The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords (1999)
3.7 of 5 from 45 ratings
1h 26min
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- Synopsis:
- The history of black newspapers in America...The black press is still important (maybe more-so than ever before) and is only as strong as our support of it is - a friend of mine once said to me. In 1827, a group of black writers and journalists in New York who were tired of the way black people and issues of race were depicted in the press created America’s first black-owned and operated newspaper, Freedom’s Journal. Over the next 150 years, dozens of similar newspapers appeared across America, giving African Americans a voice they never had in the mainstream news media, like The Chicago Defender, The Pittsburgh Courier, and many more that would follow.
- Actors:
- George Barbour, Timuel Black, Frank Bolden, Wallace Burney, Earl Calloway, Chester Commodore, Evelyn Cunningham, Phyllis Garland, Dora Harris Glasco, Walter Gordon, James Grossman, Charles Teenie Harris, Vera Jackson, Vernon Jarrett, Robert Lavelle, Edna Chappell McKenzie, Christopher Reed, Jane Rhodes, Edward Abie Robinson, Patrick Washburn
- Directors:
- Stanley Nelson
- Narrated By:
- Joe Morton
- Writers:
- Jill Nelson, Stanley Nelson
- Genres:
- Documentary, Special Interest
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