(NAME-MCE) Washington Post Starts an Online Magazine for Blacks (The New York Times)

[Aukram Burton]

Washington Post Starts an Online Magazine for Blacks (The New York  
Times)

By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
Published: January 28, 2008

In attempt to broaden its online audience, The Washington Post Company  
on Monday is to introduce an online magazine primarily for a black  
audience, with news and commentary on politics and culture, and tools  
for readers to research their family histories.

Henry Louis Gates Jr., a writer and a professor of African and African- 
American studies at Harvard, is the editor in chief of the magazine,  
called The Root, which he conceived with Donald E. Graham, chief  
executive of the company. The magazine is based in Washington, free to  
readers and will be found at   www.theroot.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/28/business/media/28post.html