More broadly, throughout the first-half of the 20th century, Black newspapers worked to counteract widespread assumptions that syphilis was an African American disease caused by a lack of personal ...

G iven all that African Americans have suffered in our country’s history, it isn’t too surprising The Cincinnati Herald has endured its own fair share of struggles. Started by Gerald Porter, the ...

Soon other African-American elected leaders followed, including Berl Handcox, Austin’s first Black council member and Travis County’s first African-American judge, Sam Biscoe.

Today, the National Newspaper Publishers Association, a black press trade group, reports about 200 African-American newspapers publish in the U.S. Almost all are weeklies. Advertisement.

“The African American Newspapers were of the few published tools of the first half of the twentieth century to capture any record of our lives, our goals, our suffering and our strength.” ...

Excluding two hiatuses, it is one of the South’s longest-running African American newspapers. The images that have been digitized from this legacy paper are from 1886 to 1888. The newspaper’s ...

Yesterday, the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism released its 2013 annual report on the state of the news media. While most all… ...

In her 2007 book, Freedom’s Journal: The First African-American Newspaper, Jacqueline Bacon puts the number of its subscribers at “at least 800.” ...

The national controversy over the arrest of the legendary Henry Louise Gates has temporarily been quieted by a White House meeting and a few cold Bud Lights. But only blocks away from the scene of ...

With the increased coverage of African-Americans in the daily papers, the popularity of black-owned newspapers began a steady decline. By the 2000s, the newspaper industry as a whole started to ...

The white Southern press degraded African Americans in a variety of everyday ways. One of the humiliations that continued into the 1950s involved denying Black adults the courtesy titles Mr. and ...