- Baltimore Afro-American
Infobox Newspaper
name = The Afro-American
type = weekly
owners =
format = tabloid
foundation =1892
headquarters = 2519 North Charles Street
Baltimore,Maryland 21218
USA
editor = George E. Curry
publisher = John J. Oliver Jr.
website = [http://beta.afro.com/ beta.afro.com]The "Baltimore Afro-American", commonly known as "The AFRO", is a weekly newspaper published in
Baltimore, Maryland . It is the flagship newspaper of the Afro-American chain and the longest runningAfrican American , family-owned newspaper in theUnited States . [cite web|title = Baltimore City Newspapers|url=http://www.library.jhu.edu/researchhelp/baltimore/newspapers.html| publisher = Johns Hopkins University Library| accessdate = 2008-04-03] [cite web| title = About Us| url=http://beta.afro.com/Contact/AboutUs/tabid/442/Default.aspx| accessdate = 2008-04-03] [cite book| last = Farrar| first = Hayward| title = The Baltimore Afro-American: 1892-1950| publisher = Greenwood Press| date = 5/30/1998| pages = 240| url = http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/GM0517.aspx| isbn = 0-313-30517-X]History
The newspaper was founded in 1892 by a former slave, John H. Murphy, Jr. Murphy merged his church publication, "The Sunday School Helper" with two other church publications, "The Ledger" and "The Afro-Anerican". The publication began to rise in prominence when, in 1922,
Carl Murphy took control and served as its editor for 45 years. There have been as many as 13 editions of the newspaper in major cities across the country; today there are just two. One in Baltimore, the other in Washington, D.C. [cite journal|date=Summer, 2008|title=Mining the "Afro-American" Archives|publisher=Johns Hopkins University|location=Baltimore|accessdate=2008-06-18]References
External links
* [http://beta.afro.com/] Afro.com
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