In 1827, he became junior editor of The Freedom's Journal, the first newspaper in the United States owned, operated, published and edited by African-Americans. The journal opposed the idea of ...

Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman, and also the first ... most widely distributed Black newspaper, remarked, "There is reason to believe that the general public did not ...

an ambitious and civic-minded leader in the African-American community founded the ... president in 1981 and the Tribune became the first newspaper in the city to use color on its pages.