Category : The Word – Media

Robert Lee Vann, newspaper publisher, politician, government official, and civil rights leader, was born on August 27, 1879, in Ahoskie, North Carolina.  He graduated as...

The Chicago Defender was founded in 1905 by Robert Sengstacke Abbott.  Abbott published the first issue, a run of 300 copies, on May 6, 1905. ...

The Pittsburgh Courier was established in 1907 by Edwin Harleston, an aspiring writer and security guard at the H.J. Heinz food packing plant.  The Courier...

Angelina Weld Grimké, (born Feb. 27, 1880, Boston, Mass., U.S.—died June 10, 1958, New York, N.Y.), African-American poet and playwright, an important forerunner of the...

George Samuel Schuyler, a conservative columnist, was born in Providence, Rhode Island on February 25, 1895, to George Francis and Eliza Jane Schuyler. Upon his...

Poet, lyricist, short story writer, and playwright Georgia Douglas Johnson was born to George and Laura Douglas Camp in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 10, 1877. ...

The Messenger, an independent magazine, was founded by labor activist A. Philip Randolph and economist Chandler Owen in 1917 with the help of the Socialist...

Hubert Henry Harrison, author, lecturer, editor, and labor leader was born in Concordia, St. Croix, Danish West Indies (now United States Virgin Islands) on April...

Chandler Owen, writer, editor, and founder of the radical journal the Messenger, with A. Philip Randolph, was born on April 5, 1889, in Warrenton, North...