Episode 671 | BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: The Relaunch of Frederick Douglass's North Star

The Benjamin Dixon Show

News, Politics

4.6 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2018

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

The biggest lesson I've learned over the past four years of doing independent media and using that platform to fight for what's important to us is that if you don't control your stories -- if you don't have decision making power to determine what is told, how it's told, or when it's told -- then someone else will, and it's a good chance that "someone else" doesn't have the concern and love for our community that we do.
BIG NEWS.

My good friend Shaun King and I are relaunching Frederick Douglass and Martin Delany's North Star with the full blessings and permission of the family of Frederick Douglas (which is pretty dope everytime I think about it). We're rebuilding it as a modern media company focusing on the stories that matter to us and the stories that are seldom heard.

We are in the pre-launch phase and want you to become a part of our launch team. Basically, just signup for updates and announcements.

Share this news on social media. Email it to a friend. What we're doing is historic and will have an impact that reverberates around the country and the globe.

Help us build the North Star.

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0:00.0	The Benjamin Dixon Show is only possible with listener support.
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0:12.0	I and join the Progressive Army.
0:26.7	I have been working with on something for almost a year now and I've alluded to it I've hinted at it and today I can finally announce that I have joined I partnered with Sean King and together the two of us we are relaunching with the full blessing of the family of
0:38.9	Frederick Douglas and the Douglas Foundation. We're relaunching the North Star
0:46.0	and we are launching it as a modern media venture
0:52.0	that amplifies the voices that are often forgotten and
0:58.0	tells the stories that are so frequently untold. Now that sounded like a good tagline but that's not our
1:06.5	tagline. We are literally in the building phase of it. We have been
1:12.4	building for the last year. We know exactly what this thing is going to look like when it is in full blossom, down to the detail. I mean, we have worked diligently to plan this and to build the infrastructure of how we
1:29.2	needed to look and how we wanted to function we're still at the beginning stages of it, but we're at the point now
1:36.0	where we can announce to the audience that our audience is that this is what we're doing. And the reason we're announcing to you now is because we're at the point now where we need your help.
1:46.0	Today is nothing more than just going to building the Northstar.com and signing up. It is a landing page, it's not the full-blown website, it's just a
1:56.6	landing page so that we can get a gauge of how many people are going to go on this
2:00.5	journey with us. And I can tell you, now these numbers might not be impressive to Sean,
2:06.5	you know, because Sean is like Sean King. But just this morning, it's 936.
2:13.1	In the last two hours, we have almost 6,000 people
2:15.4	who have signed up to be with us on this journey
2:18.3	as we rebuild the North Star.
2:21.5	So if I had an applause track handy, I would just play an applause track, but I'm just going to clap my hands because that's pretty good. Our goal. Our goal is 100,000 sign-ups by, and these are just email sign-ups, so go, and there's no, you know, we're not going to,
2:38.4	you know me, if you're on my mailing list, you know that I don't mail you until something's bothering me and I have to say
2:44.1	something so you're not going to get spammed for me and you're not going to get
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