Celebrating the legacy of the Black Press by WBEZ’s Afternoon Shift
Black Press Still Pleading the Cause for African Americans
Black Press Still Pleading the Cause for African Americans – Black Politics on the Web
Ten Things to do on Black Press Day (March 16th)
188 years ago, on March 16, 1827, John Brown Russwurm and Reverend Samuel Cornish published the first Black newspaper in the United States, Freedom’s Journal. To commemorate this milestone, the National Newspaper […]
“On Texas, Old Newspapers, Race Music, and Two Black Lives That Shaped the History of Civil Rights”
Though The Heavens Fall, Part 1
Indianapolis Recorder Celebrates 120 Years!
Indianapolis Recorder Newspaper celebrates 120 years
Ethel Payne: The First Lady of the Black Press
Ethel Payne: First Lady of the Black Press
Colored Conventions and the Early Black Press by Benjamin Fagan
Recently, I’ve been spending quite a bit of time looking through the minutes of the Colored Convention movement. Beginning in the early 1830s, national conventions were held on a regular […]
The Black Press and the Voting Rights Act of 1965
The BPRC is always interested in highlighting scholars’ use of Black newspapers to shed greater insight into the past. No matter what your position on the film Selma might be or […]
Society Queens: The Negro Press and the Harlem Renaissance by Dr. Jacqueline Jones
Society Queens: The Negro Press and the Harlem Renaissance [follow_me]
The Price Is NOT Right: Selling Black Press Archives
In many ways Cornell University library’s purchase of the New York Amsterdam News’ archive is “old news.” Now over two years, since the sale, the guide for the collection was recently completed […]
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