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Subject: "Thank you for this."
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Castro
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Fri Jan-30-15 01:44 AM
103. "Thank you for this."
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Dear Ahmir, please pull together some friends and buy this (swipe):
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Fri Jan-23-15 10:31 PM
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This archive is priceless- its OUR history from our perspective.
Castro
Jan 23rd 2015
1
The problem is they aren't that accessible now
b.Touch
Jan 24th 2015
44
don't do it
lfresh
Jan 24th 2015
2
Have you seen the app? Its beyond terrible.
Castro
Jan 24th 2015
3
you are misunderstanding
lfresh
Jan 24th 2015
4
*looks at camera* I forget where I was.
Castro
Jan 24th 2015
5
*looks at my camera*
lfresh
Jan 24th 2015
6
Pardon me, Queen of media. I'll resume my analog posts.
Castro
Jan 24th 2015
7
Stop being stubborn. she actually knows that industry
madwriter
Jan 24th 2015
8
What the fuck does the industry have to do with it?
Castro
Jan 24th 2015
13
I wonder if Desiree knows/thought about/even cares about this...
deejboram
Jan 24th 2015
14
I wonder as well.
Castro
Jan 24th 2015
15
Now this makes you wonder why Obamas cut her loose.
deejboram
Jan 24th 2015
17
I don't think it is her decision, I think its Linda Johnson-Rice
Castro
Jan 24th 2015
18
William H. Cosby Jr. should buy them and donate them to Spelman
deejboram
Jan 24th 2015
22
hmmm....
akon
Jan 24th 2015
12
people wanting things free doesn't mean they should be free.
b.Touch
Jan 24th 2015
21
I am not saying they should be free. Not at all.
Castro
Jan 24th 2015
24
Yeah but I think you're kind of misunderstanding lfresh
GirlChild
Jan 24th 2015
28
I am so not misunderstanding her.
Castro
Jan 24th 2015
30
I don't think she's disagreeing with that
GirlChild
Jan 24th 2015
32
Yes ma'am
lfresh
Jan 24th 2015
33
My bad; I meant to reply to lfresh's post.
b.Touch
Jan 24th 2015
42
duh
lfresh
Jan 25th 2015
72
who is Ahmir?
kingjerm78
Jan 24th 2015
9
RE: who is Ahmir?
deejboram
Jan 24th 2015
10
Dude
Amritsar
Jan 24th 2015
27
Yall niggas rather throw shade than educate.
kingjerm78
Jan 24th 2015
40
?uestlove.
b.Touch
Jan 24th 2015
43
Thanks.
kingjerm78
Jan 24th 2015
51
you needed to be educated on that...
ThaAnthology
Jan 26th 2015
95
I guess.
kingjerm78
Jan 28th 2015
100
You been here ten years and don't know who Ahmir Thompson is?
deejboram
Jan 30th 2015
105
Sorry I didnt know buddy real name. Not like he says it in songs.
kingjerm78
Jan 30th 2015
106
do Ahmir even speak on Roots tracks?
deejboram
Jan 30th 2015
107
sucks that this even needs to be done...but i get it
Binlahab
Jan 24th 2015
11
The business pov is myopic. These are "our" images.
Castro
Jan 24th 2015
16
The business POV is unfortunately the real.
b.Touch
Jan 24th 2015
20
It's reality.
GirlChild
Jan 24th 2015
29
Hey bro....
TR808
Jan 24th 2015
19
2/3 of the names you mentioned sold dope or are rappers...
deejboram
Jan 24th 2015
23
RE: 2/3 of the names you mentioned sold dope or are rappers...
Castro
Jan 24th 2015
25
if you think the public agrees with you, why not ask them to join you?..
CyrenYoung
Jan 24th 2015
26
Has anyone ever crowdfunded $60 million dollars?
Castro
Jan 24th 2015
31
there's a 1st time for everything...
CyrenYoung
Jan 24th 2015
38
that's alotta bread to save some pics when aunt shirley is being evicted
deejboram
Jan 24th 2015
39
folks aren't even getting a Jet or Ebony subscription
sixteenstone
Jan 24th 2015
34
They don't even have all their magazines digitized
sixteenstone
Jan 24th 2015
35
Google Books (sort of quietly) has all of the JETs
b.Touch
Jan 24th 2015
46
All the time I get requests through my website for Jet mag research
sixteenstone
Jan 25th 2015
59
Not sure. If they go to Google Books search
b.Touch
Jan 25th 2015
62
it'd be great if those photos end up in the DuSable Museum.
SoWhat
Jan 24th 2015
36
yall will find a way to argue about any damn thing
rdhull
Jan 24th 2015
37
^^^^^
sixteenstone
Jan 24th 2015
41
why couldn't they find a digital partner and license these images
b.Touch
Jan 24th 2015
45
Bc as lfresh said, there needs to be a demand for it
GirlChild
Jan 24th 2015
53
I would ask if they've accessed the financial demand if monetized.
b.Touch
Jan 25th 2015
61
$40m valuation implies there must be some demand
Riot
Jan 25th 2015
68
its not <no> demand
lfresh
Jan 25th 2015
71
the magazine isn't even in big enough demand
GirlChild
Jan 25th 2015
74
do u think they will get an offer for $40M?
Riot
Jan 26th 2015
80
but a collection of quality stock images and
b.Touch
Jan 26th 2015
92
they should, but if there's no demand for it
GirlChild
Jan 26th 2015
94
is there even a demand for Ebony or Jet?
Mahogany
Jan 26th 2015
82
now this thinking I agree with
lfresh
Jan 26th 2015
83
okay fir further perspectve
lfresh
Jan 24th 2015
47
we really need to do more of this
akon
Jan 25th 2015
60
it would be nice
lfresh
Jan 25th 2015
67
look up Deborah Willis
lfresh
Jan 24th 2015
48
Her sister also runs the archive at temple univ
GirlChild
Jan 24th 2015
54
*salutes*
lfresh
Jan 24th 2015
56
The company that digitized the Time-Life collection
lfresh
Jan 24th 2015
49
again to Cyrens point
lfresh
Jan 24th 2015
50
this post has it all.
atruhead
Jan 24th 2015
52
Why you think any of them would do right by these images?
Buddy_Gilapagos
Jan 24th 2015
55
schomberg def can't afford it
GirlChild
Jan 24th 2015
57
J.P. Morgan owns a 40% stake in Johnson Publishing. It's a wrap.
Castro
Jan 25th 2015
58
Awesomely Luvvie has some great ideas about what they should do (swipe)....
KCPlayer21
Jan 25th 2015
63
Unless there's something I'm missing...
soulpsychodelicyde
Jan 25th 2015
64
Agreed
lfresh
Jan 25th 2015
73
please logoff.
Castro
Jan 25th 2015
75
Nah. I'm good.
soulpsychodelicyde
Jan 25th 2015
76
Nothing else to offer other than I am being 'fucking disrespectful'?
Castro
Jan 25th 2015
78
Why cant we get an app for the Jet BOTW
TR808
Jan 25th 2015
65
Jet used to have fully nude yearly calendars
sixteenstone
Jan 26th 2015
81
Somebody gonna fck around and stumble on a pic of their Auntie
GHNO
Jan 26th 2015
86
I don't think it matters whether the images stay in black hands
Buddy_Gilapagos
Jan 25th 2015
66
RE: I don't think it matters whether the images stay in black hands
Castro
Jan 25th 2015
77
A corporation only interested in money? Impossible!?!?!
Buddy_Gilapagos
Jan 26th 2015
84
no institution will buy it soley for preserving the legacy
GirlChild
Jan 26th 2015
93
There are institutions that could do it. Smithsonian, rich PWIs
Buddy_Gilapagos
Jan 26th 2015
97
read up top where i mentioned institions that could do it
GirlChild
Jan 26th 2015
98
meanwhile, nbc announces NBC BLK
Riot
Jan 25th 2015
69
related- king bros still want to sell bible & Nobel peace prize
Riot
Jan 25th 2015
70
Former JPC employee speaks out (swipe):
Castro
Jan 25th 2015
79
can you link the article please?? I'd like to see the photos....
GHNO
Jan 26th 2015
87
RE: can you link the article please?? I'd like to see the photos....
Castro
Jan 26th 2015
96
ROFLMAO!!! CASE AND MOTHERFUCKING POINT!!
imcvspl
Jan 26th 2015
99
So basically they took a box of pics to Pawn Stars and got told they
GHNO
Jan 26th 2015
85
$40M is absurd for something that isn't a private collection
imcvspl
Jan 26th 2015
88
Also....
imcvspl
Jan 26th 2015
89
Cosby would've bought this...
legsdiamond
Jan 26th 2015
90
How did Desirée Rogers end up the CEO of JPC?
Buddy_Gilapagos
Jan 26th 2015
91
Michael Jordan needs to buy this
neuro_OSX
Jan 28th 2015
101
look like this company handles the archives:
sixteenstone
Jan 30th 2015
102
Oprah will probably buy it up
neuro_OSX
Jan 30th 2015
104
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