The Black News Channel, the first 24-hour news channel aimed specifically at an African American audience, is set to launch on Feb. 10 to coincide with blackhistorymonth.
the same month as the Defender, after struggling to pay its writers amid a difficult bankruptcy.
Tiffany Walden was one of the Ebony writers who never got paid, and she is named in a lawsuit filed against the now-defunct magazine. She runs her own digital media outlet called The Triibe, which she co-founded with video journalist Morgan Johnson in 2017. The website covers the African American community in Chicago, and its stated goal is to “re-shape the narrative of black Chicago” by putting control of that narrative back in the hands of black storytellers and content creators.
“It matters who owns these publications. The people, the communities, the content creators, the storytellers, we should be owning our media companies,” she said. “It would have been a breath of fresh air to have something like this. But I just can't get past the fact that it’s run by two Republican white men.”And BNC’sFord echoed Walden’s skepticism.
Chavis, the NNPA president, has a long history of fighting for African Americans’ civil rights. In his youth he was an assistant to Martin Luther King Jr. and rose to prominence as a member of the Wilmington Ten, who were wrongly convicted of arson and conspiracy in 1971 in North Carolina . He said that he sees the NNPA’s partnership with Watts’ BNC as an important example of bipartisan cooperation toward a common goal.
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