| Summary: | Publisher Bonita Gooch was born on August 15, 1955 in Wichita, Kansas to parents Dora, a schoolteacher, and U.L. "Rip" Gooch, an employee in the aviation business who migrated to Wichita from Tennessee. She graduated from North High School in 1973, and earned her B. A. degree in journalism and her M.A. degree in public administration from Kansas State University. In 1995, Gooch was persuaded by her father, who was a Kansas state senator, to purchase The Community Voice, Wichita's black weekly newspaper. The Community Voice received the U. S. Small Business Administration's Media Advocate Award in 1997, and two awards from the Kansas Press Association in 1998: one for overall excellence and the other to Gooch for in-depth writing. Gooch received the Kansas Department of Commerce and Housing's Minority Advocate Award in 1999. Gooch served as co-host of the weekly Community Voice Radio Show on Wichita's KDGS radio station.
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