List of African-American newspapers in Ohio

This is a list of African-American newspapers that have been published in the state of Ohio.

An 1844 issue of the Palladium of Liberty.

The history of African-American publishing in Ohio is longer than in many Midwestern states, beginning well before the Civil War. In 1843, the Palladium of Liberty became Ohio's first African-American newspaper.[1] It was followed by the Aliened American in Cleveland in the 1850s, and by the Cincinnati The Colored Citizen in 1863, which was one of the few African-American newspapers published during the Civil War.[1]

Notable African-American newspapers currently published in Ohio include the Akron Reporter, The Cincinnati Herald, the Cleveland Call and Post, The Toledo Journal, and the Youngstown Buckeye Review.

Newspapers

City	Title	Beginning	End	Frequency	Call numbers	Remarks
Akron	The Reporter	1969[2]	current	Weekly[2]	LCCN sn84024228 OCLC 11304626	Official site Issues online
Cincinnati	The Afro-American	1882[3]	?[3]	Weekly[3]		One issue available online Extant through at least 1885.[3]
Cincinnati	American Catholic Tribune	1884[4] or 1885[5]	1890s[5]	Irregular[5]	LCCN sn90057162, sn97016092 OCLC 10874710, 37188414	"[T]he only newspaper in the country for black Catholics".[4] Published in Detroit for portions of 1893 and 1894.[5]
Cincinnati	Colored Patriot	1883?[6]	?[6]	Weekly[6]	LCCN sn84028752 OCLC 11416184	Billed as "the only Colored Republican paper published or printed in Cincinnati."[6]
Cincinnati	The Cincinnati Crusader	1981[7]	?[7]	Monthly newspaper[7]	OCLC 16752125	Extant through at least 1987.[7]
Cincinnati	The Cincinnati Herald	1955[8]	current	Weekly[8]	LCCN sn84024231 OCLC 11309100	Official site
Cincinnati	The Colored Citizen	1863[9]	1869[9] or 1873[4]	Weekly[9]	LCCN sn83027095 OCLC 10005063	One issue available online Staff included Peter H. Clark.[10]
Cincinnati	The Ohio Enterprise	1902[11]	1906[11]	Weekly[11]	OCLC 31314138	Founded by Wendell Dabney.[12]
Cincinnati	Cincinnati Union	1907[13]	1952[13]	Weekly[13]	LCCN sn84024489 OCLC 10206796	Founded by Wendell Dabney.[12]
Cincinnati	News Recorder	1893[12]
Cincinnati	Voice of the People	1896[12]
Cleveland	Cleveland Advocate / Advocate (1915–1918)[14]	1914[14]	1924[15]	Weekly[14]	LCCN sn83035391 OCLC 9755074, 2611292	Published by Ormond Forte, known as the "dean of Cleveland Negro newspapermen".[16]
Cleveland	Aliened American	1853[17]	1854[17] or 1856[1]	Weekly[17]	LCCN sn83035397 OCLC 9777824, 2622997
Cleveland	Call and Post	1919[18]	current	Weekly[18]	Main (Cleveland) edition: ISSN 0045-4036 LCCN sn85042478 OCLC 9793218 Columbus edition: LCCN sn84024225 OCLC 11283002 Cincinnati edition: LCCN sn88077398 OCLC 17937562	Official site Columbus edition published from 1962.[19] Cincinnati edition published from 1967.[20]
Cleveland	Cleveland Community News / The Greater Cleveland Community News	1968[21]		Weekly[21]		Official site
Cleveland	The Cleveland Gazette	1883[22]	1945[22]	Weekly[22]	LCCN sn83035388 OCLC 9754948, 9754970, 9754999	Founded by Harry Clay Smith.[12] Became the longest-publishing African American weekly in the country.[23]
Cleveland	The Cleveland Globe[24]	1884[12]	1887[12]			Founded by Richard A. Jones.[12]
Cleveland	The Cleveland Guide	1929[25]	?[25]	Weekly[25]		Extant through at least 1937.[25]
Cleveland	Cleveland Herald	1919?[26]	?[26]	Weekly[26]		Extant through at least 1936.[26]
Cleveland	Inner-City Voice	1970[27]	?[27]	Monthly[27]	LCCN sn93023822 OCLC 28695123
Cleveland	The Cleveland Journal	1903[28]	1913[28] or 1912[29]	Weekly[28]	LCCN sn83035389 OCLC 9755018	Circulation of 2500.[29]
Cleveland	The Cleveland Metro	1959?[30]	?[30]	Weekly[30]		Extant through at least 1986.[30]
Cleveland	Eastside Daily News	1980[31]	current	Three times a week[31]		Official site
Cleveland	The Real Deal	1991[32]	current	Monthly newspaper[32]		Official site
Cleveland	Voice of the People	1895[12]
Columbus	Columbus Advocate	1933[33]	?[33]	Weekly[33]	LCCN sn88077643 OCLC 18385228	Extant through at least 1940.[33]
Columbus	The Challenge	1942[34]	?[34]	Unknown[34]
Columbus	The Columbus Challenger	1963[35]	1975[35]	Monthly (irregular) newspaper[35]	LCCN sn84024220, sn84024980 OCLC 11271910, 11441015
Columbus	The Free American	1887[4]	1888[36]	Weekly[36]	LCCN sn85042465 OCLC 2611051, 12497479	Columbus' first African-American newspaper since the Palladium of Liberty.[37]
Columbus	The Lamp	1994[38]		Monthly newspaper[38]	OCLC 31873854
Columbus	The Columbus Minority Communicator	1996?[39]	[39]	Weekly[39]	OCLC 35719248	Official site
Columbus	Onyx / Columbus Onyx News	1971[40]	1978?[40]	Weekly[40]	LCCN sn88077700, sn88077701, sn88077699 OCLC 18385720, 18385976, 18385710
Columbus	Palladium of Liberty	1843[41]	1844[41]	Weekly[41]	LCCN sn84024997 OCLC 11424731	First known African-American newspaper in Ohio.
Columbus	The Columbus Post	1995[42]	current	Weekly		Founded in 1995 by Amos Lynch after leaving the Call and Post.[43]
Columbus	The Columbus Recorder	1923[42]	?[42]	Monthly newspaper[42]	LCCN sn88077650 OCLC 18385332
Columbus	The Ohio Sentinel	1949[44] [43]	1963[44]	Weekly[44]	LCCN sn84024219 OCLC 11262867
Columbus	Columbus Standard	1889[45] or 1901[46]	1901[45]	Weekly[45]	LCCN sn84025831, 2011254355 OCLC 10372298, 2639468, 747721376	Published by P.W. Chavers.[45]
Columbus	Ohio State Monitor	1918[47]	1922[47]	Weekly[47]	LCCN sn88077669 OCLC 18385530
Columbus	The Ohio State News	1935[48]	1952[48]	Weekly[48]	LCCN sn84024236 OCLC 11323208, 2714273
Columbus	The Columbus Voice	1928[49]	1933?[49]	Weekly[49]	LCCN sn88077652 OCLC 18385356	Published by Florence W. Oakfield.[49]
Columbus	Whip-Poor-Will	1866[50]	1866[50]	Monthly[50]	LCCN sn88077684 OCLC 18385623
Dayton	Dayton / Black Press	1972?[51]	?[51]	Weekly[51]	LCCN sn89080115 OCLC 25568374	Extant through at least 1980.[51]
Dayton	Dayton Tattler	1890[52]	1891[52]	Weekly[52]	LCCN sn88077203 OCLC 17538409	Founded by Paul Laurence Dunbar.[12] Printed initially in the Wright Brothers print shop.[12]
Dayton	The Daily Bulletin: Combined with The Ohio Express	1941[53]	?[53]	Daily (except Sunday)[53]	OCLC 2696651	Extant through at least 1946.[53]
Dayton	Dayton Communicator	1994?[54]		Weekly[54]	OCLC 32480684
Dayton	The Dayton Defender / New Dayton Defender	1986?[55]	current	Biweekly[55]	LCCN sn90068203 OCLC 21191588	Now part of Sesh Communications, which also publishes the Cincinnati Herald.[56]
Dayton	The Dayton Forum	1913[57]	1949[57]	Biweekly[57]	LCCN sn84024234 OCLC 11323316
Dayton	New Dayton Express	1964[58]	1971[58]	Weekly[58]	LCCN sn84024237, sn84024238 OCLC 11321996, 2696826, 11322054
Dayton	The Ohio Daily Express	1943?[59]	1955[59]	Daily (except Sunday)[59]	LCCN sn88077225 OCLC 17538515
Dayton	The Soul/phisticator	1986?[60]	?[60]	Unknown[60]		Associated with the WDAO AM radio station.[60]
East Cleveland	East Cleveland Citizen	1970[61]	?[61]	Unknown[61]	LCCN sn83035685 OCLC 10249181
Hamilton	Butler County American	1940[62]	1969[62]	Weekly[62]	LCCN sn89075005 OCLC 19000390	Succeeded by the Fort Hamilton American.[63]
Lima	Lima Post	1953[64]	1956[64]	Weekly[64]	LCCN sn90068005 OCLC 10126338	Billed as “Lima’s Only Negro Newspaper.”[64]
Toledo	The Observer	1918?[65]	?[65]	Weekly[65]
Toledo	Toledo Bronze Raven	1949[66] or 1953[67]	1976[67]	Weekly[66]	LCCN sn84024175 OCLC 2564711
Toledo	The Toledo Journal	1975[68]	current	Weekly[68]	LCCN sn90068216 OCLC 19061805	Official site
Toledo	The Toledo Script	1943[69]	1949[69]	Weekly[69]	LCCN sn84024222 OCLC 11276680
Toledo	The Toledo Sepia City Press	1948[70]	?[70]	Weekly[70]	LCCN sn24224 OCLC 11276587	Extant through at least 1950.[70]
Urbana	The Informer	1897[71]	1900s[71]	Monthly newspaper[71]	LCCN sn87076946 OCLC 17246766	Founded by Elmer W.B. Curry of the Curry Institute.[12] Extant through at least 1925.[71]
Xenia	Ohio Standard and Observer	1897[72]	1903[72]	Weekly[72]	LCCN sn84025822 OCLC 2577080
Xenia	Xenia Sentinel	1911[73]	?[73]	Weekly[73]	LCCN sn91069721 OCLC 23978734
Youngstown	The Buckeye Review	1937[74]	current	Weekly[74]	ISSN 0045-3285 LCCN sn78001573 OCLC 3989242	Official site
Youngstown	Mahoning Valley Challenger	1967[75]	1974[75]	Weekly[75]	LCCN sn88078359 OCLC 1769494

See also

• List of African-American newspapers and media outlets
• List of African-American newspapers in Indiana
• List of African-American newspapers in Michigan
• List of African-American newspapers in Pennsylvania
• List of African-American newspapers in West Virginia
• List of newspapers in Ohio

Works cited

• Danky, James Philip; Hady, Maureen E., eds. (1998). African-American newspapers and periodicals : a national bibliography. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674007888.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Jeffres, Leo W. (1982). "Grassroots Journalism in the City: Cleveland's Neighborhood Newspapers" (PDF). Retrieved 2020-01-05.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Penn, Irvine Garland (1891). The Afro-American Press and Its Editors. Willey & Company.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Pride, Armistead Scott; Wilson, Clint C. (1997). A History of the Black Press. Howard University Press. ISBN 9780882581927.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Ross, Felecia G. Jones (1996). "Democracy's Textbook: A History of the Black Press in Ohio, 1865-1985". In Suggs, Henry Lewis (ed.). The Black Press in the Middle West, 1865-1985. Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313255793.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

References

1. Ross 1996, p. 244.
2. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 489, ¶ 5105.
3. "The Afro-American". The African-American Experience in Ohio 1850-1920. Ohio Historical Society. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
4. Ross 1996, p. 246.
5. "About American Catholic tribune. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1885-189?". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
6. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 163, ¶ 1691.
7. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 153, ¶ 1592.
8. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 153, ¶ 1593.
9. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 162, ¶ 1686.
10. Ross 1996, p. 245.
11. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 439, ¶ 4578.
12. Ross 1996, p. 247.
13. "About The Union. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1907-1952". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
14. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 157, ¶ 1629.
15. "Cleveland Advocate". Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Case Western Reserve University. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
16. "Forte, Ormond Adolphus". Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Case Western Reserve University. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
17. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 33, ¶ 333.
18. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 130, ¶ 1347.
19. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 130, ¶ 1348.
20. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 130, ¶ 1349.
21. Jeffres 1982, p. 69.
22. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 157, ¶ 1632.
23. "Cleveland Gazette". Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Case Western Reserve University. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
24. Penn 1891, p. 298.
25. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 158, ¶ 1633.
26. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 158, ¶ 1634.
27. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 298, ¶ 3142.
28. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 158, ¶ 1635.
29. Ross 1996, p. 256.
30. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 158, ¶ 1636.
31. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 204, ¶ 2126.
32. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 485, ¶ 5060.
33. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 164, ¶ 1704.
34. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 142, ¶ 1480.
35. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 164, ¶ 1706.
36. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 236, ¶ 2478.
37. Ross 1996, p. 246-247.
38. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 331, ¶ 3467.
39. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 164, ¶ 1708.
40. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 164, ¶ 1709.
41. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 451, ¶ 4700.
42. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 165, ¶ 1711.
43. "Amos Lynch, longtime newspaperman and black leader, dies at 90 - News - The Columbus Dispatch - Columbus, OH". Retrieved 2020-02-06. Lynch helped start three different Columbus newspapers: the Ohio Sentinel in 1949; the Call and Post, a local edition of a popular black paper in Cleveland, in 1962; and the Columbus Post in 1995.
44. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 440, ¶ 4582.
45. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 165, ¶ 1712.
46. Ross 1996, p. 248.
47. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 440, ¶ 4584.
48. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 440, ¶ 4585.
49. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 165, ¶ 1714.
50. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 613, ¶ 6412.
51. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 187, ¶ 1943.
52. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 187, ¶ 1948.
53. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 183, ¶ 1907.
54. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 187, ¶ 1944.
55. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 187, ¶ 1945.
56. "Media Kit". Sesh Communications. Retrieved 2020-01-05. Our three weekly newspapers are the award-winning Cincinnati Herald (est. 1955), The Northern Kentucky Herald, and The Dayton Defender.
57. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 187, ¶ 1946.
58. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 407, ¶ 4239.
59. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 439, ¶ 4577.
60. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 523, ¶ 5463.
61. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 203, ¶ 2117.
62. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 126, ¶ 1309.
63. "About Butler County American. (Hamilton, Ohio) 1940-1969". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
64. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 340, ¶ 3568.
65. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 437, ¶ 4554.
66. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 562, ¶ 5870.
67. "About Toledo bronze raven. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1953-1976". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
68. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 562, ¶ 5871.
69. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 562, ¶ 5872.
70. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 562, ¶ 5873.
71. "About The Informer. (Urbana, Ohio) 1897-19??". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
72. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 440, ¶ 4583.
73. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 623, ¶ 6515.
74. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 120, ¶ 1239.
75. "About Mahoning Valley challenger. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1967-1974". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-05.

External links

• Ohio Historical Society list