At the helm of Baltimore’s three Black news organizations ... As Draper explains it, she was born into “a newspaper family.” The AFRO has remained under the control of Murphy descendants ...

a civil rights trailblazer and longtime president of the Baltimore NAACP; John Henry Murphy, founder of The Afro-American Newspaper; Dr. Nellie Louise Young, Maryland’s first African-American ...

He served a stint as editor-in-chief of the Baltimore Afro-American Newspaper, before moving into the broadcast space.