Byron Allen

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1,049 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 20 Jun

Byron Allen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Don Lemon Show · Juneteenth Special | Byron Allen: Don't Let White Media Define Black America! · 19 Jun 2026 podcast

That is key.

That is important.

And I think it's also important that we have a seat at the table and talk about the narrative and have control over that narrative.

How are we positioning this conversation?

How are we seeing this conversation?

There was a, and one of the, I invested a little over a billion dollars buying ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox affiliates.

And one of my markets, there was a situation where a young black kid was killed because he was playing music according to the person who killed him by a white man who was in a hotel

and he was in the hotel room and he heard this music in the parking lot and it upset him.

And he went downstairs and confronted this young black kid who was playing the music loudly in the parking lot.

And the white man pulled out a gun and shot and killed this kid.

And I said, listen,

I don't normally call my newsrooms, rarely, but I said, it's important to me that you humanize this kid because I'm seeing stories that

like he was some kid that maybe he wasn't the perfect citizen.

Never been arrested.

He didn't have issues.

But don't demonize this kid.

And you don't deserve to get shot in a parking lot because you're blasting blasting music.

I said,

I don't ever call the newsroom, but I said, I need you to go and humanize that kid.

I need you to go and interview his mother, his father, his sister, his brothers, his friends.

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