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Walter Turner

BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator Walter Turner is host of Africa Today, KPFA Radio, co-author of Africa Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000 and Chairperson of the Social Sciences Department, College of Marin. Click here to contact Mr. Turner.

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Pan Africanist Press: Proudly Celebrating 400 Issues of Pambazuka News

By Walter Turner Guest Commentator

The following words were highlighted on the front page of the first African American owned and operated newspaper in the United States – Freedom’s Journal in 1827. “We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us.” The founders of Freedom’s Journal, Samuel Cornish and John B. Russwurm, published 52 issues…

The following words were highlighted on the front page of the first African American owned and operated newspaper in the United States - Freedom’s Journal in…

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