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How a Small Black-Owned Newspaper Fought a Racist Establishment and Won


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If you think the news is a battleground now, you should have been in Trinidad in August 1969. That's when the Trinidad Express refused to stop covering the story of Dr. Leonard Hanna, a Black American dentist, and his wife, who'd been turned away from the Trinidad Country Club tennis courts despite their staying at a nearby Hilton whose guests were routinely allowed use of the club's facilities. The Hannas' taxi driver, irate, took them to share their story with the Express.
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