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    Former Ebony Editor Plans Relaunch of the Grio, Owned by Billionaire Byron Allen

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  • Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios Buys TheGrio

    Big changes are coming to the African-American news-media space: On Tuesday, Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios announced its acquisition of TheGrio, an online news website that focus primarily on black readers, The Wrap reports. “David Wilson and his founding partner Dan Woolsey have done an incredible job these past seven years building TheGrio, and we are one…