Oldest African American newspaper notes 125th anniversary When Christopher J. Perry launched the Philadelphia Tribune, he faced a readership problem that makes today’s newspaper industry woes seem trivial. The Tribune was founded in 1884, when the city had only 108,000 African Americans, few of them literate. (Philadelphia Inquirer)
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Urban Media News Report: 5.25.09
Game Over. The Rise and Fall of Black Shows on Television The cancellation of CW’s The Game, represents the final nail in the coffin for African American shows on network TV. Over the past decade, there were a handful of black shows, sitcoms to be particular, that saw the light of day. Once upon a [...]
