Jay-Z buys newspaper ads for black businesses

Jay-Z has purchased full-page newspaper ads across the United States to promote black businesses, All Hip Hop reports. Hip-hop mogul and his company Roc Nation bought ads in The New York Times, The Denver Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Austin American Statement, The Orlando Sentinel, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and others, promoting everything from eateries, beauty shops, clothing stores, and book shops to gyms, flower shops, waste collection, plumbing, auto shops, electricians, and print shops owned and run by Black men and women. The amount spent by Jay-Z was not disclosed.