[2] Chicago Defender and Michigan Chronicle owner John H. Sengstacke died in 1997.
Amid the uncertainty over the Chronicle's future ownership, longtime publisher Sam Logan left the paper in 2000 and in May of that year formed a competing weekly, The Michigan FrontPage, which he envisioned as "a weekend read", published on Fridays.
[3] The Sengstacke papers were finally sold in 2003, to Real Times Inc., a group of African-American business leaders from Chicago and Detroit, including Logan.
Hiram Jackson, president of Real Times Inc., was appointed interim publisher in his place.
[5] Real Times Inc. describes the FrontPage as "a contemporary, magazine-style 'weekend' newspaper designed to cultivate and be the public face of a progressive urban image and lifestyle.