Cameron Strang, the founder of the media company and Christian lifestyle publication, has been accused in the past week of running a company that does not support black people nor women.
In an article last Wednesday, called ‘Black Christians Deserve Better Than Companies (And Churches) Like Relevant Media Group’, previous employee Andre Henry claimed that as he suggested articles the team should write, stories about black history, racism in the church and Dr Martin Luther King Jr received an unenthusiastic reaction from Mr Strang and Mr Henry’s role as managing editor soon became just a title with his decision-making responsibilities taken away.
Mr Henry explained how one time he tried to invite “a brilliant and charismatic Black woman” as a featured author and initially seemed to be given the go-ahead, only for her to be “bumped to the back of the issue”. He also described how he planned for a month’s worth of content for Black History Month, only to be warned “not to waste editorial energy” and that one story about black history a day would need to be “offset” with 7 or 8 others stories for those weren’t interested.
Another former employee, Rebecca Marie Jo, a Latina woman who had Mr Henry’s job before him, saw his article and revealed that it concurred with her own experience, recalling one editorial meeting “where the subject of a famous Christian Black…
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