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Amsterdam News’ Wilbert A. Tatum Dies

Wilbert A. Tatum, publisher emeritus, CEO, and chairman of the board of the New York Amsterdam News, died Tuesday while vacationing with his wife, Susan, in Croatia. He was 76 years old.

Tom Joyner Back on Chicago Radio

Tom Joyner Back on Chicago Radio

To many African Americans, Tom Joyner is the king of black radio. Based in Dallas with a nationally syndicated radio show reaching some 115 markets and eight million listeners across the country, Joyner is unquestionably a radio powerhouse. So when Clear Channel, the San Antonio, TX-based media conglomerate, unceremoniously announced in March that it was replacing The Tom Joyner Morning Show with the nationally syndicated Steve Harvey Morning Show at WVAZ-FM in Chicago, Joyner fans were outraged. After all, Chicago was the first market to ever carry Joyner’s show and WVAZ-FM had aired the show for 13 years. Many Chicagoans see Joyner as a part of the city’s fabric, a part of the family.

The Giant Slayers

It was a collapse of epic proportions. The financial crisis in 2008 created an atmosphere of panic and fear not only on Wall Street but throughout the world as the bursting of a global housing bubble left financial institutions without liquidity. The Lehman Bros. bankruptcy heralded unprecedented failures for American and European banks despite governmental bailout efforts. Markets worldwide plummeted in the worst financial catastrophe since the Great Depression.

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