Washington Post Creates Online Magazine for Blacks
Thanks to MyUrbanReport.com for posting on this. Somehow, I overlooked it in The New York Times, but the new online magazine is called the ROOT and Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr is the magazine's editor. The magazine's target audience is black, and will feature commentary on politics, news, culture and tools to research family history.
According to the NY Times, the site is viewed as a "high brow" alternative to sites such as Ebony, BlackAmericaWeb.com, and BlackVoices.com. These sites have high entertainment, lifestyle, and consumption content; however, the Root will distinguish itself by putting more emphasis on genealogy. I hope it has more success than Africana.com, which quietly disappeared and now has its traffic re-directed to BlackVoices.com.
Reference: www.theroot.com
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I was turned on to this last week. I visited and reviewed the site for a while. It's pretty good. I am such a fan of Gates. I still look at the Encarta Africana that he created all the time.