Baltimore Afro-American (AFRO)

CTL-E-0647 · Publication · other · 1892-present

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Baltimore weekly founded 1892; the longest-running African-American family-owned newspaper in the US, still led by founder John H. Murphy Sr.'s descendants.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MEDIA-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MEDIA-001:MED-013; source research type(s): Publication.

Sources

Wikipedia (Baltimore Afro-American); nnpa.org, 2024
Encyclopedia.com; African American Registry
African American Registry; University of Edinburgh HCA Librarian blog, 2019
nnpa.org, 2024 ("Standing on 132 years of history") (primary source)

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