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Media mogul Byron Allen pays $70M for Michigan TV station WJRT
After taking on General Motors and other automakers, media mogul Byron Allen is expanding his presence in Michigan, his home state. On Wednesday, Allen’s company, Allen Media Group, announced it would pay $70 million to buy WJRT from Gray Television. WJRT is the ABC affiliate in Flint-Saginaw. This deal […] Click here to view original […]
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Black Farmer in SC Wants New Land to Be ‘A Place to Heal’
Sadia Pollard at their farm in Lugoff, South Carolina on Saturday, June 19, 2021. Pollard is raising money on Go Fund Me to help build the farm, which Pollard plans on using as an educational space in addition to growing food. The 24-year-old Black farmer runs Prosper Farm, where […] Click here to view original […]
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Megachurch pastor pays $200k in reparations to Tulsa Massacre survivors
Megachurch pastor pays $200k in reparations to Tulsa Massacre survivors (STIRR, SBG) BIXBY, Okla. (WKRC) – The pastor of a megachurch has issued $200,000 reparation payments each to the three living survivors of the Tulsa Massacre. In 1921, a white mob attacked Black Tulsa residents and destroyed their homes […] Click here to view original […]
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Juneteenth Jubilee Finally A Detroit thang On The Avenue Of Fashion
When President Joe Biden signed the bill to make Juneteenth a National holiday it was just in time for the Kickoff of Juneteenth especially in Detroit! Originally Juneteenth was always celebrated In Texas, and even across heavily populated areas of the south as early in the early 1950’s and 1960’s but all of sudden it […]
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Black and minority-owned business: The road to recovery
An August 2020 Federal Reserve Board report painted a dire portrait of the effects of COVID-19 on minority-owned business, especially in Black communities. Among all small businesses, the number of active business owners fell by 22% from February to April 2020, the largest drop on record. But the racial […] Click here to view original […]