afamreport.com, the African American “Virtual Newsstand” Debuts Across America

The 21st Century Internet Newsstand for the America’s Black Community, afamreport.com, Launches Operations.

Philadelphia, PA (PRWEB) April 2, 2006 -- afamreport.com, the online media resource of African-American interest periodicals and Internet websites, is open and ready for reading. The African American Report (http://www.afamreport.com) combines the most popular headline news and sports sites with African American newspapers, national opinion and sports columnists, magazines, black-interest websites and blogs, plus news from the continent, to create a virtual newsstand of information at your computer keyboard.

“afamreport.com is an Internet portal designed to make news and reading materials relevant to the black community available at a single, convenient site,” says Sid Holmes, one of the site’s founders. “We are black America’s ‘virtual newsstand’.”

Similar in concept to a wood and nails newsstand, afamreport.com is divided into separate sections: Headlines, Sports Headlines, regional African American Newspapers, Black Commentary, Life & Style, Magazines, AfricanNews and a College/Greek higher education section devoted to HBCUs, scholarship information and greek letter organizations. “RapCity” is a compilation of music, lifestyle and hip hop sites placed on a separate page. In addition, the site features a daily news and a daily sports article, a spotlight article updated twice weekly, and a “Site of the Week” highlighting a black interest website.

afamreport.com is the one Internet destination where “Ebony”, “Black Enterprise”, and the “Amsterdam News” sit side by side with Stephen A. Smith, “Ghettosoul” and Clarence Page, Holmes said. The wide array of news, information and entertainment sources speaks to the site’s mission of making online reading material as accessible and easy to find as possible for web surfers, and is true to the afamreport’s motto, “Whatever you do, read as much as you can.”

The spotlight article showcases issues affecting the African American population, and is intended to serve as a platform for providing widespread exposure to news articles receiving minimal national media attention, hence escaping the notice of the black audience. The premier article is a feature about Beulah Johnnie Hurd Mercer, an Austin, Texas woman who celebrated her 100th birthday earlier this year and, whose father was a slave. Although her story was posted on a local news website, “a circumstance this incredible is worthy of more widespread media attention,” Holmes asserts. “There is a wealth of content and information begging to be brought to a larger mass audience. We are poised and ready to become the preeminent online news source for African Americans.”

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