BET Removes Years of Articles on Black Culture and Journalism

Phil Lewis reported that BET Digital permanently removed its digital news articles to prioritize video content. Years of reporting disappeared from the site. Some writers recovered their pieces while others found their work gone entirely. Njera Perkins called the change extremely sad and noted it wiped out a chapter of her freelance run. Other replies described the move as erasing Black journalism and history, with mentions that the Wayback Machine holds only some of the material.