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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.[1]

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

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

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City Title Beginning End Frequency Call numbers Remarks
Bowling Green The Eagle Eye 1903[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 Informer 1904[2] 1937[2]
Covington The Lincoln-Grant Herald 1913[2] ?[2]
Covington Suspension Press 1982[7] ?[7] Biweekly (irregular)[7]
Danville / Lexington Torchlight / Torch Light 1902[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 Tribune 1878[5] 1892[5]
Elizabethtown Christian Pilot 1880s[5] 1880s[5]
Frankfort The Blue Grass Bugle / Bluegrass Bugle 1898?[8] 1915[2] Weekly[8]
Frankfort Frankfort Clarion ?[2] ?[2]
Frankfort The Kentucky Club Woman 1900s[2]
Frankfort Masonic Herald 1914[2] 1915[2]
Frankfort The Star Weekly 1914[2] ?[2] Weekly
Frankfort Frankfort Tribune ?[2] ?[2] Weekly[5]
Henderson Gleaner 1890s Weekly[9]
Henderson Kentucky Missionary Visitor ?[2] 1915[2]
Hopkinsville Baptist Monitor 1880s[2]
Hopkinsville Hopkinsville Contender 1919[10] 1920[10]
Hopkinsville Hopkinsville Globe Journal / Hopkinsville Globe 1932[10] or 1936[2] 1943[2] or 1941[10] Weekly[10]
Hopkinsville Indicator 1892[10] ? Weekly[11]
  • Founded by mortician E.W. Glass.[10]
  • Circulation of 1,800 in 1896.[11]
Hopkinsville The Little Courant 1919[10] 1922[10]
  • Founded and published by James T. Whitney Jr.[10]
Hopkinsville Major / The Major 1896[10] or 1897[2] 1904[2]
Hopkinsville Morning News 1903[2] 1913[10] Daily[10]
Hopkinsville The New Age 1920s[10]
  • Founded by principal M.J. Sleet.[10]
Hopkinsville Rising Sun 1900s 1900s
  • Sold to Hopkinsville Globe.[1]
Hopkinsville Saturday News 1913[10] or 1919[2] 1922[2] Weekly[10]
Lebanon Freeman ? 1912[5]
Lexington Advance-Courier 1885[2] 1886[2] Weekly[12]
Lexington American Citizen 1874[13] 1800s[13] Weekly[13]
  • NKAA Entry
  • Edited by Jordan C. Jackson, Jr. and Henry Scroggins.[2]
Lexington Bluegrass Chronicle 1978[2] 1980[2] or 1981[14]
Lexington Blue Grass New Era 1890s ? Twice weekly[11]
Lexington Christian Trumpet 1921[2] ?[2]
  • NKAA Entry
  • Published by the Convention of the Colored Christian Churches of Kentucky.[2]
Lexington The Christian Soldier 1872[2] ?[2]
  • NKAA Entry
  • Edited by R. E. Pearson and printed by Daniel I. Reid.[2]
Lexington The Lexington Chronicle 1967[15] ?[15]
Lexington The Colored Citizen 1913[16] ?[16] Daily[16]
Lexington Colored Representative 1871[17] 1870s[17] Weekly[17]
  • Published by G.B. Thomas.[17]
Lexington Community Voice 1987[18] 2001[2] Weekly[18]
Lexington Fair Play 1880s[5] 1880s[5]
Lexington Inter-State County News 1935[2] 1940[2]
Lexington Key Newsjournal 2004[2] current
Lexington Masonic and Odd Fellows' Journal 1876[2] ?[2]
Lexington The Lexington Standard 1892[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 News 1912[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] current Weekly[21]
Louisville The Bulletin 1879[22] 1885[2] Weekly[22]
Louisville The Champion 1890[2] 1893[2]
Louisville Christian Index 1873[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 Columbian 1899[2] 1917[2]
  • NKAA Entry
  • Edited by L. A. Morris, W. H. Parker, Percy R. Peters, and Jesse B. Colbert.[2]
Louisville Columbian Herald 1913[2] 1927[2]
Louisville The Herald Tribune 1937[2]
  • NKAA Entry
  • Edited by Charles E. Tucker, William Warley, and Huron Clark.[2]
Louisville Kentuckian 1870s[2]
Louisville Kentucky Standard 1898[2] 1912[2]
Louisville The Louisville Defender 1933[23] current Weekly[23]
Louisville Louisville Leader 1917[2] 1953[2]
Louisville Louisville News 1913[2] 1947[2]
Louisville New South 1894[2] 1897[2]
Louisville The Ohio Falls Express 1878[24] or 1879[25] 1904[24] Weekly[24]
Louisville Tri-weekly Informer 1939[2] 1939[5]
  • NKAA Entry
  • Owned and edited by Lucille E. St. Clair, Alice Dunnigan, and M. S. Kimbley.[2]
Louisville The Louisville Weekly Planet 1872[26] 1875[2] Weekly[26]
Louisville Zion's Banner ?[2] ?[2]
Mt. Sterling The Reporter 1904[2] 1915[2]
Owensboro / Louisville Kentucky Reporter 1899[2] 1953[2] Weekly[27]
Owensboro Sunday Unionist 1890s Weekly (on Sundays)[11]
Paducah Baptist Herald 1873[2] 1878[2] or 1879[5]
Paducah The Kentucky Voice 1988[2] 2010s Monthly[28]
Paducah Light House / The Light House 1908[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 Sentinel 1909[30] 1912[5]
Richmond Hill Topper 1934 ?
Winchester National Chronicle 1891[2] 1915[2]

See also

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Works cited

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References

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  1. ^ a b Dunnigan, Alice (2015). Alone Atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press. University of Georgia Press. pp. 68, 72. ISBN 9780820347981.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz ca cb cc cd ce cf cg ch ci cj ck cl cm cn co cp cq cr cs ct cu cv cw cx cy cz da db dc dd de df dg dh di dj dk dl dm dn do dp dq dr ds dt du dv dw dx dy dz ea "Kentucky African American Newspapers". Notable Kentucky African Americans Database. University of Kentucky. 2018-07-27. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
  3. ^ "Sesh Publications". The Cincinnati Herald. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
  4. ^ a b c Danky & Hady 1998, p. 203, ¶ 2111.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Caldemeyer, Dana (2015). "African American Newspapers". In Smith, Gerald L.; McDaniel, Karen Cotton; Hardin, John A. (eds.). The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 9–10. ISBN 9780813160665.
  6. ^ a b c "About The Edmonson star. [volume] (Brownsville, Ky.) 1916-19??". Chronicling America. Library of Congress.
  7. ^ a b c Danky & Hady 1998, p. 550, ¶ 5741.
  8. ^ a b Danky & Hady 1998, p. 110, ¶ 1135.
  9. ^ Afro-American Encyclopedia: Or, the Thoughts, Doings, and Sayings of the Race. Haley & Florida. 1895. p. 132.
  10. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Parrino, Joe (2006-02-25). "'Little but loud'". Kentucky New Era. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
  11. ^ a b c d "Afro-American". Geo. P. Rowell and Co.'s American Newspaper Directory. Geo. P. Rowell & Company. 1896.
  12. ^ The Edwin Alden Co's American Newspaper Catalogue, Including Lists of All Newspapers and Magazines Published in the United States and the Canadas. Vol. 10. Edwin Alden & Company. 1886. p. 122.
  13. ^ a b c "About The American citizen. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 1874-18??". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
  14. ^ "About Bluegrass chronicle. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 1978-1981". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
  15. ^ a b "About The Lexington chronicle. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 1967-19??". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
  16. ^ a b c "About The colored citizen. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 1913-19??". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
  17. ^ a b c d "About Colored representative. [online resource] (Lexington, Ky.) 1871-187?". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
  18. ^ a b c "About Community voice. (Lexington, Ky.) 1987-current". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
  19. ^ a b c Danky & Hady 1998, p. 336, ¶ 3519.
  20. ^ "Afro-American Mission Herald". Kentucky Digital Newspaper Program Exhibits. University of Kentucky Libraries. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
  21. ^ a b c "About American Baptist. (Louisville, Ky.) 1879-19??". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
  22. ^ a b Danky & Hady 1998, p. 122, ¶ 1266.
  23. ^ a b Danky & Hady 1998, p. 347, ¶ 3639.
  24. ^ a b c Danky & Hady 1998, p. 439, ¶ 4579.
  25. ^ Penn 1891, p. 318.
  26. ^ a b c "About The Louisville weekly planet. (Louisville, Ky.) 1872-187?". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
  27. ^ "About Kentucky reporter. (Owensboro, Ky.) 1???-19?". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
  28. ^ "About Us". Kentucky Voice. Archived from the original on 2013-12-27.
  29. ^ a b c Danky & Hady 1998, p. 339, ¶ 3560.
  30. ^ a b 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.
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