Reopening the history of one local Black newspaper
(bizjournals.com) A $476,000 grant will allow one of the nation’s oldest newspapers for African-American readers to open its 115-year-old archives to the public and create an internship focused on handling and processing historical materials.
The archives of the Afro-American Newspapers, a Baltimore-based weekly paper, contains the work of notable black writers and journalists, including Langston Hughes, William Worthy and J. Saunder Redding.
The paper will use the grant, awarded Monday by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to create searchable guides of its collections and materials. (more…)
