Karen Carter Richards

CTL-E-0691 · Person · 2010-present

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Third-generation publisher/CEO of the Houston Forward Times (since 2010); elected NNPA national chair in 2019; 2018 NNPA Publisher of the Year.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MEDIA-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MEDIA-001:MED-063; source research type(s): Person.

Sources

365thingsinhouston.com; Post News Group (primary source)
Los Angeles Sentinel, 2019-06-28; Post News Group

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