A last minute handful of cash has kept the Bay State Banner – the major black paper in Boston – alive and here’s some local thought about why that is important.

http://boston.indymedia.org/feature/display/208314/index.php

And here’s an article from Media Life magazine, Sept 1., which notes that some magazines are facing deep circulation drops but:

Well, I thought the most striking thing I saw is how well a couple ethnic magazines did. Ebony and Essence did pretty well in single copy sales.