Oldest African-American newspaper notes 125th anniversary
When Christopher J. Perry launched The Philadelphia Tribune, he faced a readership problem that makes today’s newspaper industry woes seem trivial.
The Tribune was founded in 1884, when the city had only 108,000 African Americans, few of them literate.
Blacks “were forbidden to learn to read and write,” said Robert W. Bogle, current publisher of the nation’s [...]
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