VOICES: Why Black Media Matters

Our newspapers allow us to speak to our own communities on our own terms with our own voices. “We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us.” That was part of the inaugural editorial penned by Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm in Freedom’s Journal, the first Black newspaper in the United States. Recently the […]Our newspapers allow us to speak to our own communities on our own terms with our own voices. “We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us.” That was part of the inaugural editorial penned by Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm in Freedom’s Journal, the first Black newspaper in the United States. Recently the […]Read MoreFeedzy