Congressman Hank Johnson seeks answers to lack of federal advertising with minority media

Rep. Hank Johnson Leads Letter With Reps. Holmes Norton, Barbara Lee and Val Demings to Administration To Address: Major Failings of Federal Departments & Agencies to Do Business With Black-owned Media & Advertising Firms.

Pointing out that a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) study in 2016 found over a five-year period, the federal government spent more than $5 billion on advertising but Black-owned businesses received only $51 million, or 1.02 percent of those funds, Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04) sent a letter to the Biden Administration today seeking answers to this decades-old problem.

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