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Aiello, Thomas. The Grapevine of the Black South: The Scott Newspaper Syndicate in the Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2018.

Akil, Bakari. “African American News Websites: Publishers’ Views Perspectives and Experiences in Relation to the Social Construction of News, Online News and the Black Press.” PhD Dissertation, Florida State University, 2007.

Alexander, Ann F. “Black Protest in the New South:  John Mitchell, Jr. (1863-1929) & the Richmond Planet.” PhD Dissertation, Duke University, 1973.

Alexander, Shawn Leigh. “Marcus Garvey and the Chicago Defender, 1917-1923.” PhD Dissertation, University of Iowa, 1995.

Alexander, Shawn Leigh. “Marcus Garvey and the Chicago Defender, 1917-1923.” PhD Dissertation, University of Iowa, 1995.

Alexander, Ann Field. Race Man: The Rise and Fall of the “Fighting Editor” John Mitchell Jr.  Charlottesville. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002.

Ammons, Linda, John Dimmick, and Joseph J. Pilotta. “Crime News Reporting in a Black Weekly.” Journalism Quarterly 59, no. 2 (Summer 1982): 310–13.

Anderson, Daniel Roger. “Renaissance Men: The Harlem Intelligentsia, the African–American Press, and the Culture of Sport, 1918–1940.” PhD Dissertation, University of Minnesota, 2005.

Bacon, Jacqueline. Freedom’s Journal: The First African-American Newspaper. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007.

Bacon, Jacqueline. “‘Acting as Freemen’: Rhetoric, Race, and Reform in the Debate over Colonization in Freedom’s Journal, 1827–1828.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 93, no. 1 (May 8, 2007): 58–83.

Bacon, Jacqueline. “The History of Freedom’s Journal: A Study in Empowerment and Community.” Journal of African American History 88, no. 1 (Winter 2003): 1–20.

Baldasty, Gerald J., and Mark E. LaPoint. “The Press and the African-American Community: The Role of the Northwest Enterprise in the 1930s.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 94, no. Winter (2003 2002): 14–26.

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Banner-Haley, Charles Pete. “The Philadelphia Tribune and the Persistence of Black Republicanism During the Great Depression.” Pennsylvania History 65, no. 2 (Spring 1998): 190–202.

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Bederman, Gail. ““Civilization," the Decline of Middle-Class Manliness, and Ida B. Wells’s Antilynching Campaign (1892-94).” Radical History Review 52, no. 1 (n.d.): 5–30.

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Berardi, Gayle K., and Thomas W. Segady. “Community Identification and Cultural Formation: The Role of African American Newspapers in the American West, 1880-1914.” Briot 10, no. 1 (Spring 1991): 13–19.

Berardi, Gayle K., and Thomas W. Segady. “Community Identification and Cultural Formation:  The Role of African American Newspapers in the American West, 1880-1914.” Briot 10, no. 1 (Spring 1991): 13–19.

Berardi, Gayle K., and Thomas W. Segady. “The Development of African-American Newspapers in the American West: A Sociohistorical Perspective.” Journal of Negro History 75, no. 3–4 (Summer-Fall 1990): 9–111.

Berardi, Gayle K., and Thomas W. Segady. “Community Identification and Cultural Formation: The Role of African American Newspapers in the American West, 1880-1914.” Briot 10, no. 1 (Spring 1991): 13–19.

Berardi, Gayle K., and Thomas W. Segady. “The Development of African-American Newspapers in the American West: A Sociohistorical Perspective.” Journal of Negro History 75, no. 3–4 (Summer-Fall 1990): 9–111.

Berry, General, E. “The Nine Eleven Crisis: A Comparison of Selected Black Newspapers.” PhD Dissertation, Texas Southern University, 2008.

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Blocker, Jr., Jack S. “Building Networks:  Cooperation and Communication Among African Americans in the Urban Midwest, 1860-1910.” Indiana Magazine of History 99, no. 4 (December 2003): 370–86.

Bowie, Rian. “Is There a Woman in the Text? The Black Press and the Emergence of Organized Black Womanhood, 1827-1900.” PhD Dissertation, Emory University, 2007.

Boyd, Herb. “The Black Press: A Long History of Service and Advocacy.” Crisis 98, no. 3 (March 1991): 10–13.

Boyd, Herb. “The Black Press: A Long History of Service and Advocacy.” Crisis 98, no. 3 (March 1991): 10–13.

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Broussard, Jinx Coleman. Giving Voice to the Voiceless: Four Pioneering Black Women Journalists. New York: Routledge, 2004.

Broussard, Jinx Coleman. “Exhortation to Action: The Writings of Amy Jacques Garvey, Journalist and Black Nationalist.” Journalism History 32, no. 2 (Summer 2006): 87–95.

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Burroughs, Todd S. “Drums in the Global Village: Toward an Ideological History of Black Media.” PhD Dissertation, University of Maryland, 2001.

Burrowes, Carl Patrick. “In Common with Colored Men, I Have Certain Sentiments: Black Nationalism and Hilary Teage of the Liberia Herald.” American Journalism 16, no. 3 (1999): 17–35.

Byers, Stephen Robert. “Diverse Community, Diverse Newspapers:  How Milwaukee’s Black Press Reflected Its Diversity, 1968-2002.” PhD Dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2004.

Calloway, Candace Michelle. “News Media, Black Women and Hurricane Katrina: Comparing Localized Content to Local Perceptions.” PhD Dissertation, Howard University, 2009.

Campbell, Yolanda Denise. “Outsiders Within: A Framing Analysis of Eight Black and White U.S. Newspaper Coverage of the Civil Rights Movement 1954-1964.” PhD Dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 2011.

Carins, Kathleen A. “The Press As Pulpit: Charlotta Bass and the California Eagle.” Front-Page Women Journalists, 1920-1950. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003.

Carlisle, Anthony Todd. “The Black Press and the Shaping of Protest in African American Literature, 1840-1935.” PhD Dissertation, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2009.

Carroll, Brian. “From Fraternity to Fracture: Black Press Coverage of and Involvement in Negro League Baseball in the 1920s.” American Journalism 23, no. 2 (Spring 2006): 96–95.

Carroll, Brian. “When to Stop Cheering?  The Black Press, the Black Community, and the Integration of Professional Baseball.” PhD Dissertation, University of North Carolina, 2003.

Carroll, Frederick James. “Race News: How Black Reporters and Readers Shaped the Fight for Racial Justice, 1877—1978.” PhD Dissertation, The College of William and Mary, 2012.

Carroll, Brian. When to Stop the Cheering: The Black Press, the Black Community and the Integration of Professional Baseball. New York: Routledge, 2006.

Carroll, Brian. “Early Twentieth-Century Heroes: Coverage of Negro League Baseball in the Pittsburgh Courier and the Chicago Defender.” Journalism History 32, no. 1 (Spring 2006): 34–42.

Carter, Julette B. “The Role of the Black Press in the 1923 Trial of Marcus Mosiah Garvey.” American Journalism 14, no. 2 (Spring 1997): 131–47.

Cavanaugh, Laurie. “Q&A: LaShonda Katrice Barnett.” Library Journal 140.” Library Journal 140, no. 3 (February 15, 2015): 92.