Advertisers are drawing up plans to reach the African-American community, and the largest part of it goes on radio advertising, which is unusual, according to the trade journal Mediaweek.
Archive for January, 2008
America’s law schools, which historically have had a major African-American presences, are facing a shocking decline in the number of graduating minority students. The Baruch College newspaper reports on what they’re trying to do about it.
Toni Morrison, who famously called Bill Clinton ‘our first Black President’, is endorsing Obama’s campaign, the New York Times reports.
However, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports the Clinton campaign is balancing Toni Morrison’s support for Obama with a radio appeal for Hillary Clinton from Maya Angelou - as well as Magic Johnson.
In the wake of criticism of Bill Clinton over those comments, the New York Times talks to residents of Harlem and discovers that support for the former President is undiminished.
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Jackson was a Challenger
A London Times editor says that Bill Clinton’s comments comparing Obama to Jesse Jackson were not because they were both of the same race, but to try and indicate that their campaigns share the same ‘challenger’ character.
