{"id":15533,"date":"2025-03-20T16:13:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T16:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=15533"},"modified":"2025-03-20T16:13:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T16:13:33","slug":"toledo-city-council-recognizes-toledo-black-media-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/toledo-city-council-recognizes-toledo-black-media-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Toledo City Council Recognizes Toledo Black Media Week"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Toledo’s Black Media with Toledo City Council<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Truth Staff<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, March 11, the Toledo City Council passed a resolution recognizing and honoring Toledo Black Media by declaring\u00a0 the Week of March 16 as Toledo Black Media Week. The resolution was inspired by the State of Ohio\u2019s passage of a law in February that designated the week of March 16 as Ohio Black Media Week. That state resolution was initiated and promoted by State Representative Elgin Rogers.<\/p>\n

The City Council resolution was drafted by Councilwomen Cerssandra McPherson and Brittany Jones, PhD. and presented a look at the recent history of Toledo Black media and the impact on the community.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlack print and electronic media have a rich and important history in contributing to the diverse voices of greater Toledo,\u201d the resolution began.<\/p>\n

Then the council resolution ticked off the various Black media entities that have served the Black community over the past 80 years:<\/p>\n

\u201cFrances Belcher was the founder and publisher of the Bronze Raven, a weekly newspaper, published from 1947 to 1976 \u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Deb Hogan of The Juice, 107.3_ Fletcher Word of The Truth_ Stayce Fowler of Stalwart Magazine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cCharles Welch \u201cCharlie Mack\u201d started The Juice FM 107.3 (WJUC) and entered the history books by becoming the first African American in Ohio to start a radio station from the ground up \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Toledo Journal, Sandra Stwart, publisher, and Myron Stewart, editor, a National Black Chamber of Commerce award winning newspaper \u2026 proudly serving Toledo and Northwest Ohio since 1975 \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Sojourner\u2019s Truth published by, for and about the African-American community, with Fletcher Word as publisher and editor, began publication in April 2002 \u2026 and is an innovative weekly newspaper \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Stalwart Magazine, with Stayce Fowler as publisher and editor, is a publication that is dedicated to celebrating the accomplishments of individuals in the community, with a particular focus on those from minority backgrounds \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

The City Council resolution also recognized the efforts of Toledo\u2019s Black media entities to form the Black Wall Street Community Development group that formed a year and a half ago in an effort to foster collaboration among Toledo\u2019s Black-owned businesses. The founding members are Rick and Deb Hogan of The Juice; Toni Battle Gaines of The Juice; Word of The Truth and Kristie Knighten of KpK.<\/p>\n

After reading the resolution, various council members took turns thanking and praising the Black media companies for their efforts in the community.<\/p>\n

Toledo Black Media Week is part of a state-wide effort to recognize Black media. Earlier this year, State Representative Elgin Rogers wrote a bill, later signed by Governor DeWine recognizing Ohio Black Media Week \u2013 March 16.<\/p>\n

The history of Black Media in the United States began almost two centuries ago when the first Black-owned newspaper was published \u2013 Freedom\u2019s Journal in New York on March 16,1827 by Jamaican-born John Brown Russwurm, Bowdoin College\u2019s first African American graduate and only the third Black person to graduate from an American college, and Samuel Eli Cornish, a graduate of the Free African School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who also founded Shiloh Presbyterian Church, the first Black Presbyterian church in Manhattan in 1822.<\/p>\n

In Toledo, in addition to the Bronze Raven, early Black-owned media newspapers included the Toledo Observer in the 1940s and the Toledo Script in the 1950s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Truth Staff On Tuesday, March 11, the Toledo City Council passed a resolution recognizing and honoring Toledo Black Media by declaring\u00a0 the Week of March 16 as Toledo Black Media Week. The resolution was inspired by the State of Ohio\u2019s passage of a law in February that designated the week of March 16 as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,250,17],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[285],"class_list":["post-15533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-local-news","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15537,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15533\/revisions\/15537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15533"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=15533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}