Afro-American
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Afro-American (newspaper)
| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Founded | 1892 |
| Official website | afro.com |
The Afro-American is an African American newspaper in the United States servicing the Baltimore-D.C. metro area.[1]
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Mission
Its mission is to educate and empower the African American community and promote civil rights.
History
The paper was founded in 1892 by former slave, John H. Murphy, Sr. when he merged his church publication The Sunday School Helper with two similar publications in Baltimore. Over the years the Newspaper has joined with groups like the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to help promote social change including desegregation of public schools in the 1950s. The Afro-American continues to be a family-run newspaper and is currently being run by the third generation of Murphy's since its inception.
The current publisher of the Afro-American newspaper is John "Jake" Oliver.
References
- ^ "The Afro American". Google News. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=UBnQDr5gPskC&dat=19720408&b_mode=2&hl=en. Retrieved 2012-01-24.
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