Barry Cooper, founder of Black Voices
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The founder of the news and opinion site on black lives, culture and opinions in the U.S. otherwise known as Black Voices is African-American entrepreneur, Barry Cooper. Copper started the site in 1995 and sold it to AOL-Time Warner, who later sold it to Huffington Post.
The same can be said of other African American new sites, TheRoots.com, which was founded by African American professor, writer, and author, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. but is now owned by The Washington Post Co., through its online subsidiary, The Slate Group. The same goes for The Grio, the brainchild of African American men, David A. Wilson and Barion L. Grant, which is now owned by NBC News.
