Tri-State Defender

Tri-State Defender
TypeWeekly newspaper
Owner(s)Tri-State Defender Board of Directors.
PublisherKaranja A. Ajanaku
EditorKaranja A. Ajanaku
FoundedNovember 3, 1951 (1951-11-03)
HeadquartersMemphis, Tennessee 38103, U.S.
Circulation4,373 weekly (as of 2011)[1]
Websitetsdmemphis.com

The Tri-State Defender is a weekly African-American newspaper serving Memphis, Tennessee, and the nearby areas of Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee.[2] It bills itself as "The Mid-South's Best Alternative Newspaper". The Defender was founded in 1951 by John H. Sengstacke, owner of the Chicago Defender. In 2013, the paper was locally purchased from Real Times Media by the Tri-State Defender Board of Directors

  1. ^ "Annual Audit Report, June 2011". Larkspur, Calif.: Verified Audit Circulation. Retrieved April 30, 2012.
  2. ^ Danky, James Philip; Hady, Maureen E. (1998). African-American newspapers and periodicals : a national bibliography. Mark Graham. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press. p. 568. ISBN 978-0-674-00788-8.