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Blackvoices.com was an American website with content targeted towards African-American culture. Founded in 1995, by Barry Cooper, it first appeared as a link on the Orlando Sentinel website. [1] After being sold twice, it has become a subsection named Black Voices on the HuffPost website.
Early on, 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.[ citation needed ] Later, the site was sold to AOL-Time Warner. Although the site had content targeted towards African-American culture, the site was no longer black-owned.
At its peak, Blackvoices.com was structured with news articles, a messageboard, and blogs. Users had to be a member of AOL to join the site.
In October 2000, General Motors 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, The Huffington Post has removed the messageboard.
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