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List Of African-American Newspapers And Media Outlets
This is a list of African-American newspapers and media outlets. For more detail on a given newspaper, see its entry in the List of African-American newspapers for its state, which is linked at See also: By state, below. Print Online * Atlanta Black Star * Parlé Magazine * Black News * The Grio * The Miami Times * ''The Root'' * ''The Skanner'' * '' NewsOne'' * The North Star, an online newspaper launched in 2018 by activist Shaun King * Black Report * Blacksourcemedia.com themetrorecord.comTJG News* Shine My Crown See also * African-American newspapers * List of newspapers in the United States * National Newspaper Publishers Association By state Alabama , Alaska , Arizona , Arkansas , California , Colorado , Connecticut , Delaware , Florida , Georgia , Hawaii , Illinois , Indiana , Iowa , Kansas , Kentucky , Louisiana , Maryland , Massachusetts , Michigan , Minnesota , Mississippi , Missouri , Montana , Nebraska , Nevada , New Jersey , New Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African-American Newspapers
African-American newspapers (also known as the Black press or Black newspapers) are newspaper, news publications in the United States serving African-American communities. Samuel Cornish and John Brown Russwurm started the first African-American periodical called ''Freedom's Journal'' in 1827. During the antebellum South, other African-American newspapers sprang forth, such as ''North Star (anti-slavery newspaper), The North Star'' founded in 1847 by Frederick Douglass. As African Americans moved to urban centers around the country, virtually every large city with a significant African-American population soon had newspapers directed towards African Americans. These newspapers gained audiences outside African-American circles. In the 21st century, papers (like newspapers of all sorts) Decline of newspapers, have shut down, merged, or shrunk in response to the dominance of the Internet in terms of providing free news and information, and providing cheap advertising. History O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston Guardian
The ''Boston Guardian'' was an African-American newspaper, co-founded by William Monroe Trotter and George W. Forbes in 1901 in Boston, Massachusetts, and published until the 1950s. In April 2016, an unrelated publisher launched its own ''Boston Guardian'', a neighborhood weekly newspaper serving the Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Downtown, Fenway, South End, and North End/Waterfront districts of Boston, despite criticism that it had appropriated a historic journalistic name for purely commercial reasons. History The ''Guardian'' was founded in November 1901 and published in the same building that had once housed William Lloyd Garrison's ''Liberator''. In March 1901, Trotter helped organize the Boston Literary and Historical Association, a forum for militant race opinion. The paper enjoyed broad appeal with readers outside of Massachusetts, featuring news of interest to people of color from across the nation, as well as social notes, church news, sports, and fiction. Within its edito ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cleveland Gazette
''The Cleveland Gazette'' was a weekly newspaper published in Cleveland, Ohio, from August 25, 1883, to May 20, 1945. It was an African-American newspaper owned and edited by Harry Clay Smith, initially with a group of partners. Circulation was estimated between 5,000 and 18,000. The ''Gazette'' became the longest-publishing African-American weekly in the U.S., earning its nickname "The Old Reliable" by never missing a Saturday publication date in 58 years. Background and establishment Cleveland Many African Americans moved from the South to northern cities, such as Cleveland, after the end of Reconstruction. Because Cleveland had been primarily populated by New Englanders who opposed the institution of slavery, the addition of African Americans allowed the city's public areas to become more integrated with minimal racial conflicts. During this time, the demand and support of African-American newspapers in the North grew. Various "religious and charitable organizations pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cincinnati Herald
''The Cincinnati Herald'' is an African-American newspaper published each Wednesday by Sesh Communications in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. The ''Herald''s offices are located in the Avondale neighborhood. Sister publications include ''The Dayton Defender'', ''The Northern Kentucky Herald'', and ''SeshPrime Magazine'', a monthly magazine for African-Americans. History The ''Herald'' was founded in 1955 by Gerald Porter. When Porter died in 1963, his wife Marjorie Parham assumed control of the paper. In 1996, Parham sold the paper to Sesh Communications, a partnership between Eric Kearney, Jan-Michele Lemon, Wilton Blake, and Ronda Gooden. See also *List of African-American newspapers in Ohio This is a list of African-American newspapers that have been published in the state of Ohio. The history of African-American publishing in Ohio is longer than in many Midwestern states, beginning well before the Civil War. In 1843, the '' Pall ... References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Christian Recorder
''The Christian Recorder'' is the official newspaper of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and is the oldest continuously published African-American newspaper in the United States. It has been called "arguably the most powerful black periodical of the nineteenth century," a time when there were few sources for news and information about Black communities. ''The Recorder'' covered secular as well as religious news, and reported news of the black regiments serving in the Civil War. It advocated support for Union troops. It was also known for having an Information Wanted section, where Black families who had been forcibly separated in the slave trade could seek news about their missing loved ones. The paper's coverage included birth, marriage, and death notices. It also featured music, poetry, and reader stories, and was "a major source of literature by and for African-Americans" during this time period. The paper published Julia C. Collins' novel as 31 serialized chapters in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Defender
''The Chicago Defender'' is a Chicago-based online African-American newspaper. It was founded in 1905 by Robert S. Abbott and was once considered the "most important" newspaper of its kind. Abbott's newspaper reported and campaigned against Jim Crow-era violence and urged black people in the American South to settle in the north in what became the Great Migration. Abbott worked out an informal distribution system with Pullman porters who surreptitiously (and sometimes against southern state laws and mores) took his paper by rail far beyond Chicago, especially to African American readers in the southern United States. Under his nephew and chosen successor, John H. Sengstacke, the paper dealt with racial segregation in the United States, especially in the U.S. military, during World War II. Copies of the paper were passed along in communities, and it is estimated that at its most successful, each copy was read by four to five people. In 1919–1922, the ''Defender'' attracted t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Chattanooga Observer
The ''Chattanooga Observer'' (1927 - 1966) was a weekly newspaper serving the African American community in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It was affiliated with the Republican Party. The ''Observer'' was originally published by the Tennessee Negro News Publishing Co., but by 1940 it had been acquired by the Scott Newspaper Syndicate. By 1943 it had been acquired by the Chattanooga Observer Publishing Company, which was owned by Walter Caldwell Robinson. Robinson, who also edited the newspaper and wrote editorials for it, was the founder of the Colored Voters League of Greater Chattanooga and the chair of the Republican organization in the city's fourth ward until 1959. Ishmael Reed recalled him as "the most powerful Black man in Chattanooga". The paper, which may have played a role in establishing Robinson's political power, had ceased publication by his death. Tennessee State University has a collection of Robinson's papers including speeches, correspondence and issues of the newspap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Charlotte Post
''The Charlotte Post'', founded in 1878, is an African American, English language weekly newspaper community based in Charlotte, North Carolina. ''The Charlotte Post'' has been distributed in countries surrounding Mecklenburg and upstate South Carolina. The ''Post'' is read by thousands of area residents and has earned numerous national and local journalism and service awards. The newspaper is owned by ''The Charlotte Post Publishing Company'' in Charlotte, North Carolina. History The paper is regarded as a leading provider of news and entertainment coverage from a Black perspective. It is a weekly broadsheet that at one time sold for $1 a copy, as well as distributed at no charge at dark green vendor boxes located in Uptown Charlotte and throughout the city primarily in African-American neighborhoods. The Charlotte Post is published by The Charlotte Post Publishing Company. A sister newspaper, '' The Triangle Tribune'', serves the Research Triangle area. The Charlotte Post Fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Charleston Chronicle
''The Charleston Chronicle'' is a weekly newspaper serving the African-American and Black communities in Charleston, South Carolina. The paper is a member of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), a trade group of more than 200 Black-owned media companies in the United States. Its estimated circulation is 6,000 copies. Damion Smalls is the paper's editor and Tolbert Smalls is the publisher. The paper was founded in 1971 by James J. French. History James J. French moved from Kansas City to Charleston, South Carolina in the 1960s, while in the Navy. After serving in Vietnam, receiving the Bronze Star Medal and a Presidential Citation, he retired from the Navy in 1969, and began publishing ''The Charleston Chronicle'' on August 19, 1971. In 2012, the South Carolina Senate honored James J. French's contributions to South Carolina, including the founding of ''The Charleston Chronicle'', by renaming the juncture of U.S. Route 17 and Magnolia Road in Charleston, the "Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Carolina Times
''The Carolina Times'' was an American, English-language weekly newspaper published in Durham, North Carolina, United States, founded in 1919 or 1921. It ceased publication in 2020. History In 1921 Charles Arrant founded ''The Standard Advertiser'' in Durham, North Carolina. The publication served as the only newspaper for the city's black residents. Arrant was killed in 1922. In 1927, ''The Standard Advertiser''s sports editor Louis Austin acquired a loan from Mechanics and Farmers Bank The Mechanics and Farmers Bank (abbreviated as M&F Bank) is an American bank owned by M&F Bancorp, Inc based in Durham, North Carolina. It served as one of the most influential African-American businesses in North Carolina in the 20th century. ... and purchased the paper. Under Austin's ownership and editorship, the publication's name was changed to ''The Carolina Times''. The paper devoted a significant amount of its news coverage to accounts of racial discrimination. Austin frequently used ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Carolina Panorama
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Call And Post
The ''Call and Post'' (or ''Call & Post'') is an African-American weekly newspaper, based in Cleveland, Ohio. History The ''Call and Post'' was established around 1928 by a group of people including local African-American inventor Garrett A. Morgan, as a merger between the ''Cleveland Call'' and the ''Cleveland Post'', two newspapers that had been serving the African-American community since 1916 and 1920 respectively. William Otis "W.O." Walker, a black Republican who had been co-founder of the ''Washington Tribune'', became editor in 1932. The ''Call and Post'' provided extensive coverage of the social and religious life in the African-American community, and was known to feature sensational coverage of violence on its front page. The publication also extensively covered Larry Doby, the first black player to successfully integrate into the American League's Cleveland Indians baseball franchise. Reporter Cleveland Jackson communicated extensively with Indians owner and team p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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