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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-Americ ...

that have been published in the state of

Rhode Island Rhode Island (, like ''road'') is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is the List of U.S. states by area, smallest U.S. state by area and the List of states and territories of the United States ...

. It includes both current and historical newspapers. Relatively few African-American newspapers have been published in Rhode Island. The first known such newspaper, and the only one published in the 19th century, was

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's ''Eastern Review'' (1879–1880). Rhode Island was thus the only state to show a net drop in African-American newspapers between 1880 and 1890, namely from 1 to 0, as

Irvine Garland Penn Irvine Garland Penn (October 7, 1867 – July 22, 1930) was an educator, journalist, and lay leader in the Methodist Episcopal church in the United States. He was the author of ''The Afro-American Press and Its Editors'', published in 1891, and a ...

recorded in ''

The Afro-American Press and Its Editors ''Afro-American Press and Its Editors'' is a book published in 1891 written by Irvine Garland Penn. Penn covers African-American newspapers and magazines published between 1827 and 1891. The book covers many aspects of journalism, and devotes a c ...

''. In addition to its African-American newspapers, Rhode Island is the site of another important advancement in the history of the Black press: when John Carter Minkins became editor-in-chief of the Providence ''News-Democrat'' in 1906, he was the first African American to head a daily newspaper that catered to the white community. Upon leaving the ''News-Democrat'' in 1911, Minkins purchased the weekly '' Rhode Island Examiner'', which under his leadership gave front-page coverage to issues affecting African Americans.

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