''The Colored American'' was a weekly newspaper published in Washington, D.C., from 1893 to 1904 by Edward Elder Cooper. It frequently featured the works of journalists

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and

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. The weekly publication promoted itself as "A National Negro Newspaper." It had stories on the achievements of

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across the United States, often with more original reporting than other newspapers, which frequently copied one another. Prominent black journalists contributed to the ''Colored American''. An annual subscription cost $2.00. The paper took editorial positions in favor of expanded rights and better conditions for blacks, and generally supported Republicans. It tended to ally with the positions of

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, who may have offered financial support.

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advocate and lecturer

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gave financial support and wrote a column for the paper. Partly because of debts, the publication ceased in November 1904.

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Defunct African-American newspapers Newspapers established in 1893 Publications disestablished in 1904 Defunct newspapers published in Washington, D.C. {{WashingtonDC-newspaper-stub

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