Baltimore Afro-American

The AFRO American Newspaper Company
TypeWeekly newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
PublisherFrances M. Draper
Managing editorRev. Dorothy S. Boulware
News editorJessica Dortch[1]
Founded13 August 1892
(132 years ago)
 (1892-08-13)
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters
CountryUnited States
ISSN2473-5973
OCLC number7642696
Websiteafro.com

The Baltimore Afro-American, commonly known as The Afro or Afro News, is a weekly African-American newspaper published in Baltimore, Maryland. It is the flagship newspaper of the AFRO-American chain and the longest-running African-American family-owned newspaper in the United States, established in 1892.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Issue of Afro-American Newspaper". November 28, 2015.
  2. ^ "Baltimore City Newspapers". Johns Hopkins University Library. Archived from the original on February 15, 2008. Retrieved April 3, 2008.
  3. ^ Farrar, Hayward (May 30, 1998). The Baltimore AFRO-American: 1892–1950. Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-30517-X. Archived from the original on May 10, 2008. Retrieved April 4, 2008.