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

Thomas Smith
OneZero
Published in
14 min readJun 16, 2020

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Photos: Afro Newspaper/Gado/Getty Images

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…

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