Black Voice News is the first
Black American
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online news publication on the
West Coast of the United States
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. Founded in 1972 as a print
newspaper
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Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports a ...
, it was still active (as of 2020) and had moved to online publication.
[The Press Enterprise, "BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Inland black communities have deep history, many feats", By SUZANNE HURT, Published on February 11, 201]
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History
* 1972 – The Black Voice News is started by students at University of California, Riverside
The University of California, Riverside (UCR or UC Riverside) is a public land-grant research university in Riverside, California. It is one of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The main campus sits on in a suburban distr ...
Hardy Brown
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and Cheryl Brown
Cheryl Renee Brown (born February 11, 1944) is an American politician who served in the California State Assembly, representing the 47th Assembly District, encompassing parts of the Inland Empire. She is a Democrat.
In 2016, Brown was defeat ...
and Brown Publishing Company is formed.
* 1999 – September 20, http://www.blackvoicenews.com is registered and the online publication is launched.
* 2013 – Dr. Paulette Brown-Hinds takes over as Publisher
* 2015 – BVN 2.0 is launched as http://www.blackvoicenews.com expands its presence across California
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References
Further reading
* "Oppositional Discourses and Democracies", (ed. Michael Huspek), Routledge (2009), p. 220,
(analysis)
External links
Official website
Student newspapers published in California
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