Real Times Inc.
| Private | |
| Founded | January 2003 |
| Headquarters |
Buhl Building, Suite 1300, 535 Griswold Street, Detroit, Michigan 48226, United States |
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Area served
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Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Memphis, Pittsburgh metro areas |
| Products | Weekly newspapers and other publications catering to the African-American community |
| Website | RealTimesMedia.com |
Real Times Media LLC is the owner and publisher of the Chicago Defender, the largest and most influential African-American weekly newspaper, as well as five other regional weeklies in the eastern and Midwestern United States. Its headquarters are in Midtown Detroit.
The company was founded in January 2003 by a consortium of Chicago and Detroit business leaders to take over the assets of Sengstacke Enterprises Inc., the longtime owner of five of the papers.
Robert Sengstacke Abbott founded the Chicago Defender in 1905, billing it the "World's Greatest Weekly". The Defender served the growing African-American community of Chicago, which was often ignored by the mainstream newspapers of the day. Sengstacke also used the Defender as a means to grow the community, writing stories about Northern city life that enticed African-American residents of the Southern United States to move to Chicago, a phenomenon that came to be known as the Great Migration. Like other giants of the contemporary black press, the Defender enjoyed substantial circulation across the nation.
Abbott's nephew John H. Sengstacke, who became publisher in 1940, was a founder of the National Negro Publishers Association, later renamed the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), which now has 200 member black newspapers.
On February 6, 1956, the Defender became a daily newspaper and changed its name to the Chicago Daily Defender, the nation's second black daily newspaper (after the Atlanta Daily World, founded in 1928). It published as a daily until 2003, when new owners converted the Defender back to a weekly.
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