African American Readership Profile
- Average Income: $64,615
- Average Net Worth: $391,290
- Average Age: 42 years old
- 85% Home-Ownership
- 83% having at least some college
- Readers of African American newspapers represent 73% of the total $645 billion African American Buying Power
- 87.6% of regular black newspapers readers don't regularly read daily newspapers
- Studies have found these readers don't trust the mainstream dailies, who have traditionally been viewed as less than fair in their reporting on the African American community
- Only 1 out of every 4 African Americans receive a daily newspaper, while 60% of the Afrian Amerian community read their local Black owned weekly newspaper