AFRICAN AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS
This 1936 scene reveals the newsroom of Harlem’s Amsterdam News, one of the nation’s leading African American newspapers. Ironically, the Civil Rights movement and affirmative action policies since the 1960s served to drain talented reporters from the black press by encouraging them to work for larger, mainstream newspapers. © Lucien Aigner/Corbis
This 1936 scene reveals the newsroom of Harlem’s Amsterdam News, one of the nation’s leading African American newspapers. Ironically, the Civil Rights movement and affirmative action policies since the 1960s served to drain talented reporters from the black press by encouraging them to work for larger, mainstream newspapers. © Lucien Aigner/Corbis