Before Black Twitter: How the Early Black Press Shaped American Discourse Around Race and Religion
…papers themselves, and the people who made them, that inspired me to write a book about the early black press. The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation Benjamin P. Fagan University of Georgia Press June 2016 Initially, though, this was going to be a book about the ways in which black newspapers theorized and enacted American national identity. But as I read and reread the pages of Freedom’s Journal, the Colored American, the North Star, the Provi…
Read More