Image: Linotype Operators of the Chicago Defender, 1941 (Wikimedia Commons).
Archives & Collections
The Black Panther Intercommunal News Service. See also other collections of BPP newspapers, here and here.
Black Press Research Collective.
Archive of The Crisis.
Archive of Freedom’s Journal.
Archive of The Messenger.
National Urban League publications, 1930-1960.
One-year anniversary issue of The North Star.
Unity and Struggle. (Published by the Congress of African People, led by Amiri Baraka.)
Books
Thomas Aiello:
- The Grapevine of the Black South: The Scott Newspaper Syndicate in the Generation before the Civil Rights Movement.
- The Life and Times of Louis Lomax: The Art of Deliberate Disunity.
Simeon Booker: Shocking the Conscience: A Reporter’s Account of the Civil Rights Movement.
Fred Carroll: Race News: Black Journalists and the Fight for Racial Justice in the Twentieth Century.
Alice Dunnigan: Alone atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press.
Benjamin Fagan: The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation.
Brigitte Fielder: Against a Sharp White Background: Infrastructures of African American Print.
Kathy Roberts Forde & Alex Lichtenstein: Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America.
Kim Gallon: Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press.
Eric Gardner: Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture.
Jerry Gershenhorn: Louis Austin and the Carolina Times: A Life in the Long Black Freedom Struggle.
Juan Gonzalez and Joseph Torres: News For All The People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media.
D’Weston Haywood: Let Us Make Men: The Twentieth-Century Black Press and a Manly Vision for Racial Advancement.
Gerald Horne: The Rise and Fall of the Associated Negro Press: Claude Barnett’s Pan-African News and the Jim Crow Paradox.
Amy Helene Kirschke: Art in Crisis: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Struggle for African American Identity and Memory.
Kimberley Mangun: Editor Emory O. Jackson, the Birmingham World, and the Fight for Civil Rights in Alabama, 1940-1975.
James McGrath Morris: Eye On the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press.
Ethan Michaeli: The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America.
Robert J. Norrell: Alex Haley: And the Books That Changed a Nation.
Carole A. Parks (editor): Nommo: A Literary Legacy of Black Chicago (1967-1987) An OBAC Anthology.
Gene Roberts: The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation.
Christopher M. Tinson: Radical Intellect: Liberator Magazine and Black Activism in the 1960s.
Patrick S. Washburn: The African American Newspaper: Voice of Freedom.
E. James West: Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America.
Sondra Kathryn Wilson (editor):
- The Crisis Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the N.A.A.C.P.’s Crisis Magazine.
- The Opportunity Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the Urban League’s Opportunity Magazine.
- The Messenger Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from The Messenger Magazine.
Articles
Bala James Baptiste: Radio Journalism and Civil Rights.
Black Perspectives: Roundup of articles on The Liberator magazine.
Keisha N. Blain: Louis Austin and the Carolina Times: A New Book on A North Carolina Journalist and Activist.
Siobhan Carter-David: Essence as Archive on the Occasion of its Golden Anniversary.
Joshua Clark Davis: On the Life and Legacy of Black Journalist Louis Lomax.
Black Past:
- Freedomways: (1961-1985).
- Global African History Newspapers, Magazines, and Journals.
- Chicago Defender.
- The Messenger.
Adam Lee Cilli: The Pittsburgh Courier’s Discursive Power, 1910-1940.
Paul Hébert: Getting the Word Out: The Circulation of Black Power Newspapers.
Ibram X. Kendi:
- Radical Intellect: A New Book on Liberator Magazine.
- The Defender: A New Book on Chicago’s Legendary Black Newspaper.
NAACP: History of “The Crisis.”
Jessica Parr: Ownership and Access: The Ebony and Jet Magazines Archive.
Kevin C. Quin: Black Periodicals and the Politics of Racial Uplift.
Janell Ross: The Key Role a Local Newspaper Played in the Trial Over Ahmaud Arbery’s Murder.
Jacinta R. Saffold: Celebrating 50 Years of Essence as a Black Women’s Archive.
Chernoh Sesay Jr.: Museums, Newspapers, and African American Archives.
Thomas Smith: The Digital Archives of the Oldest Black Newspaper in America Show a Long Struggle for Justice.
Christopher Tinson:
- Liberator Magazine and Black Activism: An Author’s Response.
- Remembering the Black Radical Press.
- “Held in Trust by History:” The Intellectual Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr.
Malea Walker: Ida B. Wells and the Activism of Investigative Journalism.
E. James West:
The Zinn Education Project: Dec. 3, 1847: North Star Newspaper Launched.