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The ''St. Louis Sentinel'' is an
African-American African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American ...
-oriented weekly newspaper, founded in 1968 by Howard B. Woods in
St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi River, Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the Greater St. Louis, ...
. 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 fo ...
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.


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St. Louis Sentinel The ''St. Louis Sentinel'' is an African-American-oriented weekly newspaper, founded in 1968 by Howard B. Woods in St. Louis, Missouri. After Woods's death in 1976, his wife Jane Woods took over as publisher.JoAnn Adams Smith, ''Selected Neighbor ...
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