George Curry the face of Black Media Advocacy dies
George E. Curry, a veteran journalist who championed the black press and was reviving online his beloved Emerge magazine, died Saturday at 69, according to a message from his sister’s Facebook account.
Curry was twice editor-in-chief of the news service created by the National Newspaper Publishers Association, trade organization for the black press, but left in October after NNPA cut Curry’s salary in half in response to financial problems.
Curry pioneered a online version of Emerge magazine and was the editor-in-chief from 1993 until its final issue in June 2000. A GoFundMe drive had raised $16,088 of its $100,000 goal. The site posted eight articles on Friday.
Curry believed Emerge could be the political-magazine counterpart to Ebony, Jet, Essence and Black Enterprise.
