Ownership Change

CTL-E-0761 · Practice · other · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Ownership or control changes - bankruptcy sales, corporate acquisitions, strategy pivots - that endanger or erase Black cultural holdings. Corporate-held Black memory is revocable memory.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from PRESERVE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-PRESERVE-001:CTL-PRESERVE-E-004; source research type(s): risk. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

Black Enterprise, 'Years Of Black Journalism Disappeared From BET\u2019s Website' (Sept 9, 2026) — https://www.blackenterprise.com/years-of-black-journalism-disappeared-bet-digital/
infoDOCKET (Sept 8, 2026), citing A.V. Club — https://www.infodocket.com/2026/09/08/internet-archive-releases-archive-of-bet-journalism-removed-from-the-web/
See institutional_closure entry: Johnson Publishing Company bankruptcy and closure (Chicago)

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