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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, , Frank Bolden, Wallace Burney, Earl Calloway, Chester Commodore, Evelyn Cunningham, , Dora Harris Glasco, Walter Gordon, James Grossman, Charles Teenie Harris, Vera Jackson, Vernon Jarrett, Robert Lavelle, Edna Chappell McKenzie, , Jane Rhodes, Edward Abie Robinson, Patrick Washburn
Directors:
Narrated By:
Joe Morton
Writers:
Jill Nelson, Stanley Nelson
Genres:
Documentary, Special Interest
Awards:

1999 Sundance Film Festival Freedom of Expression Award

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Release Date:
Not released
Run Time:
86 minutes

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