Extortion!-----Black-owned media targeted GM. Ford and Stellantis are next

Black-owned media targeted GM. Ford and Stellantis are next

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  Black-owned media taking on Ford, Stellantis after battling with GM

"After winning commitments from General Motors to do more business, leaders of some Black-owned media organizations now are driving their campaign toward Ford Motor Co. and Stellantis.
Media mogul Byron Allen, who owns The Weather Channel among dozens of other TV properties, has asked the two other members of the Detroit Three automakers to discuss increasing their advertising spending with Black-owned media companies.
Separately, Ben Chavis, CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, which represents 230 Black-owned newspapers, said he is seeking meetings with automakers, including Ford, about spending more with the media the NNPA represents. 

Chavis is a longtime civil rights activist who in 1993 became the youngest person to serve as executive director and CEO of the NAACP. 

Chavis was appointed national director of the Million Man March and helped organize the march in the nation's capital in 2000...Read all.