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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 ...
The newspaper was founded in 1892 by Civil War veteran Sgt. John H. Murphy, Sr. Murphy merged his church publication, The Sunday School Helper, with two other church publications, The Ledger and The Afro-American, and the publication rose to prominence under the control of his tenth-born child, Carl J. G. Murphy, who served as its editor for 45 ...
The North Star, an online newspaper launched in 2018 by activist Shaun King [121] [122] Black Report [123] Blacksourcemedia.com. themetrorecord.com. TJG News.
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931) was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). [1] Wells dedicated her career to combating prejudice and violence, and advocating for ...
Special interest newspapers in Washington, D.C. Title Year est., freq. Interest References Catholic Standard: 1951, weekly Catholics OCLC 11760218: County News: 1973 County governments, National Association of Counties OCLC 1643384, LCCN sn82017007: DC Black: African-American DC Spotlight Newspaper: The Georgetowner: 1954, bi-weekly
The weekly publication promoted itself as "A National Negro Newspaper." It had stories on the achievements of African Americans across the United States, often with more original reporting than other newspapers, which frequently copied one another. Prominent black journalists contributed to the Colored American. An annual subscription cost $2.00.
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. During the Antebellum South, other African American newspapers sprang ...
The Washington Bee. The Washington Bee was a Washington, D.C. -based American weekly newspaper founded in 1882 and primarily read by African Americans. [2] Throughout almost all of its forty-year history, it was edited by African American lawyer-journalist William Calvin Chase. The newspaper was aligned with the Republican Party.