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Roland Sebastian Martin ... He is the former executive editor of the Chicago Defender. From 2005 to 2008, Martin hosted a morning radio talk show on WVON in Chicago, ...
Martin toiled for a number of Black-owned outlets — he ran the Chicago Defender and launched the digital platform for Tom Joyner’s syndicated radio program.
Standing in the middle of the Media Row section at the United Center, veteran journalist Roland S. Martin made a bold statement on the first night of the Democratic National Convention. His ...
View Article The post Roland Martin on ‘Urban One Honors’ and the state of Black media appeared first on TheGrio. This year’s Urban One Honors, which airs on TV One on Sunday at 9 p.m., has ...
The Chicago Defender's editor and founder Robert Sengstacke Abbott played a major role in influencing the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North by means of strong, moralistic rhetoric in his editorials and political cartoons, the promotion of Chicago as a destination, and the advertisement of successful black individuals as inspiration for blacks in the ...
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On February 6, 1956, the Defender became a daily newspaper and changed its name to the Chicago Daily Defender, the nation's second black daily newspaper (after the Atlanta Daily World, founded in 1928). It published as a daily until 2003, when new owners converted the Defender back to a weekly. Sengstacke also built his newspaper into a chain.