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BlackVoices.com Introduces City Guide
to Urban Entertainment
Provides
local news, restaurant, event, travel and movie information
to
African-Americans in nine top markets
CHICAGO, May 30, 2002 -- BlackVoices.com,
the nation's leading destination for African-American adults
online, today introduced the BlackVoices.com City Guide, http://new.blackvoices.com/travel/destinations/cityguide/,
a new service providing local Black entertainment and travel
news, restaurant, event, local member profiles and movie information
in nine major markets: Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Chicago,
Philadelphia, Detroit, Atlanta, New Orleans and Miami-Ft.
Lauderdale. By late summer, BlackVoices.com will include 11
additional cities as well as information on attractions, conventions,
churches, sports and concerts.
"The Internet is a key resource that urban
professionals turn to for dining, travel and entertainment
options," said Barry Cooper, chief executive officer
and founder of BlackVoices.com. "With a trusted brand
like BlackVoices.com, our users know they'll get the latest
local news and hottest entertainment information in town."
In its initial phase, the BlackVoices City
Guide is providing local Black entertainment and travel news,
restaurant, event, local member profiles and movie information.
Event information is provided through a unique partnership
with SOCIALSTEP.COM,
an online resource for urban professionals that provides information
on social events, networking opportunities, travel, community
service opportunities and cultural events.
"SOCIALSTEP.COM is a great partner for
Blackvoices.com," said Cooper. "Since it was founded
in 1996, SOCIALSTEP.COM has built a loyal audience and a reputation
for providing information about top urban events for professionals."
"A partnership with BlackVoices.com is
a tremendous opportunity for us," said Malaika Moran,
president and chief executive officer of SOCIALSTEP, Inc.
"At SOCIALSTEP.COM, we work hard to provide the best
social, business, cultural, community service and travel events
to Social Steppers. Now, through Blackvoices.com, we're able
to share that information through their substantial network,
and provide more value to our clients. "
The city guide also offers local member profiles
that provide users an opportunity to learn about dynamic Blackvoices.com
members in each city. The "Local News" and "Travel
News" areas of the city guide include Black entertainment
and travel information is provided by Tribune newspapers,
such as the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and The Baltimore
Sun.
Later this summer, Blackvoices.com will add
additional city guides for Hartford, Conn.; Baltimore; Norfolk,
Va.; Houston; Dallas; Oakland-San Francisco; Cleveland, St.
Louis; Memphis, Tenn.; and Charlotte, N.C. New content will
also include information on local attractions, conventions,
churches, sporting events and concerts.
Other features on BlackVoices.com include in-depth
coverage of Black entertainment and news, multimedia features
like BlackVoices Centerpiece, and a new, more functional BlackVoices
Career Center. Also prominent is a new member photos section
with nearly 75,000 photos, plus hundreds of thousands of new
and updated member profiles.
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With more than 800,000 active members,
BlackVoices.com is the nation's leading news, lifestyle, career
and entertainment online destination tailored to meet the
needs of African-American adult consumers. The BlackVoices
brand also includes Black Voices Quarterly magazine, which
targets alumni, administrators and students from the nation's
historically black colleges and universities.
BlackVoices.com is a subsidiary of Tribune
Company (NYSE:TRB), one
of the country's premier media companies, operating businesses
in broadcasting, publishing and on the Internet. Tribune reaches
more than 80 percent of U.S. households and is the only media
company with television stations, newspapers and Web sites
in the nation's top three markets.
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