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Follow on Google News | The Bonn Group Announces Month Long Celebration in October Honoring Black MediaChicago, IL (July 10, 2008) -- The Bonn Group (www.thebonngroup.com), has launched the very first BLACK MEDIA MONTH to be celebrated during the entire month of October, celebrating Black owned and operated media.
By: Sharon Carson The Bonn Group Announces Month Long Celebration in October Honoring Black Media The Black Online News Network (BONN) proudly launches the first month long celebration honoring the accomplishments in Black media. Chicago, IL (July 10, 2008) -- The Bonn Group (www.thebonngroup.com) Freedom's Journal was the first black-owned and operated newspaper in the United States and was founded on March 16, 1827 as a four-page, four-column standard-sized weekly. Freedom's Journal provided international, national and regional information on current events and contained editorials declaiming slavery, lynching and other injustices. But, this publication which was so important at this time in American History, went out of business after only two years of publication with financial problems cited as a major contributing factor. Today, Black media is still being challenged by economic decline, dwindling revenue, and the inability to attract enough advertising even though African American's buying power reached 744 billion dollars in 2006 according to Target Market News, The Black Consumer Market Authority. BLACK MEDIA MONTH, according to The Bonn Group, will provide an excellent opportunity for Black media to increase readership and audience, and will show potential advertisers that there is a plethora of invaluable resources available within Black owned and operated media. During BLACK MEDIA MONTH, Americans of all ethnicities be will encouraged to explore today's Black media by reading newspapers and magazines, visiting blogs and web sites published and written by and for African Americans. To read novels, drama, and poetry written by black authors, watch black films and television, listen to black radio stations, and so forth. The Bonn Group believes that BLACK MEDIA MONTH will serve to get past the negative coverage of African Americans and help to develop a better understanding of Black culture and media today. It will show the diversity of opinion among African Americans and will reveal that many of their problems, as well as their interests, are remarkably similar to those of the nation at large. While one of the most important contributions of Black media has been its focus on issues affecting a diverse nation of Black Americans, BLACK MEDIA MONTH will show that Black media is a diverse, global minded, reliable, credible and informational resource that is involved in the economic, social and political debates taking place throughout the nation and the entire world. The Bonn Group will initiate a national campaign to promote a discussion of Black media during BLACK MEDIA MONTH via a promotional outreach to major media outlets, communications departments at colleges and universities, public schools and library systems, government entities, newspapers, the internet, and other identifiable resources. For more information, visit the site at www.thebonngroup.com. Contact Information: Sharon Carson (773) 568-2274 info@thebonngroup.com www.thebonngroup.com About the Bonn Group The Black Online News Network (BONN) is the largest network of news and topical information web sites targeted to African Americans. The network consist of 100 popular web sites that are updated daily with the latest news and information on a diverse array of topics relative to an equally diverse African American internet community. A complete list of web sites in the BONN Network can be found at www.thebonngroup.com. # # # The Bonn Group publishes a network of 100 web sites covering a diverse range of mainstream topics that are targeted to African Americans End
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