The Original Black Media King
Subject
Media; Entrepreneurship; Advertising
Description
In the late 1950s, long before he would be appreciated as one of the country’s most prominent Black media executives, Byron Lewis had a job working the weekend shift on the classified pages of The New York Times.
Creator
Ginia Bellafante
Source
Publisher
nytimes.com
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