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24-407: Founded in 1966 by Ed Clayton and J. Lowell Ware, the paper now distributes 40,000 copies via 600 metropolitan locations and offers digital content via a website and social media. Today, the paper is published by Janis Ware, J. Lowell Ware's daughter, who took over the paper after her father's death in 1991. The paper's motto is "A people without a voice cannot be heard." The Atlanta Voice is a member of

48-469: A building and created his own press for the paper, due to printing restrictions imposed by White-owned printing presses. The Atlanta Voice's press was the first and only Black-owned press in the southeastern United States until it ceased its printing operations in 2003. Ware moved the offices for the Atlanta Voice to Mechanicsville in 1972, vowing to revitalize the community. In 1989 J. Lowell Ware co-founded

72-536: A common purpose for the benefit of Negro journalism". Sengstacke succeeded in realizing a dream that his uncle, Robert Sengstacke Abbott , had for many years. Fittingly, Abbott died on the morning of the inaugural conference on February, 29, 1940. The younger Sengstacke was selected as the first president of the NNPA, and D. Arnett Murphy , the son of John H. Murphy Sr. , who published the Baltimore Afro-American ,

96-487: A nationally-known journalist in Chicago who published a biography of Dr. King in 1964. In 1965, Clayton moved to Atlanta with his wife Xernona Clayton to help Dr. King with public relations and speech writing. Clayton died in 1966, after helping to launch the Atlanta Voice. Xernona Clayton wrote a column for the Atlanta Voice and maintained a close friendship with Dr. King's wife, Coretta Scott King . J. Lowell Ware purchased

120-636: A project of the Black Press Institute and handled by XIGroup, a Web development firm co-owned by Joy Bramble, publisher of The Baltimore Times , an NNPA member publication." In 2023, the NNPA is composed of more than 160 African American newspapers in the United States and the Virgin Islands with a combined readership that exceeds 15 million people. Books: African American newspapers African American newspapers (also known as

144-704: A wall that let black people into society. The Roanoke Tribune was founded in 1939 by Fleming Alexander , and recently celebrated its 75th anniversary. The Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder is Minnesota's oldest black-owned newspaper and one of the United States' oldest ongoing minority publication, second only to The Jewish World . Many Black newspapers that began publishing in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s went out of business because they could not attract enough advertising. They were also victims of their own substantial efforts to eradicate racism and promote civil rights. As of 2002 , about 200 Black newspapers remained. With

168-706: The Richmond Planet and president of the National Afro-American Press Association; Anthony Overton (1865–1946), publisher of the Chicago Bee ; Garth C. Reeves Sr. (1919–2019), publisher emeritus of the Miami Times ; and Robert Lee Vann (1879–1940), the publisher and editor of the Pittsburgh Courier . In the 1940s, the number of newspapers grew from 150 to 250. From 1881 to 1909,

192-536: The National Colored Press Association (American Press Association) operated as a trade association. The National Negro Business League -affiliated National Negro Press Association filled that role from 1909 to 1939. The Chicago-based Associated Negro Press (1919–1964) was a subscription news agency "with correspondents and stringers in all major centers of black population". In 1940, Sengstacke led African American newspaper publishers in forming

216-646: The National Negro Publishers Association , is an association of African American newspaper publishers from across the United States . It was established in 1940 and took its current name in 1956. Its headquarters was in Louisville, Kentucky . The NNPA was founded in 1940 when John H. Sengstacke , the second publisher of the Chicago Defender , organized a meeting with other African American publishers intended for "harmonizing our energies in

240-675: The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), a trade group of more than 200 Black-owned media companies in the United States. The Atlanta Voice was created by Ed Clayton and J. Lowell Ware in 1966 out of the basement of Ware’s house. According to Ware's daughter, the paper was established "out of the Civil Rights movement," and is considered to be the only paper that regularly featured Martin Luther King Jr. and other Civil Rights activists. Ed Clayton had been

264-681: The Reconstruction era , virtually every large city with a significant African American population had newspapers directed towards African Americans. These newspapers gained audiences outside African American circles. Demographic changes continued with the Great Migration from southern states to northern states from 1910 to 1930 and during the Second Great Migration from 1941 to 1970. In the 21st century, papers (like newspapers of all sorts) have shut down, merged, or shrunk in response to

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288-661: The 1860s, the newspapers The Elevator and the Pacific Appeal emerged in California as a result of black participation in the Gold Rush. The American Freedman was a New York-based paper that served as an outlet to inspire African Americans to use the Reconstruction era as a time for social and political advancement. This newspaper did so by publishing articles that referenced African American mobilization during that era that had not only local support but had gained support from

312-759: The Atlanta Association of Black Journalists. In 2019, she was elected as the first vice president of the National Newspaper Publisher’s Association. In 2020, the paper's sales manager, Robert DW Jackson won the Sales & Marketing Industry of the Year Award from the Georgia Minority Business Association. National Newspaper Publishers Association The National Newspaper Publishers Association ( NNPA ), formerly

336-503: The Black press or Black newspapers ) are news publications in the United States serving African American communities. Samuel Cornish and John Brown Russwurm started the first African American periodical, Freedom's Journal , in 1827. During the antebellum period, other African American newspapers sprang up, such as The North Star , founded in 1847 by Frederick Douglass . As African Americans moved to urban centers beginning during

360-664: The Summech Community Development Corporation Inc. with community activist Rosa Burney to revitalize the south-Atlanta Mechanicsville community. Janis Ware, J. Lowell Ware's daughter, became owner and publisher of the paper after his death in 1991. She also inherited the Summech Community Development Corporation from her father. In 2011, Janis Ware (owner and publisher) was given the Pioneer Black Journalist award by

384-580: The dominance of the Internet in terms of providing free news and information, and providing cheap advertising. Most of the early African American publications, such as Freedom's Journal, were published in the North and then distributed, often covertly, to African Americans throughout the country. The newspaper often covered regional, national, and international news. It also addressed the issues of American slavery and The American Colonization Society which involved

408-597: The founding of the National Federation of Afro American Women in 1895. It was also one of the first newspapers, along with the National Association Notes , to create journalism career opportunities for Southern black women. Many African American newspapers struggled to keep their circulation going due to the low rate of literacy among African Americans. Many freed African Americans had low incomes and could not afford to purchase subscriptions but shared

432-522: The global community as well. The name The Colored Citizen was used by various newspapers established in the 1860s and later. In 1885, Daniel Rudd formed the Ohio Tribune , said to be the first newspaper "printed by and for Black Americans ", which he later expanded into the American Catholic Tribune , purported to the first Black-owned national newspaper. The Cleveland Gazette

456-496: The press, displaced Black women to the background of a movement they spearheaded. A woman's issue, and a Black woman's issue, was being covered by the press. However, reporting diminished the roles of the women fighting for teacher salary equalization and “diminished the presence of the teachers’ salary equalization fight” in national debates over equality in education. There were many specialized black publications, such as those of Marcus Garvey and John H. Johnson . These men broke

480-513: The publications with one another. African American newspapers flourished in the major cities, with publishers playing a major role in politics and business affairs. By the 20th century, daily papers appeared in Norfolk , Chicago , Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Representative leaders included Robert Sengstacke Abbott (1870–1940) and John H. Sengstacke (1912–1997), publishers of the Chicago Defender ; John Mitchell Jr. (1863–1929), editor of

504-796: The repatriation of free blacks back to Africa. Some notable black newspapers of the 19th century were Freedom's Journal (1827–1829), Philip Alexander Bell 's Colored American (1837–1841), the North Star (1847–1860), the National Era , The Aliened American in Cleveland (1853–1855), Frederick Douglass' Paper (1851–1863), the Douglass Monthly (1859–1863), The People's Advocate , founded by John Wesley Cromwell and Travers Benjamin Pinn (1876–1891), and The Christian Recorder (1861–1902). In

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528-436: The trade association known in the 21st century as the National Newspaper Publishers Association . During the 1930s and 1940s, the Black southern press both aided and, to an extent, hindered the equal payment movement of Black teachers in the southern United States. Newspaper coverage of the movement served to publicize the cause. However, the way in which the movement was portrayed, and those whose struggles were highlighted in

552-585: Was established in the 1880s and continued for decades. The national Afro-American Press Association was formed in 1890 in Indianapolis, Indiana . In 1894, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin founded The Woman's Era , the first nationally distributed newspaper published by and for African American women in the United States. The Woman's Era began as the official publication of the National Association of Colored Women , and grew in import and impact with

576-630: Was selected as the eastern vice president. In 1956, the trade association changed the name to the current moniker. "In 2000, the NNPA launched NNPA Media Services — a print and web advertising placement and press release distribution service." Since 2014, Dr. Benjamin Chavis has been the president and CEO of the organization. In 2001, NNPA created an electronic news service, Black Press USA , which enables newspapers to provide real-time news and information to its national constituency. In 2003, Larry Muhammad reported for NeimanReports that Black Press USA "is

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