November 16, 2005

Detroit black press under attack

An ad than ran in Detroit's two black newspapers, which accused the media of unfair treatment of incumbent mayor Kwame Kilpatrick during the election campaign, has triggered calls for a boycott of those newspapers, the Michigan Citizen and the Michigan Chronicle. Professor Howard Starks of Wayne State 's Africana Studies Department said, " Detroit is over 80 percent African American in population. Who would a boycott really hurt? . . . These papers are the only true voices we have in our community. In a black city we should be talking about how to stop our papers from struggling financially." (This article appeared originally in the Michigan Citizen.)

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