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This is a list of African American newspapers and media outlets, which is sortable by publication name, city, state, founding date, and extant vs. defunct status. For more detail on a given newspaper, see the linked entries below. See also by state, below on this page, for entries on African American newspapers in each state.
Lists (one for each state): Category:Lists of African-American newspapers; Overview list: List of African-American newspapers and media outlets; Blacks and their contributions to the American West: a bibliography and union list of library holdings through 1970: Has a brief description of some of the newspapers (simple listings of many)
Pages in category "African-American newspapers" The following 102 pages are in this category, out of 102 total. ... The Chicago World; The Christian Recorder;
Pages in category "Lists of African-American newspapers" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
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 periodical, Freedom's Journal , in 1827.
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Although Washington was home to abolitionist papers prior to the American Civil War (1861-1865), the first known newspaper published by and for African Americans in the District of Columbia was the New Era, which Frederick Douglass launched in 1870. Notable newspapers in Washington today include the Washington Afro-American and Washington Informer.
This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in the state of New York. It includes both current and historical newspapers. New York was the birthplace of the African American press, with the publication of Freedom's Journal in 1827, and has remained a vibrant center of publishing ever since.