The Digital Archives of the Oldest Black Newspaper in America Show a Long Struggle for Justice
Today’s events aren’t simply another turn of the news cycle
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14 min readJun 16, 2020
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In 1892, former slave, Civil War veteran, and Baltimore citizen John H. Murphy Sr. had a vision for a new kind of news source: one that would serve the city’s African American population. Merging several…