NEW BOSS IN TOWN
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT! With a new CEO at the helm EBONY/JET may be back to iconic status. UPDATE: EBONY/JET will not be headquartered in its former home of Chicago. Digital launch is March 1st!
Tag: publishing
Black Lives Images – Going Once, Twice, Sold!
It’s an end of an era as Johnson Publishing Company’s iconic photo archive collection is expected to go on the auction block. But if you head up to Boston’s Colby Museum, you may get a final glimpse of what could be the last time the …
How to Be a Successful Black Woman
In a new MoMA show, the twenty-nine-year-old “conceptual entrepreneur” Martine Syms takes on lessons in etiquette. She stalks film and television history for images of black women performing the mundane” Source: How to Be a Successful Black Woman
Why I’m devoting a year to helping black newspapers survive
As black communities risk being overlooked by many newsrooms, so do black newspapers risk being overlooked or undervalued by advertisers. During the next year, I’ll study family, legacy and the viability of black newspapers in America as a Knight-Wallace fellow. When I first returned to the Richmond …
#ShePersisted How TSR Founder built her Digital Media Empire.
Angelica Nwandu merged her celebrity obsession and love of writing to create The Shade Room. For the first nine months, I was blogging on my own — all day, all night, and I didn’t sleep. I didn’t make any money. Friends would say, “You’re wasting …
12-year-old Activist Lands Book Publishing Deal
Tired of the school’s reading list filled with white boy and dog protagonist, Marley Dias kicked off her own hashtag #1000BlackGirlBooks, last January, which featured Black girls as stars of their stories. She achieved her goal of collecting and donating books with black girls as …