The Original Black Media King

Subject

Media; Entrepreneurship; Advertising

Description

In the late 1950s, long before he would be appreciated as one of the country’s most prominent Black media executives, Byron Lewis had a job working the weekend shift on the classified pages of The New York Times.

Creator

Ginia Bellafante

Source

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/22/nyregion/byron-lewis-urbanite-black-advertising.html?smid=li-share

Publisher

nytimes.com

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