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Inside Mel Miller's office, the bulldozers and cement are shut out, but you don't leave change behind. Miller, publisher and half of the official writing staff of Roxbury's seven-month-old Negro newspaper, the Bay State Banner sits down, puts his feet up on the desk, and begins to talk excitedly about the changes going on in Roxbury. He touches on urban renewal and construction of new buildings, mentions new schools and community centers, and then federal, state, and local relief programs with unintelligible letter codes--Operation Head Start, ABCD, or the BRA. He also talks about...
...seven months, until last April 23, the Bay State Banner appeared on the newsstands once a week. Its staff was Negro, as was its predicted readership. Covering local church, community center, school, and urban renewal news almost exclusively, the Banner was read by more than a quarter of Roxbury's Negroes, Miller estimates, and was probably the only paper his readers read with any regularity or thoroughness. The Banner, following, probing, and trying to make intelligible Roxbury's renewal program, also won the support of the community leaders, largely through what Miller calls "our unusual editorial policy." The paper...
There are other Negro newspapers, Miller explained, but they don't do what the Banner does. They focus almost entirely on entertainment, sports, or else are "100 per cent press release papers." "We're a no nonsense paper," he adds, "for people who really want to know what's going on in the Roxbury community. We want to be a paper for people who live here, not people who drink here," he adds. And the 20,000 readers who acquired the Banner habit in the last seven months seem to indicate Miller's paper is a welcome addition...
...Banner, Roxbury's community newspaper, built up a circulation of 6000 in its seven months of weekly publication before limited advertising forced it to suspend publication April 23. The publishers hope to revive it later this month if the fund drive's successful...
...will be selling tickets to a benefit concert Saturday night, and selling yearly Banner subscriptions...