IN MEMORIAM: Thomas H. Watkins Built What Black Media Was Told Could Not Last

IN MEMORIAM: Thomas H. Watkins Built What Black Media Was Told Could Not Last

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent Thomas H. Watkins built a daily Black newspaper in New York City when few believed it could survive and even fewer wanted it to succeed. Watkins, who died in December at 88, founded the New York Daily Challenge and made it the first Black-owned daily newspaper in the city’s history. From its headquarters in Bedford-Stuyvesant, the paper delivered sustained, unapologetic coverage of Bl…

Black HistoryMore Than a Biopic: “Michael” and the Power of a Global Icon – Free Press of Jacksonville

NNPA NEWSWIRE — By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent | The Beatles conquered an era and a hemisphere. Elvis owned America. Jackson belonged to the planet. His face, his glove, his lean-forward stance before the beat dropped were recognized in villages without electricity and cities that never slept. Only Muhammad Ali matched that level of global recognition, and even Ali did not moonwalk into living rooms every night. T…