It is owned by GV Media Group Limited, and is aimed at the British African-Caribbean community. Any size donation is welcome and we thank you for your continued support.The Voice Newspaper is committed to celebrating black excellence, campaigning for positive change and informing the black community on important issues. "I decided deliberately to have a newspaper that targeted people who were born here and had spent most of their lives here," said McCalla in a rare TV interview in 1992. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Under the Loan Guarantee Scheme the Government secured 80% of the loan, thereby reducing the risk taken by the bank. As it turned out the loan was fully paid off within five years.The first issue of The Voice was printed to coincide with the Notting Hill Carnival in August 1982. "Family, friends and the many people who knew 58-year-old Mr McCalla were grieving after learning that he had passed away. Its cover price was 54 pence, and was only sold in London.Within two decades it had become “Britain’s most successful black newspaper.The Voice alumni include: Commission for Racial Equality chair Trevor Phillips, former BBC and currently Al Jazeera newsman Rageh Omaar, ITV’s Martin Bashir, authors Diran Adebayo, Leone Ross, and Gemma Weekes; film maker and novelist Kolton Lee, novelist Vanessa Walters, broadcasters MTV Jasmine Dotiwala, Henry Bonsu, Dotun Adebayo, Onyekachi Wambu and publisher Steve Pope, among others.The Voice has also received many awards which include:Young Voices – two “Best Magazine” awards from the Urban Music Awards 2010 and 2009.The Voice is proud to champion diversity across the UK and celebrate black excellence in all industries.The Voice Newspaper is committed to celebrating black excellence, campaigning for positive change and informing the black community on important issues. Talk of the town. A shy but driven man who shunned personal publicity, Mr McCalla probably did more for the presence of black Britons in the modern media than any single individual. Botswana is the ancestral home of all humans.
Related Topics: Headlines. Cesairna Augusto Earl, the daughter, made the case to name the school or media center after her mother, Mary Augusto, yet again on Wednesday night. Advertisement. "Mr McCalla, who loved horseracing, established the Voice newspaper in 1982 and will be fondly remembered by many as a pioneer in the publishing industry, and someone who gave Britain's black community its leading black newspaper. About Us. In 1995 Metropolitan police commissioner Sir Paul Condon accused the paper of sparking a race riot in Brixton over its reporting of the death in custody of a young black man called Wayne Douglas.The previous summer the Voice splashed the headline "Condon, you're an ass!" "He was a loving father and husband, and will be sadly missed." You may like. The paper issued a statement today saying: "Val McCalla, owner, publisher and founder of the Voice … Share; Tweet; 1st November 2019. The city’s school district may soon name the School 16 media center after the founder of the “Italian Voice” newspaper following repeated lobbying by the founder’s daughter. Your financial contributions are essential to protect the future of the publication as we strive to help raise the profile of the black communities across the UK. Publications were named accordingly, with titles such as the West Indian Gazette, West Indian World, The Caribbean Times and West Africa. Val McCalla, the Jamaican-born founder of The Voice newspaper who died in August, is being honoured at a service at London's St Martins-in-the-Field church, Trafalgar Square. across its front page after the police chief gave a speech suggesting 80% of muggers in some parts of London were black.But the paper has changed with the times. The Voice has come under press scrutiny recently over alleged misappropriation of funds and a suspected fall in circulation, but despite criticism from some quarters it remains an institution within Britain's black community. The Voice, dubbed "the black Sun", has never shied away from controversy, building up a reputation for campaigning against racism and injustice. McCalla also had a business partner, Alex Pascall, with BBC connections; soon the Corporation was advertising too.”The Voice got off the ground with a £62,000 loan from Barclays Bank. The other was the existence of the Loan Guarantee Scheme, set up by the Conservative government as part of Margaret Thatcher’s policy of aiding and encouraging the growth of small businesses in Britain.