Black owned newspapers have been community bedrocks for sharing issues, news, and concerns since 1827. Join Dr. Carol François and Kourtney Square as they tell about a courageous female journalist who was terrorized and threatened with death for protesting three brutal lynchings in Memphis, TN. She went on to be central to the crusade against lynching, the development of Black newspapers, and the techniques of investigative journalism. Want more like this? Go to https://www.podpage.com/why-are-they-so-angry/ to get the history they didn’t teach you in school.

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Black journalists push media to cover ‘hyper-racial’ moment in politics - POLITICO

Black Press History | NNPA

BlackPressUSA

Timeline: Milestones of the Black Press in the U.S. - Nieman Reports

 Independent Black-Owned Newspapers in the United States

7 facts about black Americans and the news media | Pew Research Center

The Black Press: Past and Present - Nieman Reports

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