US has joined the NAAACP in it’s boycott of South Carolina and has cancelled it’s Jan 2010 convention in South Carolina

NNPA boycotting South Carolina

BMW not advertising on black radio?

One of the auto-maker’s BMW advertising agencies in issuing a ‘No Urban Dictate’ for an upcoming BMW/MINI Cooper radio ad campaign.

No Urban Dictate is a fancy way of saying no advertising on black radio. I knew there was a reason I always liked Audi better. Read the entire story by clicking the link below:

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After racist comments by host advertisers leave Glenn Beck Show

Due to a campaign by colorofchange.org several major advertisers like wal-Mart, Beast Buy and Gieco have left the Glenn Beck Show which airs in Fox News.

In July Beck said that President Obama is a racist who has a “deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.”

Beck called President Obama a racist who has a “deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.”

Click the link below to see which other advertisers who have left the show:

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National Media finally covering story of serial killer killing black women in North Carolina

National media finally covering story of serial killer killing black women in Rocky Mount North Carolina. See coverage from CNN, Fox News, USA Today, and the Associated Press here:

http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/LTHSpecialReport.html

African American Media struggling to survive

Just like mainstream media, African American publications and media outlets are struggling. Minority broadcasters have asked the Treasury Secretary for what amounts to a temporary bailout to keep afloat. Read the entire article here:

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Bill Cosby shocked by Obama’s comments on Gates arrest

On a Boston morning radio program , Bill Cosby suggested that President Obama spoke too soon on the controversial arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates.

“I’ve heard about five different reports [on the details of the arrest],” Cosby said on Boston’s WZLX. “If I’m the president of the United States, I don’t care how much pressure people want to put on it about race, I’m keeping my mouth shut.” Watch the interview by using the link below:

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