Newspapers & Magazines

Alex Manly was the owner of "The Daily Record" before it was burned by white supremist in 1898 and was he forced out of town.

EBONY Magazine's first edition, which came out November 1, 1945.

John B. Russwurm and Freedom's Journal, the first Black newspaper.

Kenneth Edmonds, the current publisher of The Carolina Times.

Kenneth Edmonds, Publisher of The Carolina Times Dies, Possibly Marking The End Of The Historic Durham, NC Paper

At the helm of The Wilmington Journal, Mary Alice Thatch pushed to cover issues affecting the Black community that had been ignored by the mainstream press.

Raleigh's first Black American weekly newspaper.

P.B. Young, The Dean of the American Black Press

The Carolina Times was founded as The Standard Advertiser in 1921 by Charles Arrant, who was killed in 1922. In 1927 the newspaper was purchased by North Carolina Central University alumnus Louis Austin in Durham, North Carolina. The paper continues to be published today by Austin's grandson, Kenneth Edmonds, and is the only black-owned and operated newspaper in Durham.

Thanks to funding from an IDEA grant from UNC Libraries, the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center is pleased to now have the full run of 1951 issues of the Carolina Times digitized.

The Carolina Times-Durham, NC -Saturday December 2, 1950

Original Copies Of 1898 black-Owned Newspaper Rediscovered

Angry white supremacists burned down "The Daily Record," a black-owned newspaper, on Nov. 10, 1898.

Photograph: The North Carolina Mutual's three founders: John Merrick, C. C. Spaulding, and Dr. Aaron Moore, are pictured in this 1903 publication..