Blackvoices.com

Blackvoices.com is an American historical website. The entity appeared on the internet in 1995.[1] According to Streetroachpics.com, Blackvoices.com first appeared under link on the Orlando Sentinel website. Barry Cooper was the founder of the African-American messageboard and news website.

Overview

Cooper's website received a five million-dollar investment from Tribune Company, the parent company of the Orlando Sentinel. From there, Blackvoices.com grew and eventually gained over a million registered users. Later, the site was sold to AOL-Time Warner. Although the site had content targeted towards African-American culture, the site was never black-owned or brought by a black majority-owned company. At is peak, Blackvoices.com was structured with news articles, a messageboard, and blogs. You had to be a member of AOL to join the site.

In October 2000, General Motors Corp. announced a multimillion-dollar three-year deal to advertise on the site.[2][3]

Some members were upset with the sale of Blackvoices.com from Tribune to AOL and then from AOL to the Huffington Post. Although under AOL the messageboard stayed intact with some changes, Huffington Post has removed the messageboard.

References

Ebony. June 2000. p. 46. Retrieved 2011-08-12.
"GM Inks Deal with BlackVoices.com". Computerworld. 2000-10-06. Retrieved 2012-11-03.
"General Motors Corp. and BlackVoices.com form 3-year strategic marketing alliance." Indianapolis Recorder. October 13, 2000. (subscription required)

Additional sources

Manor, Robert (February 13, 2004). “AOL acquires Tribune Co.'s BlackVoices Internet site.” Chicago Tribune.
Lazaroff, Leon (December 20, 2003). “BlackVoices Web site faces shutdown.” Chicago Tribune. (subscription required)
Wilde, Candee (February 7, 2000). “Recruiters Discover Diverse Value In Web Sites". Information Week Magazine, pp. 2–3.
“AOL Appoints New Chief of Black Voices Service.”. July 11, 2005, The Washington Post. (subscription required)
Hawkins Jr., Lee (October 13, 1997).“Black Voices heard on the Web: Lack of competition helps fuel growth of service for African-Americans.” Journal Sentinel. (subscription required)
“BET and Partners to Launch Black-oriented Portal with a $35 Million Investment, BET.com Aims to Attract One of the Fastest -Growing Segments of Online Users.” August 13, 1999. Philadelphia Inquirer. (subscription required)

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[1] Ebony. June 2000. p. 46. Retrieved 2011-08-12.

[2] "GM Inks Deal with BlackVoices.com". Computerworld. 2000-10-06. Retrieved 2012-11-03.

[3] "General Motors Corp. and BlackVoices.com form 3-year strategic marketing alliance." Indianapolis Recorder. October 13, 2000. (subscription required)