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An estimated 190 Black newspapers had been founded in Illinois by 1975, [2] and more have continued to be established in the decades since. While most such newspapers in Illinois have been local, some like the Chicago-based Chicago Defender and Muhammad Speaks have had a major national circulation and impact.
Spaulding, Norman W. History of Black oriented radio in Chicago, 1929-1963 (PhD disst. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1981. Spear, Allan H. Black Chicago: The making of a Negro ghetto, 1890–1920 (University of Chicago Press, 1967, ISBN 978-0-2267-6857-1). widely cited scholqrship
As the ANP grew into a global network. It supplied the vast majority of black newspapers with twice weekly packets. [1] [2] The office of the Associated Negro Press was located at 312 South Clark Street in Chicago. The ANP served about 150 U.S. Negro newspapers and 100 newspapers in Africa in French and English. [3]
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.
The Chicago Defender is a Chicago-based online African-American newspaper. It was founded in 1905 by Robert S. Abbott and was once considered the "most important" newspaper of its kind. [ 1 ] Abbott's newspaper reported and campaigned against Jim Crow -era violence and urged black people in the American South to settle in the north in what ...
The Black Reparations Co-Governance Task Force “will conduct a comprehensive study and examination of all policies that have harmed Black Chicagoans from the slavery era to present day,” and ...
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Seventy years after the racist murder of Chicago teen Emmett Till in Mississippi helped inspire the civil rights movement, a new exhibit on Emmett Till at the Chicago History ...
When it was established in 1940, The Crusader occupied a single page and was operated out of an apartment in the Ida B. Wells Homes on Chicago's South Side. [3] In this early period, it served as the official organ of the Negro Labor Relations League, [2] an organization established in 1937 to challenge the racial discrimination in employment in Chicago.