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The Double V campaign, initiated by the Pittsburgh Courier from February 1942, was a drive to promote the fight for democracy in overseas campaigns and at the home front in the United States for African Americans during World War II. The idea of the Double V originated from a letter written by James G. Thompson on January 31, 1942.
The Pittsburgh Courier was an African American weekly newspaper published in Pittsburgh from 1907 [1] until October 22, 1966. [2] By the 1930s, the Courier was one of the leading black newspapers in the United States. [3] [4] It was acquired in 1965 by John H. Sengstacke, a major black publisher and owner of the Chicago Defender.
Pennsylvania's first African American newspaper was The Mystery, published in Pittsburgh by Martin Robison Delany from 1843 to 1847. [ 2 ] Today, Pennsylvania is home to numerous active African American newspapers, including the oldest such newspaper nationwide, the Philadelphia Tribune .
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The Bucks County Courier Times previously won the Dew award in 2017 for its award-winning “Unwell Water” series on PFAS, or forever chemicals, in local drinking water.
The Hibbs family expressed their gratitude to all those involved in reopening the investigation two times after 1991 leading to Atkins arrest, said David Hibbs, who was 12 when his mom was murdered.
The Petoskey News-Review and its sister publications, the Charlevoix Courier and Gaylord Herald Times, earned 13 awards in the APME 2022 awards.
His address supported the Double V campaign, launched by the Pittsburgh Courier on February 7, 1942, to rally Blacks to fight for democracy overseas and on the home front: "against our enslavers at home and those abroad who would enslave us."