Making Real Change: Taking on Black Commercial Radio
Black Agenda Report, May 22, 2008
By Bruce Dixon
Commercial broadcasters who aim their programming at black audiences are used to considering us only as a passive market. But if black America is more than a market, if it is a polity, then it's time to demand that black-oriented media, whoever owns it, serve black communities.
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