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The Baltimore Afro-American, commonly known as The Afro or Afro News, is a weekly African-American newspaper published in Baltimore, Maryland. It is the flagship newspaper of the AFRO-American chain and the longest-running African-American family-owned newspaper in the United States, established in 1892.
African-American News and Issues: Houston: Texas: 1996: Extant Africo-American Presbyterian: Wilmington: North Carolina: 1879–1938 [7] Defunct Afro-American Citizen, The: Charleston: South Carolina: 1899–1902 [8] Defunct Afro-American Courier: Yazoo City: Mississippi: 1926–19? [9] Defunct Daily Record: Wilmington: North Carolina: 1895 ...
The National Afro-American Press Association was founded in 1890 in Indianapolis with Timothy Thomas Fortune elected as chairman, in response to the large number of African American Newspapers entering circulation, and provided membership to newspapers and journalists who were publishing "in the interest of the Afro-American race."
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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.
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.
This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in the state of California, including both historical and contemporary publications.California's first such newspaper was the Mirror of the Times, which began publishing in the mid-1850s. [1]
The Milwaukee Courier is a weekly African-American newspaper based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.It was founded in 1964 [1] and is the state's oldest black-owned newspaper. [2] The newspaper is owned by Courier Communications, which also owns and operates the radio station WNOV, and The Madison Times which they acquired in 2014.