Introducing USA Radical Black – the New “Brother” Blog of IBNN
By Kandis Style – Staff Journalist/IBNN
London, UK/Minneapolis, MN. – Nov. 12 / IBNN News/ – USA Radical Black is pleased to announce the launch of its controversial new web site www.usaradicalblack.com . The site is the result of the massive demand for information related to the American Black experience. Our goal is to provide our visitors with a virtual experience that is compelling and life altering and to inspire the marginalized, and voiceless.
“The virtual world can never match being present at a protest, or a rally; however, we strive to ignite a cyber movement “in real time” every day,” say Don Allen, Editor in Chief of IBNN and Minister of Information for USA Radical Black.
User can easily access archival and cross-referenced information and use our links and references for researching issues and forming their own opinions. The upgraded site also enables our online visitors and members an easy, instant, and secure way to register for programs, make donations, and purchase products from USA Radical Black online store.
The site allows our visitors to create individual profiles indicating specific topics of interest for communications and specialized website content. Users will also enjoy that their profiles will be securely saved for future transactions and can be updated at any time by logging in. Bookmarking and social media tags are also embedded throughout the site so that visitors can share USA Radical Black news and information with others on sites like Facebook, MySpace, and Del.icio.us.
In the future, expect to see live webcasts, high profile interviews, watch dog activities, and strategic alliances with progressive organizations that truly make a difference in people’s lives.
About USA Radical Black
“USA Radical Black – Truth to the People/Power to the People…Now!”
USA Radical Black was created by the Independent Business News Networks editor in chief Donald W.R. Allen, II to address disparities in Black and minority-ethnic leadership roles in the United States.
USA Radical Black also covers News and Information about Politics, Education, Money, Community, Religion, Race, Status and Class as it relates to us.
USA Radical Black is themed to be a “wake-up call” to people of color in the United States who have done the same thing the same way, creating insanity by electing the same party officials that have created problems over-and-over again while in the background tasking people they feel comfortable with to “solve” problems for pay and political favors.
We will explore the changing of the Black Church as it pertains to us as a people of color getting back to our roots with God, Family and Prosperity. Does a well funded Foundation or Social Service Agency have more power than GOD?
Join USA Radical Black for Truth to the People and Power to the People – if not now, when?
Part 1: News Coverage of the 2009 Minneapolis Elections
By Donald W.R. Allen,II – editor in chief of IBNN, soon to present USA BLACK RADICAL.COM
This is a four part series that covers what happened in the news as IBNN saw it: favoritism to the DFL incumbents in the 2009 election cycle in Minneapolis. IBNN will cover what happened in the mainstream media and the Black Press, providing interviews with registered voters who read the Star Tribune and watched television stations WCCO 4 and KARE 11, and thus had no idea that 2009 was a municipal election year.
While on Election Day, the Minneapolis Urban League’s president R. Scott Gray hung out at Broadway Pizza with the CM Don Samuels group, the community suffered again with the lack of information about the 2009 Minneapolis Elections.
We hold the above-mentioned news agencies responsible.
Truth to the People – Power to the People, if not now…when?
Minneapolis’ Star Tribune paper is responsible, in part, for the lack of information received by the general public concerning the 2009 election cycle. The Star Tribune is the largest newspaper in Minnesota. Its broadsheet covers the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area.
In the recent election season, as well as the 2008 congressional campaign, political insiders from all parties watched in awe as the Star Tribune employed very selective parameters, giving the lion’s share of coverage only to DFL incumbents.
The 2009 Minneapolis mayor’s race had a field of 11 candidates, ranging from community activist Al Flowers to Minneapolis businessman Papa John Kolstad. Candidates like Richard Fransen, who reportedly spent over $14,000 on his campaign, went virtually unnoticed by the “Strib.”
Al Flowers’ minor legal troubles, which were dismissed for lack of evidence, were covered by the Star Tribune in a play-by-play reminiscent of a Minnesota Vikings football game.
Much like the Strib’s coverage of the minority-ethnic community, murder, death, and drug related crimes seem to be the priority for Minneapolis/St. Paul daily paper.
The Strib’s coverage of the 2009 Election cycle confirms the adage, “It’s not what you know – it’s who you know.”
Some things the Star Tribune did were a “gimmie.” Such as their endorsement of former employee and incumbent R.T. Rybak was one.
The popularity created by the Strib for the “fresh-faced, Minneapolis metro-sexual White-boy” let R.T. take full advantage of his miss-steps in city government by promoting and covering Rybak like the “Brett Favre of city politics” skewed the 2009 mayor’s race R.T.’s favor.
Rather than the Star Tribune or their partner station WCCO-4 covering the news objectively, the reality left much to be concerned about. Apparently, “news that’s fair and balanced” is only a FOX News slogan in Minneapolis.
With 238 stories mentioning the keywords, R.T. Rybak, compared to 6 stories for Papa John Kolstad and Bob Carney; 39 for Al Flowers; and 3 for William McGaughey, it’s clear that the Strib’s interest was having R.T. Rybak stay in office.
Many Minneapolis residents wondered if an election was really going on in 2009.
The Black Press in Minneapolis had issues as well.
Mixed messages were the flavor of the week in north Minneapolis’ Insight News.
The paper publicly endorsed Kenya McKnight for Ward 5 city council.
But in the last weeks of the campaign season, Insight News ran publicity shots of Congressman Keith Ellison shaking hands with incumbent Don Samuels, thus playing journalistic hoola-hoop in the weeks running up to the election. Mixed messages from the north Minneapolis paper confused the readers and political strategists, who wondered who they actually supported.
Other problems were evident at the Ward 5 debate sponsored by McFarlane Media and Insight News held at the new University of Minnesota/UROC building in north Minneapolis. Don Samuels declined the invite, and less than 20 people showed up for the event. IBNN attributes this to lack of coalition building and lack of a clear marketing strategy.
While Kenya McKnight received 336 first round votes (15.5%) Natalie Johnson Lee has received 649 (30.05%). At this writing there is no clear winner in the Ward 5 Minneapolis city council race. Incumbent Don Samuels has only 46.99% of the vote, and the new Rank Choice Voting system is the “ringer.”
When all is said and done, the mainstream media and Black Press misrepresented or confused the field of possible choices in 2009.
The mission of the press is to inform and empower the voters.
We find that they failed in their mission.
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