List of African-American newspapers in Kentucky

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March 22, 1902 issue of the Kentucky Reporter of Owensville. Kentucky Reporter 1902-03-22.jpg
March 22, 1902 issue of the Kentucky Reporter of Owensville.
Alice Allison Dunnigan, pioneering journalist whose newspaper career began at the Rising Sun and Globe Journal in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Alice Dunnigan (13270022973).jpg
Alice Allison Dunnigan, pioneering journalist whose newspaper career began at the Rising Sun and Globe Journal in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

This is a list of African-American newspapers that have been published in Kentucky. It includes both current and historical newspapers.

Contents

The first known African-American newspapers to serve Kentucky were the Colored Citizen , which was briefly published in Louisville in 1866, and the Colored Kentuckian , launched in 1867. [2]

African-American newspapers serving Kentucky today include the Louisville Defender , the Key Newsjournal of Lexington, and the Northern Kentucky Herald , published by Sesh Publications in Cincinnati, Ohio. [3]

Newspapers

CityTitleBeginningEndFrequencyCall numbersRemarks
Bowling Green The Eagle Eye1903 [4] ? [4] Weekly [4]
  • LCCN   sn87060407
  • OCLC   17275340
Bowling Green Liberty?1912 [5]
Bowling Green Bowling Green Watchman 1887 [2] 1892 [2]
  • NKAA Entry
  • Founded and edited by Cyrus R. McDowell.
Brownsville Edmonson Star News / Edmonson County Star / Edmonson Star [6] 1916 [6] 1917? [2] Weekly [6]
Cadiz Cadiz Informer1904 [2] 1937 [2]
Covington The Lincoln-Grant Herald1913 [2] ? [2]
Covington Suspension Press1982 [7] ? [7] Biweekly (irregular) [7]
Danville / Lexington Torchlight / Torch Light1902 [5] or 1903 [2] 1929 [2] or 1932 [5]
  • NKAA Entry
  • Owned and edited by John Edmund Wood. [2]
  • Moved to Lexington in early 1910s. [5]
Danville Tribune1878 [5] 1892 [5]
Elizabethtown Christian Pilot1880s [5] 1880s [5]
Frankfort The Blue Grass Bugle / Bluegrass Bugle1898? [8] 1915 [2] Weekly [8]
Frankfort Frankfort Clarion? [2] ? [2]
Frankfort The Kentucky Club Woman1900s [2]
Frankfort Masonic Herald1914 [2] 1915 [2]
Frankfort The Star Weekly1914 [2] ? [2] Weekly
Frankfort Frankfort Tribune? [2] ? [2] Weekly [5]
Henderson Gleaner1890sWeekly [9]
Henderson Kentucky Missionary Visitor? [2] 1915 [2]
Hopkinsville Baptist Monitor1880s [2]
Hopkinsville Hopkinsville Contender1919 [10] 1920 [10]
Hopkinsville Hopkinsville Globe Journal / Hopkinsville Globe1932 [10] or 1936 [2] 1943 [2] or 1941 [10] Weekly [10]
Hopkinsville Indicator1892 [10] ?Weekly [11]
  • Founded by mortician E.W. Glass. [10]
  • Circulation of 1,800 in 1896. [11]
Hopkinsville The Little Courant1919 [10] 1922 [10]
  • Founded and published by James T. Whitney Jr. [10]
Hopkinsville Major / The Major1896 [10] or 1897 [2] 1904 [2]
Hopkinsville Morning News1903 [2] 1913 [10] Daily [10]
Hopkinsville The New Age1920s [10]
  • Founded by principal M.J. Sleet. [10]
Hopkinsville Rising Sun1900s1900s
  • Sold to Hopkinsville Globe. [1]
Hopkinsville Saturday News1913 [10] or 1919 [2] 1922 [2] Weekly [10]
Lebanon Freeman?1912 [5]
Lexington Advance-Courier1885 [2] 1886 [2] Weekly [12]
Lexington American Citizen1874 [13] 1800s [13] Weekly [13]
  • NKAA Entry
  • Edited by Jordan C. Jackson, Jr. and Henry Scroggins. [2]
Lexington Bluegrass Chronicle1978 [2] 1980 [2] or 1981 [14]
Lexington Blue Grass New Era1890s?Twice weekly [11]
Lexington Christian Trumpet1921 [2] ? [2]
  • NKAA Entry
  • Published by the Convention of the Colored Christian Churches of Kentucky. [2]
Lexington The Christian Soldier1872 [2] ? [2]
  • NKAA Entry
  • Edited by R. E. Pearson and printed by Daniel I. Reid. [2]
Lexington The Lexington Chronicle1967 [15] ? [15]
Lexington The Colored Citizen1913 [16] ? [16] Daily [16]
Lexington Colored Representative1871 [17] 1870s [17] Weekly [17]
  • Published by G.B. Thomas. [17]
Lexington Community Voice1987 [18] 2001 [2] Weekly [18]
Lexington Fair Play1880s [5] 1880s [5]
Lexington Inter-State County News1935 [2] 1940 [2]
Lexington Key Newsjournal2004 [2] current
Lexington Masonic and Odd Fellows' Journal1876 [2] ? [2]
Lexington The Lexington Standard1892 [19] 1912 [19] Weekly [19]
  • NKAA Entry
  • Editors included R. C. O. Benjamin, William D. Johnson, Daniel I. Reid, Henry P. Slaughter, and Wade H. Carter. [2]
Lexington Lexington Weekly News1912 [2] ? [2]
  • NKAA Entry
  • Published by Edward D. Willis, Daniel I. Reid, and A. W. Davis. [2]
Louisville Afro-American Mission Herald 1897 [2] 1912 [2]
  • Free online archive
  • NKAA Entry
  • "[T]he first paper to advance and nurture the foreign mission agenda of the National Baptist Convention of the United States of America." [20]
Louisville American Baptist / American Baptist News 1878 [2] or 1879 [21] currentWeekly [21]
Louisville The Bulletin1879 [22] 1885 [2] Weekly [22]
Louisville The Champion1890 [2] 1893 [2]
Louisville Christian Index1873 [2] 1882 [2] (Louisville, KY), 1882-1966 (Jackson, TN) [2]
Louisville The Colored Citizen 1866 [2] ? [2]
  • NKAA Entry
  • Edited by Horace Morris, John H. Mason, and Marsh Woodson. Published by the Convention of Colored Men in Kentucky. [2]
Louisville The Colored Kentuckian 1867 [2] ? [2]
  • NKAA Entry
  • Founded and published by Philip H. Murry and J. P. Sampson. [2]
Louisville Louisville Columbian1899 [2] 1917 [2]
  • NKAA Entry
  • Edited by L. A. Morris, W. H. Parker, Percy R. Peters, and Jesse B. Colbert. [2]
Louisville Columbian Herald1913 [2] 1927 [2]
Louisville The Herald Tribune1937 [2]
  • NKAA Entry
  • Edited by Charles E. Tucker, William Warley, and Huron Clark. [2]
Louisville Kentuckian1870s [2]
Louisville Kentucky Standard1898 [2] 1912 [2]
Louisville The Louisville Defender 1933 [23] currentWeekly [23]
Louisville Louisville Leader 1917 [2] 1953 [2]
Louisville Louisville News 1913 [2] 1947 [2]
Louisville New South1894 [2] 1897 [2]
Louisville The Ohio Falls Express 1878 [24] or 1879 [25] 1904 [24] Weekly [24]
Louisville Tri-weekly Informer1939 [2] 1939 [5]
  • NKAA Entry
  • Owned and edited by Lucille E. St. Clair, Alice Dunnigan, and M. S. Kimbley. [2]
Louisville The Louisville Weekly Planet1872 [26] 1875 [2] Weekly [26]
Louisville Zion's Banner? [2] ? [2]
Mt. Sterling The Reporter1904 [2] 1915 [2]
Owensboro / Louisville Kentucky Reporter 1899 [2] 1953 [2] Weekly [27]
Owensboro Sunday Unionist1890sWeekly (on Sundays) [11]
Paducah Baptist Herald1873 [2] 1878 [2] or 1879 [5]
Paducah The Kentucky Voice1988 [2] 2010sMonthly [28]
Paducah Light House / The Light House1908 [2] or 1909? [29] 1937 [2] Weekly [29]
Paducah The Negro Citizen? [2] ? [2]
  • NKAA Entry
  • Owned and published by Pleasant A. Nichols.
Richmond Richmond Sentinel1909 [30] 1912 [5]
Richmond Hill Topper1934?
Winchester National Chronicle1891 [2] 1915 [2]

See also

Works cited

References

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  8. 1 2 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 110, ¶ 1135.
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  22. 1 2 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 122, ¶ 1266.
  23. 1 2 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 347, ¶ 3639.
  24. 1 2 3 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 439, ¶ 4579.
  25. Penn 1891, p. 318.
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  30. 1 2 Powell, Sallie L. (2015). "Gwynn, John Austin". In Smith, Gerald L.; McDaniel, Karen Cotton; Hardin, John A. (eds.). The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia. University Press of Kentucky. p. 121. ISBN   9780813160665.