Arianna Huffington Announces BlackVoices Section

Arianna Huffington, editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group, Thursday announced the launching of BlackVoices, a new section on HuffingtonPost.com that will feature reports on news, cultural events and trends from a black perspective.

Huffington made the announced during the National Black Journalists convention in Philadelphia, PA.

“Surveying the current national and international landscape, I often feel that we are living in a split-screen world,"Huffington said. "And depending on what part of the screen you are looking at, you will have a very different perception of where things stand. Nowhere is this split-screen reality more pronounced than in the African-American community.”

The site will not just focus on the “bleak picture” of African-American life but its successes, Huffington said.

Overseeing the site will be Managing Editor Rebecca Carroll, the author of several books, including Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America. Christina Norman, former president of MTV and CEO of OWN, is the executive editor and entrepreneur Sheila Johnson, co-founder of BET, is a strategic adviser.

The Huffington Post Media Group also oversees Patch.com.

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