Six years ago today, I followed the lead of 20th Century Black news figures like Chicago legends Robert Sengstacke Abbott and John H. Johnson by launching my own news site, Hobbservation Point!
While I had written articles for mainstream news sites like The Hill, NY Times, Tallahassee Democrat, and others over the preceding decade, it was clear to me back in 2017 that:
1. Facebook was constantly suspending my account due to my telling inconvenient truths about global racism and white supremacy…
2. My brand new editor at The Hill, barely a year after the previous editor had nominated me for a Pulitzer Prize in Commentary while accepting every article that I pitched, started rejecting just about every article that I pitched for publishing…
So, I took the advice of my dear friend, former Florida A&M University Journalism Dean Ann Wead Kimbrough, secured the web design services of another friend, Peter McKay, gathered up my trenchant pen and, in the unique syntax of Star Wars Jedi Master Yoda, “my own counsel, kept have I, on that which is to be published!” In the time since, on the original website and the current one here at Substack, my blogs have had in excess of 700k unique views, and over 1,000 paying subscribers—and counting!
So thank you, kindly, to everyone who has subscribed, advertised, read, shared, and “Got the Point” over the past six years—and I promise you all that the best is yet to come!
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Chuck Hobbs is a freelance journalist who won the 2010 Florida Bar Media Award and has been twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.
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Chuck Hobbs is a freelance journalist who won the 2010 Florida Bar Media Award and has been twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.
