First Black Daily Newspaper Founded
Thirty-seven years after the first Black newspaper in America was founded in New York City (Freedom’s Journal, 1827) the Black press reached another milestone with the launching of the New Orleans Tribune, destined to become the race’s first daily news publication.
The Tribune’s roots can be traced to another landmark event that saw the first Black newspaper ...
2002 Gallery of Greats
This Year's Miller Brewing Company Gallery of Greats focuses on the
remarkable achievements of African Americans in the Black Press. The Gallery
of Greats illuminates the success and contributions these honorees have
made. Ranging from John B. Russwum, one of the earliest editors of Freedom's
Journal to William Raspberry, the Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for the
Washington Post, this year's honorees shine as examples of this country's
independence and development.
Editor’s Note: The following are excerpts from a commentary by Pittsburgh Courier columnist George Schuyler. The iconoclast was the foremost Black columnist of the 1930s and 1940s and one of the paper's editorial writers. Author Frederick S. Voss described Schuyler's style as "a blend of colorful terminology, unmincing ...
