Newspaper Databases

Full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press of the United States.

Includes The Christian Recorder, Weekly Advocate/The Colored American, Frederick Douglass' Paper, Freedom's Journal, The National Era, The North Star, Provincial Freeman, The Freedmen's Record, and The Negro Business League Herald.

The full text of over 200 U.S. newspapers published by or for African Americans

Resources related to Black Studies, including scholarly journals, essays by top scholars, historic indexes, and historical black newspapers. Coverage from 1900 to current.

Full-text of Atlanta's oldest Black newspaper. Digitized with full article images. Coverage from 1931 to 2003.

Full-text of one of the most influential U.S. African-American newspapers based in Chicago. It historically covered segregation, Jim Crow violence, the Great Migration, and civil rights. Digitized with full article images. Coverage from 1909 to 1975.

Full-text of this leading Black owned historical Harlem newspaper. It published columns by notable people including W. E. B. Du Bois and Malcolm X. It also covered the historically important Harlem Renaissance. Digitized with full article images. Coverage from 1922 to 1993.