Hardy L. Brown, Sr.
Chairman/Co-Publisher

After retiring from a management position with the world’s largest HMO, Hardy Brown, joined the company he started with his wife twenty-five years before in a full-time capacity. As Chairman of Brown Publishing Company and co-publisher of The Black Voice News, he is responsible for providing leadership and strategic development for the growth of the company. As an active media leader, he is the founding president of the California Black Media Association, a member of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, California Newspaper Publishers Association, New California Media, and West Coast Black Publishers Association. His weekly editorials, published in The Black Voice News, and widely read because of his eloquence, wit, candor, and down-home southern style. He is also a frequent invited panelist at media conventions and forums. In 2000, he received the highest honor bestowed upon a member of the National Newspaper Publishers Association when he was selected Publisher of the Year by his fellow publishers. An active civic and community leader, he was an elected member of the San Bernardino Unified School District, Board of Trustees for 12 years, and is the immediate past president of the San Bernardino branch of the NAACP.

Cheryl Brown
CEO/Co-Publisher

As a child, Cheryl Minter Brown so admired her father Marvin Minter’s position as an accountant for the Pittsburgh Courier that it sparked her early interest in the Black Press. Now as CEO of Brown Publishing Company she helps to set the vision and mission of the company and as co-publisher she supervises the direction of The Black Voice News. In 1996 she was thrust into the national spotlight as the only Black-owned media representative to cover the O.J. Simpson Civil Trial. During that time she appeared on various television news shows including CNN’s Burden of Proof, MSNBC, the Brian Williams Show, and FOX News. She is an experienced photographer and has a collection of the famous and not-so-famous spanning over thirty years. As a modern day Underground Railroad conductor, she has developed annual study tours for educators retracing the steps of the Underground Railroad from Kentucky to Canada. She has received numerous grants and awards for the program, including: the National Park Service, SBC, and Washington Mutual. In 2002 she and her husband were selected as the only living publishers honored in Miller Brewing Company’s Black Press Gallery of Greats celebrating the 175th anniversary of the Black Press.