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George Freeman Bragg, editor of the Virginia Lancet. Front page of the Richmond Planet from 1902. This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in Virginia. It includes both current and historical newspapers. The first African American newspaper in the state was The True Southerner, in 1865. [1]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 23 January 2025. Movement encouraging black people to embrace their African heritage and culture This article is about the cultural movement. For the LGBT movement, see Black gay pride. For the political slogan and US movement, see Black power. This article is part of a series about Black power History ...
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.
Global Black Pride began in 2020 during the pandemic when the group held a 12-hour worldwide virtual celebration and “joyful riot” for the Black LGBTQ community, according to TimeOut.
In 1894, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin founded The Woman's Era, the first nationally distributed newspaper published by and for African American women in the United States. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The Woman's Era began as the official publication of the National Association of Colored Women , and grew in import and impact with the founding of the National ...
Eliza Allen (born c. 1840 – after 1910) was an African American banker, activist, and clubwoman. She was a founder of the True Reformers Savings Bank, the first African-American-owned bank to be chartered in the United States. She was affiliated with several African American economic self-help organizations.
On Tuesday, Jennifer McClellan made history, becoming the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress in Virginia. McClellan, a Democrat, won a special election in the Fourth Congressional ...
Eventually claiming a circulation of 500,000, the newspaper was printed in several languages. It contained a page specifically for women readers, documented international events related to people of African ancestry, and was distributed throughout the African diaspora until publication ceased in 1933. [3]