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Support Socially Conscious Black Owned Media

                                     Support Socially Responsible Black Owned Media

                                                             Junious Ricardo Stanton

            For over twenty years I have been associated with Black Internet radio; first with Don Rojas’ Website and Internet radio station The Black World Today back in 2000. When that went defunct, I went with Neil Blake’s Rainbow Soul and Music Massage channels, then to Onion Horton’s New Black City, then to Dalani Ammon’s Harambee Radio and to Keidi Obi Awadu’s  www.LIBRadio.com’s Falcon Forum. I briefly produced and hosted a program on the Before It’s News Website Internet Radio station. I say all this to let you know Internet radio has been a big part of my life for decades, I was a pioneering in Internet radio. I’ve been a producer and host for several talk shows, I’ve been a DJ playing socially conscious music on my Message in The Music shows on two Internet radio stations before they went out of existence. I also produced podcasts and video-casts for years on several platforms.

            Prior to Internet radio I produced and hosted a program on WHAT radio 1340 AM in Philadelphia called Positively Black for ten years. I’ve been a community journalist and columnist since the 1990’s and at one time I was syndicated weekly by the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) an organization of over 200 Black owned newspapers around the country. In Philadelphia, I wrote for : SCOOP USA, Renaissance Magazine, The Philadelphia New Observer, Real News, The Black Business Review On The Scene Magazine and occasionally The West Side Weekly. I also wrote for About Time Magazine out of Rochester New York for several years.

            I’m not saying this to toot my own horn but to reflect on over thirty years of media involvement and engagement. Looking back, I was motivated to use my skills to promote, celebrate and uplift my people because I knew the general market media (White media) was never going to treat us fairly, honestly tell our stories or share our rich history and contributions not only to this country but the world. So, I took it upon myself to do just that and quite frankly most times I didn’t get paid and if I did it was not what I could have commanded in the general market papers as a freelancer.

This happened not because Black publishers were cheap but because they were barely scraping by, they were struggling to pay to get the paperers printed or the radio station (terrestrial and Internet) profitable because they couldn’t get the crucial advertising support from Black or White businesses and advertisers.

This has been an ongoing historical pattern since Freedom’s Journal the first Black newspaper was founded in New York City by Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm two “free” Blacks in 1827.  Their mission was to offer a rebuttal to and provide a powerful and articulate alternative to the slander, denigration and lies the White press printed about people of African descent!  We are still subjected to that in 2026!

Since 1827, Black media has always had to struggle to survive especially during the enslavement, Post Reconstruction legalized apartheid periods and today’s divisive anti-Black social milieu.  I am a witness to this first hand as I have served as a writer, an editor and I’ve produced terrestrial and Internet radio program content for decades. I brokered or purchased the time on WHAT so I had to come up with a way to cover the cost. I was able to secure a few loyal advertisers before Cody Anderson the owner graciously allowed me to do the show free of cost.

            I admired the work Acel Moore and Reggie Bryant did once they founded the National Association of Black Journalists; their pioneering work was responsible for getting many Blacks into general market media in news, radio and television. Their groundbreaking television program Black Perspective on the News was a seminal work and garnered praise and recognition throughout the industry.  It was syndicated on PBS. However, I was never interested in that, I wanted and still want to help build Black media and carve out a solid sustainable niche for us.

I have contributed to White stations and social media platforms so I have no issue or problems collaborating with anyone. I feel it is my calling to be a voice and contributor to conscious and progressive Black media, especially in times such as these where our voices are being muffled, censored and suppressed by algorithms, editors and special interest groups who want to negate us altogether.

I say all of this to urge you to support socially and politically conscious Black owned media whether it is print, radio, Internet or streaming. We must have our own voice and offer our own perspectives beyond the clap-trap and gaslighting we are subjected to on a daily basis. We deserve better programming than the stereotypical depictions even Black producers foist on us as: thugs, hyper-sexualized, vulgar and profane caricatures we see in the films, TV shows, videos and songs in the marketplace today. 

As a people we are better than that and we should display our better side to ourselves and the world. Notice in most commercial we are always dancing and playing sports; we do more than that and we should tell stories and depict ourselves in ways which show our diversity, resilience and successes. We need media to do this! Support conscious Black media!

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Current Trends, What You Need to KNow

                                                    Current Trends, What You Need to Know

                                                              Junious Ricardo Stanton

            Every day highly paid script/copy readers, shills, propagandists and sycophants proport to tell us the “news” however, what they are really doing is gaslighting and lying to us. Sure, some of the events they “report” are factual especially the local occurrences: fires, accidents, community events etc. but overall, the news is intentionally designed and presented from the perspective of the owner and managerial classes who need to keep us ignorant of their misconduct, objectives, agenda and how they are taking advantage of us; big time.

            For example, we are told inflation is on the rise which is true, but they are not telling us the actual causes of inflation or what inflation really is. We think inflation is rising costs for consumer goods and services which is true but that is not the cause. Inflation is a result of actions the ruling class do not want us to know about. Why? Because once we found out and we were in our right minds we would hold them accountable for their dastardly deeds and crimes against humanity.

            The truth is, inflation is caused by a rise not in prices but in the amount of money in circulation; which in a fiat system like America has, directly impacts the value of the money in circulation since it is not backed by anything tangible like gold. Western economists use what I call mumbo gumbo speak to obfuscate the reality the US economy which is based upon money, is manipulated by the central banksters. Their machinations have a direct influence on the supply of money in circulation at any given time.

 “Central banks can influence M2 supply by either issuing more money into the economy or by incentivising people to spend less. Quantitative easing is one way that a central bank can increase money supply and stimulate the economy. To reduce the supply of M2 in an economy, a central bank might issue bonds or other government-backed securities which lenders can buy; in doing so, they loan the government money. This means that a central bank’s money reserves increase at the expense of the money available in the economy. Central banks can also increase or decrease interest rates to influence M2. If interest rates are lower, borrowing will likely become more popular, which will increase the supply of money. Conversely, if interest rates rise, then the cost of borrowing will also go up which will deter people from taking out loans. This will decrease the M2 money supply in an economy.” M2 Money Supply Definition https://www.ig.com/uk/glossary-trading-terms/m2-money-supply-definition (Emphasis is mine.)

            This is why Trump was applying so much pressure on the former US central bank chair Jerome Powell; Trump wanted Powell to reduce interest rates meaning the cost of borrowing money. In effect Trump wanted to make it easier for people to get deeper in debt! `But what also was/is in play was the actual increase in the US money supply (M2) over the past few years. In fact, this increase has been humongous in the trillions of dollars.

“Since 2009, the TMS money supply is now up by more than 206 percent. (M2 has grown by more than 160 percent in that period.) Out of the current money supply of $20.4 trillion, nearly 30 percent of that has been created since January 2020. Since 2009, in the wake of the global financial crisis, more than $14 trillion of the current money supply has been created. In other words, more than two-thirds of the total existing money supply have been created since the Great Recession.” Money Supply Growth in 2026 Rises to Multi Year High as the Fed Pumps New QE https://mises.org/mises-wire/money-supply-growth-2026-rises-multi-year-high-fed-pumps-new-qe (Emphasis is mine.)

            The constant rise in M2 is making existing money worth less and less; which means you need more dollars to purchase goods and services. Trump’s foolish tariffs, his misuse of tariffs and his insane war on behalf of Israel against Iran, are causing massive repercussions which negatively impact US and global economies. The loss of global trade, numerous supply chain disruptions, US dollar debasement as the central banksters print more and more dollars are making life miserable for ordinary Americans while overvalued stocks are making the ownership and managerial classes richer every day!

            Suffice it to say inflation is not going to stop or go down. Due to the wars in Iran and Ukraine there will be food, oil, chemical and petroleum-based product shortages which will affect our pocketbooks and wallets. And this is merely the tip of the spear!

 Trump has already said he is not concerned about how this affects Americans! In an earlier post I predicted the Iran war will continue and it has. Now we are looking at a perfect storm of devastating consequences that will not only smack the American Empire but the whole world; which by the way is why this is being manipulated by the powers who shouldn’t be!

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