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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.
In 1885, Daniel Rudd formed the Ohio Tribune, said to be the first newspaper "printed by and for Black Americans", which he later expanded into the American Catholic Tribune, purported to the first Black-owned national newspaper. [7] The Cleveland Gazette was established in the 1880s and continued for decades.
New York Amsterdam News / Amsterdam News: 1909 [147] 1941 [147] Weekly [147] ISSN 0028-7121; LCCN sn86058065, sn7805580; OCLC 13404942, 1586884; Published by Powell-Savory Corp. [147] New York: New York Amsterdam News: 1943 [148] current: Weekly [148] LCCN sn83030330, sn85042678; OCLC 9480575, 12774267; Official site; New York: New York ...
This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in Washington, D.C. It includes both current and historical newspapers. 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 ...
It includes both current and historical newspapers. The history of such newspapers in Texas begins shortly after the Civil War, with the publication of The Free Man's Press in 1868. [1] Many African American newspapers are published in Texas today, including three in Houston alone. [2] These current newspapers are highlighted in green in the ...
It includes both current and historical newspapers. The first such newspaper in North Carolina was the Journal of Freedom of Raleigh, which published its first issue on September 30, 1865. [ 1 ] The African American press in North Carolina has historically been centered on a few large cities such as Raleigh, Durham, and Greensboro.
It includes both current and historical newspapers. The earliest known Black American journalists in Florida were John T. Shuften and John Wallace, who both worked for newspapers that were otherwise white. The first newspaper by and for Black Americans in Florida was The New Era, which Josiah T. Walls purchased in 1873. [1]
The Amsterdam News (also known as New York Amsterdam News) [3] is a weekly Black-owned newspaper serving New York City.It is one of the oldest newspapers geared toward African Americans in the United States and has published columns by such figures as W. E. B. Du Bois, Roy Wilkins, and Adam Clayton Powell Jr., and was the first to recognize and publish Malcolm X.