List of African American newspapers in Kentucky

This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in Kentucky. It includes both current and historical newspapers.

The first known African American newspapers to serve Kentucky were the Colored Citizen, which was briefly published in Louisville in 1866, and the Colored Kentuckian, launched in 1867.^[2]

African American newspapers serving Kentucky today include the Louisville Defender, the Key Newsjournal of Lexington, and the Northern Kentucky Herald, published by Sesh Publications in Cincinnati, Ohio.^[3]

Newspapers

City	Title	Beginning	End	Frequency	Call numbers	Remarks
Bowling Green	The Eagle Eye	1903^[4]	?^[4]	Weekly^[4]	LCCN sn87060407 OCLC 17275340
Bowling Green	Liberty	?	1912^[5]
Bowling Green	Bowling Green Watchman	1887^[2]	1892^[2]			NKAA Entry Founded and edited by Cyrus R. McDowell.
Brownsville	Edmonson Star News / Edmonson County Star / Edmonson Star^[6]	1916^[6]	1917?^[2]	Weekly^[6]	LCCN sn86069463 OCLC 14174340	NKAA Entry Founded and edited by Denver D. Ferguson.^[2]
Cadiz	Cadiz Informer	1904^[2]	1937^[2]			NKAA Entry Edited and published by Wendell H. McRidley.
Covington	The Lincoln-Grant Herald	1913^[2]	?^[2]			Free online archive Edited by E. Beatrice Brown.^[2]
Covington	Suspension Press	1982^[7]	?^[7]	Biweekly (irregular)^[7]	LCCN sn85052183 OCLC 12768960
Danville / Lexington	Torchlight / Torch Light	1902^[5] or 1903^[2]	1929^[2] or 1932^[5]			NKAA Entry Owned and edited by John Edmund Wood.^[2] Moved to Lexington in early 1910s.^[5]
Danville	Tribune	1878^[5]	1892^[5]
Elizabethtown	Christian Pilot	1880s^[5]	1880s^[5]			Published by Eugene Evans.^[5]
Frankfort	The Blue Grass Bugle / Bluegrass Bugle	1898?^[8]	1915^[2]	Weekly^[8]	LCCN sn87060274 OCLC 16046186	NKAA Entry Edited by Edward Ellsworth Underwood.^[2]
Frankfort	Frankfort Clarion	?^[2]	?^[2]			NKAA Entry Owned and edited by Clarence L. Timberlake.^[2]
Frankfort	The Kentucky Club Woman	1900s^[2]				NKAA Entry Official newspaper of the Kentucky State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs.^[2] Edited by Daisy M. Saffell in 1913.^[2]
Frankfort	Masonic Herald	1914^[2]	1915^[2]			NKAA Entry
Frankfort	The Star Weekly	1914^[2]	?^[2]	Weekly		NKAA Entry Edited and published by Hardin Tolbert.^[2]
Frankfort	Frankfort Tribune	?^[2]	?^[2]	Weekly^[5]		NKAA Entry Edited and published by Hardin Tolbert.^[2]
Henderson	Gleaner	1890s		Weekly^[9]
Henderson	Kentucky Missionary Visitor	?^[2]	1915^[2]			NKAA Entry Edited by Paul H. Kennedy.^[2]
Hopkinsville	Baptist Monitor	1880s^[2]				NKAA Entry Edited by James L. Allensworth, Sr.^[2]
Hopkinsville	Hopkinsville Contender	1919^[10]	1920^[10]			NKAA Entry Owned and published by Ephraim Poston.^[2]
Hopkinsville	Hopkinsville Globe Journal / Hopkinsville Globe	1932^[10] or 1936^[2]	1943^[2] or 1941^[10]	Weekly^[10]		NKAA Entry Circulation reached 2,000.^[10]
Hopkinsville	Indicator	1892^[10]	?	Weekly^[11]		Founded by mortician E.W. Glass.^[10] Circulation of 1,800 in 1896.^[11]
Hopkinsville	The Little Courant	1919^[10]	1922^[10]			Founded and published by James T. Whitney Jr.^[10]
Hopkinsville	Major / The Major	1896^[10] or 1897^[2]	1904^[2]			NKAA Entry Published by A.C. Banks.^[10] Purchased by Phil H. Brown in 1903.^[10]
Hopkinsville	Morning News	1903^[2]	1913^[10]	Daily^[10]		NKAA Entry Edited by Phil H. Brown.^[2] Became the Saturday News in 1913.^[10]
Hopkinsville	The New Age	1920s^[10]				Founded by principal M.J. Sleet.^[10]
Hopkinsville	Rising Sun	1900s	1900s			Sold to Hopkinsville Globe.^[1]
Hopkinsville	Saturday News	1913^[10] or 1919^[2]	1922^[2]	Weekly^[10]		NKAA Entry Published by Phil H. Brown.^[2]
Lebanon	Freeman	?	1912^[5]
Lexington	Advance-Courier	1885^[2]	1886^[2]	Weekly^[12]		NKAA Entry
Lexington	American Citizen	1874^[13]	1800s^[13]	Weekly^[13]	LCCN sn84038151 OCLC 11190387	NKAA Entry Edited by Jordan C. Jackson, Jr. and Henry Scroggins.^[2]
Lexington	Bluegrass Chronicle	1978^[2]	1980^[2] or 1981^[14]		LCCN sn85052181 OCLC 12769332	NKAA Entry Published by Edgar Wallace and Nicolas Martin.^[2]
Lexington	Blue Grass New Era	1890s	?	Twice weekly^[11]
Lexington	Christian Trumpet	1921^[2]	?^[2]			NKAA Entry Published by the Convention of the Colored Christian Churches of Kentucky.^[2]
Lexington	The Christian Soldier	1872^[2]	?^[2]			NKAA Entry Edited by R. E. Pearson and printed by Daniel I. Reid.^[2]
Lexington	The Lexington Chronicle	1967^[15]	?^[15]			LCCN sn87060240 OCLC 1566638 NKAA Entry Owned, edited and published by Theodore "Cal" Wallace, Sr. and family.^[2]
Lexington	The Colored Citizen	1913^[16]	?^[16]	Daily^[16]	LCCN sn85052176 OCLC 12746117	NKAA Entry Founded and edited by Daniel I. Reid.^[2]
Lexington	Colored Representative	1871^[17]	1870s^[17]	Weekly^[17]	LCCN 2017225075, sn93059169 OCLC 1000052581, 27447727	Published by G.B. Thomas.^[17]
Lexington	Community Voice	1987^[18]	2001^[2]	Weekly^[18]	LCCN sn92056614 OCLC 26925422	NKAA Entry Published by Don L. Cordray.^[18]
Lexington	Fair Play	1880s^[5]	1880s^[5]			Published by Eugene Evans.^[5]
Lexington	Inter-State County News	1935^[2]	1940^[2]			NKAA Entry Edited by James W. Wood.^[2]
Lexington	Key Newsjournal	2004^[2]	current			Official site NKAA Entry Founded and edited by Patrice Muhammad and LaMaughn Muhammad.
Lexington	Masonic and Odd Fellows' Journal	1876^[2]	?^[2]			NKAA Entry Official newspaper of the Kentucky branches of the Independent Grand Lodge of Masons and Grand United Order of Odd Fellows.^[2]
Lexington	The Lexington Standard	1892^[19]	1912^[19]	Weekly^[19]	ISSN 2157-1384 LCCN 2013254300, sn83025729 OCLC 701514142, 9765671, 2753658	NKAA Entry Editors included R. C. O. Benjamin, William D. Johnson, Daniel I. Reid, Henry P. Slaughter, and Wade H. Carter.^[2]
Lexington	Lexington Weekly News	1912^[2]	?^[2]			NKAA Entry Published by Edward D. Willis, Daniel I. Reid, and A. W. Davis.^[2]
Louisville	Afro-American Mission Herald	1897^[2]	1912^[2]			Free online archive NKAA Entry "[T]he first paper to advance and nurture the foreign mission agenda of the National Baptist Convention of the United States of America."^[20]
Louisville	American Baptist / American Baptist News	1878^[2] or 1879^[21]	current	Weekly^[21]	LCCN sn93062854 OCLC 27507899 ISSN 1943-8885	Official site Free online archive NKAA Entry Successor to the Paducah Baptist Herald.^[21]
Louisville	The Bulletin	1879^[22]	1885^[2]	Weekly^[22]	LCCN 2011254269, sn83016361 OCLC 560545170, 9745888	NKAA Entry Published by John and Cyrus Adams.^[2]
Louisville	The Champion	1890^[2]	1893^[2]			NKAA Entry Edited by Horace Morris and G. W. Hatton.
Louisville	Christian Index	1873^[2]	1882^[2] (Louisville, KY), 1882-1966 (Jackson, TN)^[2]			NKAA Entry Editors: Henry Clay Weeden and J. W. Bell of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church.^[2] Formerly of Memphis, and later relocated to Jackson, Tennessee, where it published until 1966.^[2]
Louisville	The Colored Citizen	1866^[2]	?^[2]			NKAA Entry Edited by Horace Morris, John H. Mason, and Marsh Woodson. Published by the Convention of Colored Men in Kentucky.^[2]
Louisville	The Colored Kentuckian	1867^[2]	?^[2]			NKAA Entry Founded and published by Philip H. Murry and J. P. Sampson.^[2]
Louisville	Louisville Columbian	1899^[2]	1917^[2]			NKAA Entry Edited by L. A. Morris, W. H. Parker, Percy R. Peters, and Jesse B. Colbert.^[2]
Louisville	Columbian Herald	1913^[2]	1927^[2]			NKAA Entry Edited and published by Percy R. Peters.^[2]
Louisville	The Herald Tribune	1937^[2]				NKAA Entry Edited by Charles E. Tucker, William Warley, and Huron Clark.^[2]
Louisville	Kentuckian	1870s^[2]				NKAA Entry Edited by Horace Morris.
Louisville	Kentucky Standard	1898^[2]	1912^[2]			NKAA Entry Edited by William D. Johnson.
Louisville	The Louisville Defender	1933^[23]	current	Weekly^[23]	LCCN sn84025907 OCLC 10644972, 2714260	Official page NKAA Entry
Louisville	Louisville Leader	1917^[2]	1953^[2]			NKAA Entry Founded and edited by I. Willis Cole.^[2]
Louisville	Louisville News	1913^[2]	1947^[2]			NKAA Entry Founded and edited by William Warley; also edited by Lee L. Brown.^[2]
Louisville	New South	1894^[2]	1897^[2]			NKAA Entry Founded and edited by James E. Givens.^[2]
Louisville	The Ohio Falls Express	1878^[24] or 1879^[25]	1904^[24]	Weekly^[24]	LCCN 2014254011, sn84025830 OCLC 10372187, 2755051, 851189446
Louisville	Tri-weekly Informer	1939^[2]	1939^[5]			NKAA Entry Owned and edited by Lucille E. St. Clair, Alice Dunnigan, and M. S. Kimbley.^[2]
Louisville	The Louisville Weekly Planet	1872^[26]	1875^[2]	Weekly^[26]	LCCN sn93059170 OCLC 27447816	NKAA Entry Published by T.F. Cassels and Nathaniel R. Harper.^[26]
Louisville	Zion's Banner	?^[2]	?^[2]			NKAA Entry Edited by Henry Clay Weeden.^[2]
Mt. Sterling	The Reporter	1904^[2]	1915^[2]			NKAA Entry Published by John D. and Noah W. Magowan.^[2]
Owensboro / Louisville	Kentucky Reporter	1899^[2]	1953^[2]	Weekly^[27]	LCCN sn86069325 OCLC 13922717 ISSN 1943-8923	Free online archive NKAA Entry Published by Robert T. and George W. Berry.^[2] Moved from Owensboro to Louisville in 1912.^[5]
Owensboro	Sunday Unionist	1890s		Weekly (on Sundays)^[11]
Paducah	Baptist Herald	1873^[2]	1878^[2] or 1879^[5]			NKAA Entry Owned and edited by Rev. George W. Dupee.^[2]
Paducah	The Kentucky Voice	1988^[2]	2010s	Monthly^[28]		NKAA Entry Published by Kathy Robinson.^[2]
Paducah	Light House / The Light House	1908^[2] or 1909?^[29]	1937^[2]	Weekly^[29]	OCLC 36062051	NKAA Entry Published and edited by T.A. Lawrence.^[29]
Paducah	The Negro Citizen	?^[2]	?^[2]			NKAA Entry Owned and published by Pleasant A. Nichols.
Richmond	Richmond Sentinel	1909^[30]	1912^[5]			Founded and edited by John Austin Gwynn.^[30]
Richmond	Hill Topper	1934	?			Free online archive
Winchester	National Chronicle	1891^[2]	1915^[2]			NKAA Entry Published by John H. Ayres.

Works cited

Danky, James Philip; Hady, Maureen E., eds. (1998). African-American newspapers and periodicals : a national bibliography. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674007888.
Penn, Irvine Garland (1891). The Afro-American press and its editors. Springfield, Massachusetts: Willey & Company. OCLC 503673564.
Pride, Armistead Scott; Wilson, Clint C. (1997). A History of the Black Press. Howard University Press. ISBN 9780882581927.

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Northeast	Bay State Banner Buffalo Criterion New Pittsburgh Courier The New York Age New York Amsterdam News Our Time Press The Philadelphia Tribune The Washington Afro-American The Washington Informer
South	African-American News and Issues Atlanta Black Star Atlanta Daily World Atlanta Inquirer Atlanta Voice Baltimore Afro-American Baltimore Times The Baptist Vanguard Birmingham Times Black Chronicle The Burning Spear Newspaper Carolina Peacemaker The Carolinian The Charleston Chronicle The Charlotte Post The Christian Recorder The Dallas Weekly Florida Sentinel Bulletin The Florida Star Houston Defender Houston Forward Times Jackson Advocate The Jacksonville Advocate Jacksonville Free Press The Louisiana Weekly Louisville Defender The Miami Times New Journal and Guide The New Orleans Tribune Oklahoma Eagle The Orlando Times Richmond Free Press Roanoke Tribune Savannah Tribune Tennessee Tribune The Triangle Tribune Tri-State Defender The Village Beat Winston-Salem Chronicle
Midwest	The Call Call and Post The Chicago Crusader The Chicago Defender The Cincinnati Herald The Columbus Post Fort Wayne Ink Spot Gary Crusader Indianapolis Recorder Michigan Chronicle The Michigan FrontPage Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder Omaha Star The St. Louis American St. Louis Argus St. Louis Sentinel
West	Arizona Informant Black Lens News The Facts Los Angeles Sentinel Los Angeles Wave Oakland Post Portland Observer Richmond Post The Sacramento Observer San Francisco Bay View Seattle Medium The Skanner Sun-Reporter
National	The Final Call