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The history of the Call & Post
The Call & Post story is a fulfillment of the American Dream. It is a story of a group of dedicated people, working under difficult, trying circumstances, filled a need, and satisfied enough people to establish a business that has become an institution.
The Call & Post story is a work still in progress. It is a story of tribulations and dreams - a story of strain and struggle a story of goals achieved and dreams still waiting to be fulfilled.
It is a story of people, a reflection of the men and women who strive to serve their readers by changing the social and economic environment that impacts their community. These newspaper people are true Americans in their loyalties, ambitions, education and standards of living. In unison, they strive for a fair share of the American Dream.
The Call & Post story is synonymous with the progress of the people it represents, over one and a half million strong across the state of Ohio, northern Kentucky and southeastern Indiana, served by regional editions in Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati.
The Call & Post story is a story of a people on a mission, fighting for justice and equality. With unwavering courage and undiminished determination the Call & Post continues to fight ignorance, bigotry and misunderstanding from outside - and inside - the Black community.
The story is one of a continuing fight to make this society just and equitable for all.
This philosophy put the Call & Post at the forefront of the Black press, setting a standard by which others were judged. But the success that grew from a string of civil rights victories in the 1960s left the Black press vulnerable to changing demographics and fortunes began to wane. A laundry list of non-Black publishers began publishing to this lucrative market as Blacks became the majority in many American cities.
Major metropolitan daily newspapers, several Black front-publications and dozens of electronic media outlets began competing for the attention of readers and the dollars of advertisers. Black publishers were thrust into the desktop publishing era - with old equipment and seasoned staffs - while a horde of competitors, interested in the money but not the...