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The Philadelphia Tribune profiles the rise of Black internet based activism in it’s April addition. A number of BlackPerspective.net blog partners are quoted or mentioned in the piece.

Here are a couple of favorite highlights:

“While most blogs are created for leisure, and better reflect an online dairy, a group of bloggers know as the Afrosphere is dedicating its efforts to the progress of African Americans.”

It goes on a little while latter to say:

“This network has used it’s heft to rally around social causes and draw the nations attention to overlooked injustices, such as in the town of the once little-known Jena.

Though many have vied for credit, the organization of the mammoth descent in Jena was the property of Black bloggers, wrote Rachael Christie of the American Journalism Review in the first assessment of the media’s response to the story. For months after the fight of the Jena High School students now as the Jena Six, the media and traditional civil rights organizations were silent.”

Shaw of the Dallas South Blog also got in a mention and description of the AfroSpear.

I told you all previously about the American Journalism Review story by Rachael Christie that is quoted in this story, as I was interviewed for and in quoted in it.

You can read the article at this Phili Tribune site It’s on pages 18 through 24.

To add to the comment of the Jena 6 turnout being “the property of Black bloggers”; I was talking to Alan Bean last night, who was the first civil rights activist on the ground in Jena (January of ’07) and is the single most responsible person for what later came as he’s the one who got the story out of Jena to the rest of us. Anyhow, he noted how the issue became a “Black blog phenomenon” and how it didn’t resonate even with white progressive bloggers even after Howard Witt of the Chicago Tribune started reporting on it.

Speaking of Howard Witt, congratulations are in order for his Pulitzer Prize nomination for his reporting in breaking the Jena 6 story nationally; though he didn’t win.

For more on the rise of Black blog activism power, you might want to read my

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