The Richmond Free Press, a Black newspaper in Virginia’s capital city, ceases publication after three decades.

For many years, Eugene E. Coleman Sr. told the stories of San Antonio's Black community. Coleman was the publisher of SNAP, one of San Antonio’s Black-owned publications and longest-running weekly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The late Eugene Coleman, pictured here in 2004, was the long-time publisher of SNAP, a newspaper covering San Antonio's Black ...

When Ida B. Wells published Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases in 1892, an unflinching investigation into the utilization of lynching to subjugate free Black men, she also exposed America’s ...

On January 15, Dr. David Goldfarb, an independent scholar and host of “Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature,” a YouTube program sponsored by the Polish Cultural Institute in New York, gave ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville Free Press, founded in September 1986 by Rita Carter Perry, marks a 40-year legacy of representing the Black press in Jacksonville. Click here for more Black ...

The closure of two respected Black newspapers, the Portland Skanner and Richmond Free Press, highlights the challenges faced by Black media.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday at age 84, helped push for widespread usage of the term “African American” as a way to reclaim cultural identity. The protege of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther ...

“It just brought back a lot of memories because I spent so many years here,” said Andrea Burney, Danville Register & Bee’s first Black reporter. After graduating from George Washington High School in ...

The Richmond Free Press, the city’s African American weekly newspaper, is shutting down after 34 years. Founded by the late Raymond H. Boone Sr., a crusading editor of the old school variety, the Free ...