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The Washington Informer is a weekly newspaper published in Washington, D.C. The Informer is female-owned and is targeted at the African-American population of the D.C. metropolitan area. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The publisher is Denise Rolark Barnes, whose father, Calvin W. Rolark (1927–1994), [ 3 ] [ 4 ] founded the paper in 1964.
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.
Rolark moved from Texas to Washington in either 1952 [5] or 1959. [6] He founded The Washington Informer, a newspaper, in 1962.In 1969, he founded the United Black Fund, a foundation structured similarly to United Way that supported charitable activities for Black and Latino residents in the Washington, D.C., area.
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African-American newspapers Name City State Founded Closed 92d Buffalo: Fort Huachuca: Arizona: 1943–1945 [1]: Defunct 93d Blue Helmet: Fort Huachuca: Arizona: 1942–1943 [2]: Defunct
The Los Angeles Wave is an African-American newspaper created by C.Z. Wilson, [1] first published in 1912 in Los Angeles, California. [2] It has 92,000 subscribers, which is more subscribers that any other black newspaper. [3] The newspaper group claims to have circulation of 1.2 million serving diverse neighborhoods in the greater Los Angeles ...