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36-466: The Atlanta Daily World is the oldest black newspaper in Atlanta , Georgia , founded in 1928. Currently owned by Real Times Inc. , it publishes daily online. It was "one of the earliest and most influential black newspapers." It was founded as the weekly Atlanta World on August 5, 1928, by William Alexander Scott II who was only 26 at the time. Scott was a Morehouse graduate who later worked as

72-505: A daily in 1931. In 1931, Scott also began publishing the Chattanooga Tribune and Memphis World , and by doing so, founded the first chain of black newspapers, a chain that would eventually grow, at its peak, to fifty publications. In 1932 Scott's Atlanta World became a daily and added "Daily" to its title, becoming the first black daily in the U.S. in the 20th century and the first successful one in all U.S. history. At

108-506: A joint statement with developer Integral Group claiming that demolition of the building but saving the façade was the only feasible option to preserve any portion of the historic structure and thus preserve the history in some physical form. On January 8, 2014, the offices were sold to commercial real estate developer and Sidewalk Radio host Gene Kansas who stated that he planned to restore the building for retail and residential use, and that it would be designed by Gamble and Gamble architects,

144-526: A result of black participation in the Gold Rush. The American Freedman was a New York-based paper that served as an outlet to inspire African Americans to use the Reconstruction era as a time for social and political advancement. This newspaper did so by publishing articles that referenced African American mobilization during that era that had not only local support but had gained support from

180-711: A wall that let black people into society. The Roanoke Tribune was founded in 1939 by Fleming Alexander , and recently celebrated its 75th anniversary. The Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder is Minnesota's oldest black-owned newspaper and one of the United States' oldest ongoing minority publication, second only to The Jewish World . Many Black newspapers that began publishing in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s went out of business because they could not attract enough advertising. They were also victims of their own substantial efforts to eradicate racism and promote civil rights. As of 2002 , about 200 Black newspapers remained. With

216-645: The Chicago Defender and New Pittsburgh Courier . Alexis Scott said the sale would give the World more multimedia resources, calling it "truly a new beginning for the paper." In 2008, the Downtown Atlanta tornado damaged the World ' s offices at 145 Auburn Avenue. The paper's operations subsequently moved to another location. In 2012, Scott announced plans to sell the building where this important part of Atlanta's black history took place;

252-842: The North Star (1847–1860), the National Era , The Aliened American in Cleveland (1853–1855), Frederick Douglass' Paper (1851–1863), the Douglass Monthly (1859–1863), The People's Advocate , founded by John Wesley Cromwell and Travers Benjamin Pinn (1876–1891), and The Christian Recorder (1861–1902). In the 1860s, the newspapers The Elevator and the Pacific Appeal emerged in California as

288-749: The Richmond Planet and president of the National Afro-American Press Association; Anthony Overton (1865–1946), publisher of the Chicago Bee ; Garth C. Reeves Sr. (1919–2019), publisher emeritus of the Miami Times ; and Robert Lee Vann (1879–1940), the publisher and editor of the Pittsburgh Courier . In the 1940s, the number of newspapers grew from 150 to 250. From 1881 to 1909,

324-606: The Tri-State Defender weekly newspaper in 1951. In 1965, he purchased the assets of the recently defunct Pittsburgh Courier and started the New Pittsburgh Courier This chain became known as Sengstacke Enterprises Inc., or SEI. Following Sengstacke's death in 1997, SEI was held in a family trust until 2003, when it was sold for nearly $ 12 million to Real Times, a group of investors with several business and family ties to Sengstacke. Amid

360-777: The Chicago Daily Defender , the nation's second black daily newspaper (after the Atlanta Daily World , founded in 1928). It published as a daily until 2003, when new owners converted the Defender back to a weekly. Sengstacke also built his newspaper into a chain. He had previously established the Michigan Chronicle in Detroit in 1936, and turned the Chicago paper's Memphis bureau into

396-643: The Daily World was criticized for not supporting sit-ins staged at several white-owned restaurants in downtown Atlanta. Advertisers threatened to pull their business if the demonstrations did not stop. C.A. Scott thought the demonstrations were dangerous, would work against the participants when they later would be looking for jobs, and reasoned that blacks would more effectively improve their situation by working towards ending segregation in education, obtaining political and voting influence, and improving their economic situations. Editorial content during this period

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432-822: The Globe Tobacco Building in Downtown Detroit , and later the Buhl Building in Downtown Detroit. Real Times publishes seven newspapers in five different markets: The company also owns RTM Digital Studios, a videography company, and a large archive of newspaper clippings, artifacts and photographs connected with African-American history. In 2009, Real Times purchased Who's Who Publishing Company of Columbus, Ohio , which publishes biographical and networking guides for and about African American businesspeople in 25 cities across

468-550: The National Colored Press Association (American Press Association) operated as a trade association. The National Negro Business League -affiliated National Negro Press Association filled that role from 1909 to 1939. The Chicago-based Associated Negro Press (1919–1964) was a subscription news agency "with correspondents and stringers in all major centers of black population". In 1940, Sengstacke led African American newspaper publishers in forming

504-542: The eastern and Midwestern United States . Its headquarters are in Midtown Detroit . The company was founded in January 2003 by a consortium of Chicago and Detroit business leaders to take over the assets of Sengstacke Enterprises Inc. , the longtime owner of five of the papers. Robert Sengstacke Abbott founded the Chicago Defender in 1905, billing it the "World's Greatest Weekly". The Defender served

540-608: The 1940s it sponsored voter registration efforts. The paper also covered the Atlanta black community's social, church, and sports news. The Daily World covered, on a national basis, topics including: Cornelius Scott retired in 1997 and his great niece, Alexis Scott Reeves, took over as publisher. Reeves has previously been a journalist at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution , Atlanta's leading daily, and later vice-president of community affairs there. During

576-470: The 1980s and 1990s, the newspaper's circulation declined from its peak over 20,000 in the 1960s to a steady 10,000. By 2000, although it retained the word "Daily" in its name, it had cut back its publication schedule to only two editions per week, on Sundays and Thursdays. In 2012, the Atlanta Daily World joined Real Times Inc. , a publisher of five other African-American weeklies, including

612-655: The Great Migration from southern states to northern states from 1910 to 1930 and during the Second Great Migration from 1941 to 1970. In the 21st century, papers (like newspapers of all sorts) have shut down, merged, or shrunk in response to the dominance of the Internet in terms of providing free news and information, and providing cheap advertising. Most of the early African American publications, such as Freedom's Journal, were published in

648-520: The North and then distributed, often covertly, to African Americans throughout the country. The newspaper often covered regional, national, and international news. It also addressed the issues of American slavery and The American Colonization Society which involved the repatriation of free blacks back to Africa. Some notable black newspapers of the 19th century were Freedom's Journal (1827–1829), Philip Alexander Bell 's Colored American (1837–1841),

684-477: The buyer had plans to demolish the building. This caused outcry in the local Old Fourth Ward neighborhood at the loss of yet another historic building on Auburn Avenue. The Historic District Development Corporation , whose mission is historic preservation in the Martin Luther King Jr. Historic District launched an online petition to save the building. Owner and publisher Alexis Scott responded in

720-624: The contemporary black press , the Defender enjoyed substantial circulation across the nation. Abbott's nephew John H. Sengstacke , who became publisher in 1940, was a founder of the National Negro Publishers Association, later renamed the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), which now has 200 member black newspapers. On February 6, 1956, the Defender became a daily newspaper and changed its name to

756-401: The decline of print media and proliferation of internet access, more black news websites emerged, most notably Black Voice News , The Grio , The Root , and Black Voices . Real Times Inc. Real Times Media LLC is the owner and publisher of the Chicago Defender , the largest and most influential African American weekly newspaper , as well as five other regional weeklies in

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792-617: The founding of the National Federation of Afro American Women in 1895. It was also one of the first newspapers, along with the National Association Notes , to create journalism career opportunities for Southern black women. Many African American newspapers struggled to keep their circulation going due to the low rate of literacy among African Americans. Many freed African Americans had low incomes and could not afford to purchase subscriptions but shared

828-444: The four Sengstacke titles. In 2012, the Atlanta Daily World – which, despite its name, is now published weekly – merged with Real Times; its publisher said the sale would give the World more multimedia resources, calling it "truly a new beginning for the paper." In June 2024, influential Real Times Media co-owner William Pickard died. The company has its headquarters in Midtown Detroit . At one time its headquarters were in

864-539: The global community as well. The name The Colored Citizen was used by various newspapers established in the 1860s and later. In 1885, Daniel Rudd formed the Ohio Tribune , said to be the first newspaper "printed by and for Black Americans ", which he later expanded into the American Catholic Tribune , purported to the first Black-owned national newspaper. The Cleveland Gazette

900-538: The growing African-American community of Chicago, which was often ignored by the mainstream newspapers of the day. Sengstacke also used the Defender as a means to grow the community, writing stories about Northern city life that enticed African-American residents of the Southern United States to move to Chicago, a phenomenon that came to be known as the Great Migration . Like other giants of

936-494: The only black clerk on the Jacksonville to Washington, D.C. , rail line, then in 1927 published a Jacksonville business directory to help blacks find each other. A year later he published a similar directory for Atlanta. At the time, there was very little coverage of black educational institutions, businesses, prominent persons, churches, or other news of significance; the exceptions being crime news and death listings. This

972-496: The press, displaced Black women to the background of a movement they spearheaded. A woman's issue, and a Black woman's issue, was being covered by the press. However, reporting diminished the roles of the women fighting for teacher salary equalization and “diminished the presence of the teachers’ salary equalization fight” in national debates over equality in education. There were many specialized black publications, such as those of Marcus Garvey and John H. Johnson . These men broke

1008-518: The publications with one another. African American newspapers flourished in the major cities, with publishers playing a major role in politics and business affairs. By the 20th century, daily papers appeared in Norfolk , Chicago , Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Representative leaders included Robert Sengstacke Abbott (1870–1940) and John H. Sengstacke (1912–1997), publishers of the Chicago Defender ; John Mitchell Jr. (1863–1929), editor of

1044-722: The same firm redesigning the Clermont Motor Inn on Ponce de Leon Avenue in Poncey-Highland into a boutique hotel. The refurbished building features two retail spaces with two apartments above, and reopened on March 12, 2015. African American newspaper As African Americans moved to urban centers beginning during the Reconstruction era , virtually every large city with a significant African American population had newspapers directed towards African Americans. These newspapers gained audiences outside African American circles. Demographic changes continued with

1080-505: The time of its founding, the only other black paper in the area was the Atlanta Independent , which ceased publication in 1933. This left the Daily World as the only black paper in town. Its offices were on Auburn Avenue ("Sweet Auburn") celebrated as the home of the black business, social, and religious community and famously called by John Wesley Dobbs the "richest Negro street in the world". On February 4, 1934, Scott

1116-488: The trade association known in the 21st century as the National Newspaper Publishers Association . During the 1930s and 1940s, the Black southern press both aided and, to an extent, hindered the equal payment movement of Black teachers in the southern United States. Newspaper coverage of the movement served to publicize the cause. However, the way in which the movement was portrayed, and those whose struggles were highlighted in

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1152-590: The uncertainty over the SEI papers' futures—Sengstacke had left instructions that the papers were to be sold upon his death, but the search for the right buyer took six years—longtime Michigan Chronicle publisher Sam Logan left the paper in 2000 and in May of that year formed a competing weekly, The Michigan FrontPage . Logan was one of the investors in Real Times, and the company continued to publish FrontPage alongside

1188-422: Was despite the fact that Atlanta contained at the time the most prominent black educational institutions and persons of influence in the country. Whites lived to a large extent sealed off from black Atlanta and only interacted with blacks in service positions, virtually unaware of the black institutions and achievements taking place only a mile or two from their homes. The paper became a semi-weekly in May 1930, and

1224-600: Was established in the 1880s and continued for decades. The national Afro-American Press Association was formed in 1890 in Indianapolis, Indiana . In 1894, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin founded The Woman's Era , the first nationally distributed newspaper published by and for African American women in the United States. The Woman's Era began as the official publication of the National Association of Colored Women , and grew in import and impact with

1260-444: Was mainly neutral in tone, as opposed to actively promoting Negro rights or attacking racism, and as such white businesses did not feel threatened by its content, allowing the Daily World to secure advertising support from companies such as Coca-Cola , Sears, Roebuck and Rich's , the largest department store in the city. The paper did urge blacks to shop at black-owned businesses (the "Don't Buy Where You Can't Work" campaign). In

1296-528: Was shot and killed; no one was ever convicted of the crime. His brother, Cornelius Adolphus (C.A.) Scott, took over as head of the paper, which subsequently adopted a more conservative, Republican position, reflecting Cornelius' own political views and his resentment over the Democrats ' historical support of segregation and bias against African-Americans. During the Civil Rights Movement ,

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