The New York Age was an American weekly newspaper established in 1887 in New York City. It was widely considered one of the most prominent African-American newspapers of its time. It also went by the names the New York Globe , the New York Freeman , and the New York Age Defender .
7-487: The New York Age newspaper was founded as the weekly New York Globe (not to be confused with New York's Saturday family weekly, The Globe , founded 1892 by James M. Place or the daily The New York Globe founded in 1904), an African-American newspaper that was published weekly from at least 1880 to November 8, 1884. It was co-founded by editor Timothy Thomas Fortune , a former slave; his brother, Emanuel Fortune Jr.; and editor, Jerome B. Peterson . The newspaper became
14-662: The Globe as assistant publisher. He became publisher in 1910. In 1912, the Globe was one of a cooperative of four newspapers, including the Chicago Daily News , The Boston Globe , and the Philadelphia Bulletin , to form the Associated Newspapers syndicate. The Globe was known for originating Robert Ripley 's popular feature Ripley's Believe it or Not! in 1918. In 1916,
21-634: The Bedford‐Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, in Harlem and in Newark.” The New York Globe The New York Globe , also called The New York Evening Globe , was a daily New York City newspaper published from 1904 to 1923, when it was bought and merged into The New York Sun . It is not related to a New York City-based Saturday family newspaper, The Globe , which was founded by James M. Place in 1892 and published until at least 1899. The Globe
28-493: The [New York] Freeman, from November 22, 1884 to October 8, 1887, published six times weekly. On October 15, 1887, the newspaper officially became the weekly New York Age. Fred R. Moore bought the paper in 1907 from Fortune brothers and Peterson. Peterson continued to work at the paper after the sale, as an advisor; and was made the American consul to Puerto Cabello , Venezuela , from 1904 to 1906. From 1953 to 1957, it
35-469: The paper distributed the theatrical documentary Germany on the Firing Line , under the titles The Globe's War Films and The Evening Globe's "Germany at the Firing Line" . One publisher was Samuel Strauss . Notable contributors included a fledgling Maxwell Anderson , and cartoonist Percy Crosby , then a sports columnist. Frank Munsey bought the paper in 1923. Munsey, who consolidated
42-517: Was launched on February 1, 1904. It was a wholly revamped one-cent version of the two-cent paper known as the Commercial Advertiser which dated back to 1793. The official name of the new paper was The Globe and Commercial Advertiser , though it was more typically referred to as the Globe . Jason Rogers , grandson of William Cauldwell , who got his start in the newspaper business at Cauldwell's Sunday Mercury , helped launch
49-607: Was titled the New York Age Defender . Gertrude Bustill Mossell worked at the New York Age from 1885 to 1889. W. E. B. Du Bois also worked there. In 1974, the New York Age was revitalized by Adam Clayton Powell III in an attempt to recapture the energy and influence the original Age had. The new version of the paper initially published 100,000 copies. The New York Times reported in 1974: “The paper has six, full‐time reporters and will have bureaus in
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