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African American Newspapers, Magazines, and Journals
Listed below are links to major African American newspapers, magazines and journals. In some instances these links also include the archives of these media sources.
Newspapers | Magazines | Other
Birmingham Times
Arizona Informant (Phoenix)
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Los Angeles Sentinel
Sacramento Observer
San Francisco Bay View
Denver Urban Spectrum
Denver Weekly
Five Points News
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Capital Outlook (Tallahassee)
Orlando Times
Westside Gazette (Fort Lauderdale)
Atlanta Daily World
Atlanta Voice
Savannah Tribune
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Chicago Defender
Muslim Journal (Homewood)
The North Star News (Chicago)
Indianapolis Recorder
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Baltimore Afro-American
Prince George’s Post (Prince George’s County)
Bay State Banner (Boston)
Michigan Chronicle (Detroit)
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Jackson Advocate
Kansas City Call
St. Louis American
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Amsterdam News (New York City)
Carolina Peacemaker (Greensboro)
Wilmington Journal
Call and Post (Cleveland)
Portland Observer
The Skanner (Portland and Seattle)
The New Pittsburgh Courier
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Memphis Tri-State Defender
Tennessee Tribune (Nashville)
Dallas Examiner
Houston Forward Times
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Norfolk Journal and Guide
Richmond Free Press
The Virgin Islands Daily News
Seattle Medium
The Skanner (Portland and Seattle)
Milwaukee Community Journal
Black Enterprise
Black World/Negro Digest
Ebony/Jet
Ebony (Archives)
Essence
Jet (Archives)
Oprah Magazine
Crisis
Journal of African American History (formerly the Journal of Negro History)
Opportunity
Black Quotidian: Everyday History in African American Newspapers
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