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Article: A Historical Overview: The Washington Informer Celebrates 30 Years Of
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- March 23, 1994
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Alvin Peabody
Washington Informer
03-23-1994
A Historical Overview: The Washington Informer Celebrates 30 Years Of. Publication
By Alvin Peabody
Thirty years ago, The Washington Informer became Washington, D.C.'s newest Black-owned newspaper. Its primary focus then (as it still is now), was presenting the news from a Black perspective.
"Having grown up in a segregated southern town known as Texarkana, Texas, I knew that the only times Black people were written up in the newspaper was when a Black person had killed, raped or robbed someone. And all of our news was restricted to the obituary page," recalled publisher Calvin W. Rolark.
Then there was the importance of supporting Black-owned ...