Afro-American Newspaper

Afro-American Newspaper

The "Afro-American Newspaper" is one of the largest African American Newspapers in the United States servicing the Baltimore-D.C. metro area. Its mission is to educate and empower the African American community and promote civil rights. The paper was founded in 1892 by former slave, John H. Murphy Sr. when he merged his church publication "The Sunday School Helper" with two similar publications in Baltimore. Over the years the Newspaper has joined with groups like the NAACP to help promote social change including de-segregation of public schools in the 1950's. The Afro-American continues to be a family run newspaper and is currently being run by the third generation of Murphy's since its inception. The current Publisher of the Afro-American Newspaper Company is John "Jake" Oliver.

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