BlackNews.com was launched in the year 2000 as an online newspaper that focuses on the latest news for and about African Americans. For more than 20 years, this has been our mission.
THe web site is produced by Diversity City Media/ Dante Lee International, the same company that produces other content-driven web sites for professional African Americans including BlackBusiness.com, BlackHistory.com, and BlackWoman.com.
Dante Lee, the company’s fouunder and CEO, is an HBCU graduate from Bowie State University. He launched the company when he was still a student on campus, and over the past two decades, has acquired, built, and nurtured an empire of successful web properties that have contributed to Black culture, awareness, and progress.