American Legacy Announces Plan to Launch Digital Subscription Portal American LegacyXL!

MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. - April 28, 2014 - PRLog -- (Mount Vernon, NY) – April 28, 2014…American Legacy announced today its plans to launch American LegacyXL, a streaming video and non-video digital subscription portal in February 2015. Subscribers to the portal will have access to four major content areas:  African-American historical movies, original television programs based on American Legacy magazine’s content, access to American Legacy’s digital archives for back issues and research purposes and American Legacy’s monthly E-Newsletter.

In making the announcement Rodney J. Reynolds American Legacy’s founder, publisher and CEO stated “We are very excited about this new stage and opportunity in the life of the American Legacy brand.  In 1995 when we first launched American Legacy the magazine was considered cutting edge in the way that we covered and preserved African-American history and culture. Now nearly 20 years later we are again making history with the launch of American LegacyXL. This digital portal will allow subscribers to experience African American history and culture on a daily basis!”

American Legacy Magazine was founded in 1995 as a joint venture between Reynolds’ RJR Communications, Inc and Forbes Magazine. RJR Communications assumed full ownership of the magazine and all related assets of the joint venture in January 2009. Total readership of American Legacy  was over 2 million when the print edition went on hiatus in 2011. The company launched an E-Newsletter in April 2013 and its mobile truck exhibit has continued to visit school districts, African-American festivals and colleges and universities across the country since 2008. In addition, the company sells black history curriculum products to the K-12 school market.

The mission of the American Legacy brand is to broaden and enhance the awareness of African-American history and to become a leading diversified media company through the use of educational products, mixed media, collaboration projects, the internet, broadcast media and special events. To register for FREE updates and notifications on the launch of American LegacyXL visit www.americanlegacyXL.com.  American LegacyXL…Where African-American History Lives Everyday!