February 18, 2005
Blogging While Black
AlterNet has just published Christopher Rabb's Blogging While Black, with a compelling thesis:
For those millions of us Afro-netizens who go online to shop, research, and communicate with one another, the epicenter of black life has become the media. But until the media we rely upon includes blogs in particular, we are literally ceding our best of hope of communicating and organizing amongst ourselves – two bedrocks for any viable movement for a community's uplift.
The increasing influence of the African American community which has been participating in blogging since its start is also reflected in the addition of the first Blogging While Black panel at this year's South by Southwest Interactive festival.
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