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Publishers honor Black press

Chikwendu, Talibah
Washington Afro-American
03-24-2006
In the early years of this nation, everything about the Black man was
devalued. He was enslaved; his very person possessed as chattel. Freed, he
was still treated as less. He was ignored when possible and when that
wasn't possible, mistreated. Worst of all, there was no one to tell the
story.

One hundred seventy-nine years ago, that changed, when on March 16, 1827,
Freedom's Journal, the first Black newspaper, was published. Samuel E.
Cornish, a minister and vocal abolitionist, and John B. Russwurm co-edited
this publication. Their mission: to tell the whole story of the Negro.

In the first issue they define the scope of their endeavor: "We ...

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