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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.
Illinois' first African American newspaper was the Cairo Weekly Gazette, established in 1862. [1] The first in Chicago was The Chicago Conservator , established in 1878. An estimated 190 Black newspapers had been founded in Illinois by 1975, [ 2 ] and more have continued to be established in the decades since.
Third World Press has published works by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gwendolyn Brooks, as well as by Sonia Sanchez, Sterling Plumpp and Pearl Cleage. [10] The list of authors published by TWP also includes Amiri Baraka, [11] Margaret Walker, Sam Greenlee, Naomi Long Madgett, Keorapetse Kgositsile, Mari Evans, [12] Kalamu ya Salaam, Gloria Naylor, Gil Scott-Heron, Chancellor Williams, [13 ...
List of Spanish-language newspapers published in the United States; Specialty. List of African-American newspapers in the United States; List of alternative weekly newspapers in the United States; List of business newspapers in the United States; List of family-owned newspapers in the United States; List of Jewish newspapers in the United States
The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), formerly the National Negro Publishers Association, is an association of African American newspaper publishers from across the United States. It was established in 1940 and took its current name in 1956. Its headquarters was in Louisville, Kentucky. [1]
The company, incorporated in 2002 with its first book published in 2003, was founded by current president Doug Seibold. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] At its inception, Agate was synonymous with its Bolden imprint, which published exclusively African-American literature, an interest of Seibold's and a product of his time working as executive editor for the ...
The well-established publishing operations of civil rights organizations, such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the National Urban League, continued to be productive in the years 1960-80; joining them in their efforts were newly formed African-American institutional book publishers, including the DuSable ...
The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund is a program formed in 2017 [1] to aid stewards of Black cultural sites throughout the nation in preserving both physical landmarks, their material collections and associated narratives.