Black news media

Black news Media
Black news media is important to today’s African American. We as African Americans need Black news media to portray our point of views, and concerns in our society. African American have came a long way since 1821. That was the year that John B. Russwurm and Reverened Samuel Cornish produced the first newspaper published by African Americans in the United States. The name of the paper was Freedom’s Journal. In the journal they wrote the phrase “We wish to plead our own cause, too long have others spoken for us”. Other African Americans such as William Lloyd Garrison, and Federick Douglass also started their own papers. William Garrison founded the Liberator in 1831, with the expressed purpose of producing a public backlash against slavery while Frederick Douglass started the North Star in 1847 to attack slavery. This publication later became Frederick Douglass Weekly and was followed by Douglass Monthly, which originated as a supplement to the Weekly.
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