The ''Metro Herald'' was an

African-American newspaper 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 ...

published in

Alexandria, Virginia Alexandria is an independent city (United States), independent city in the northern region of the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Virginia, United States. It lies on the western bank of the Potomac River approximately south of Downto ...

for more than 25 years, covering Maryland, Washington DC and Virginia. from the early 1990s to February 2018. It was owned by Davis Communications Group, Inc. and was a member of the Virginia Press Association. In 1999, founder

Paris Davis Paris D. Davis (born 13 May 1939) is a retired United States Army officer who received the Medal of Honor on 3 March 2023 for his actions on 18 June 1965 during the Vietnam War. He was twice previously nominated for the Medal of Honor, but both ...

became chief executive officer of the startup Baltimore Press. The format of the Metro Herald was a 24-page full-color paper, with a large Community News section as well as a classified ad section.

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