By: Stacy Brown, NNPA From Freedom’s Journal to the North Star to John Abbott’s Chicago Defender, African American-owned newspapers have sparked fires for truth and equality that have burned with the passion of fighting for freedom throughout history. On March 16, 1827, Samuel E. Cornish and John B. Russwurm founded the first Black-owned newspaper in […]
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