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›Black Newspapers: Issues for the Times

To colored women, we have a word—we have ‘broken the Editorial ice’ ... for your class in America; so go to Editing, as many of you as are willing, and able.

Mary Ann Shadd, 1855

We feel the Black community still has an unquenchable thirst for its cultural news, its community news, and that’s what we focus on.

John J. Oliver Jr., Publisher and CEO of the Afro-American Newspapers, 2017