The ''St. Louis Sentinel'' is an
African-American
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ensl ...
-oriented weekly newspaper, founded in 1968 by
Howard B. Woods in
St. Louis, Missouri. After Woods's death in 1976, his wife
Jane Woods
Jane Haycock Woods (October 10, 1946 – July 18, 2022) was an American educator and Republican politician who served as a member of the Virginia Senate from 1992 to 2000, and Virginia House of Delegates from 1988 to 1992.
Biography
She was f ...
took over as publisher.
[JoAnn Adams Smith, ''Selected Neighbors and Neighborhoods of North Saint Louis and Selected Related Events'' (St. Louis: Friends of Vaughn Cultural Center, 1988), p. 8.]
See also
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African American newspapers
African-American newspapers (also known as the Black press or Black newspapers) are news publications in the United States serving African-American communities. Samuel Cornish and John Brown Russwurm started the first African-American perio ...
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St. Louis American''
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St. Louis Argus''
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Suburban Journals
Suburban Journals of Greater St. Louis was a group of publications in the St. Louis region owned by Lee Enterprises. The chain served the St. Louis and St. Charles counties in Missouri and in the Madison, Monroe and St. Clair Counties in Illino ...
References
African-American history in St. Louis
Saint Louis Sentinel
St. Louis Sentinel
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