List of African American newspapers in Colorado facts for kids

• Official site: https://africanamericanvoice.net/?page_id=23

• Edited by E.B. Butler.

• Edited by Porter S. Simpson.

Full text of one issue available at Colorado College

• Edited by Mrs. Julia Embry.

• Edited by Frederick Mason Roberts.

• Founded to fulfill "the need of an independent, reliable organ, wherein the Afro-Americans of this city . . . could find expression of their best thought and material progress."

• LCCN sn91052014

• LCCN sn83025515

• Available online

• LCCN sn91052180

• Remembered for its support of the Back-to-Africa movement.

• LCCN sn91052506

• Only one issue of the Argus survives, from 1886.

• LCCN sn84025889

• LCCN sn90051897

• LCCN sn90051192

• LCCN sn88084252, sn90051193

• Founded by Jessica Grant.

• Absorbed into the Denver Statesman. Edited by A.R. Wilson.

• Founded by Thomas Campbell.
• In 1916 the Star announced that “[t]he papers formerly known as The Statesman and The Independent have been merged into The Star.”

• LCCN sn87062123

• Generally listed as an African American newspaper. Billed itself as "non-racial, non-political, non-sectarian - Denver's Picture Weekly."

• LCCN sn89052182

• Attested through 1970.

• LCCN sn90051216

• Official site: https://www.facebook.com/pg/DenverWeeklyNews/

• LCCN sn91052508

• Founded by Lewis Price.
• "[A]mong the first African-American newspapers published west of the Mississippi River."
• Only one issue survives, but many editorials by Henry O. Wagoner from 1882–1883 were reprinted in The Christian Recorder, including his denunciation of the Supreme Court's decision in the 1883 Civil Rights Cases.

• LCCN 2018218636, sn84025887, sn94081616
• ISSN 2577-2384

• Available online
• A continuation of The Statesman (est. 1880s). Known from November 23, 1912 to March 15, 1913 as Franklin's Paper The Denver Star, and then simply The Denver Star.
• Sold by Chester Arthur Franklin in 1913 to the Denver Independent Publishing Company, which ran the paper until the end in 1963.

• LCCN sn8325514

• Founded by Joseph D.D. Rivers. Rivers had also previously founded a different weekly called The Statesman, which was later known as The Denver Star.
• Distinct from a white weekly that was later also called The Colorado Statesman (1898–2017), but until the 1970s was named the Colorado Democrat.

• Available online
• First owned by Joseph D.D. Rivers. Taken over by Edwin Henry Hackley, Colorado's first Black attorney, in 1892, and sold to George F. Franklin in 1898.
• Briefly renamed the Statesman-Exponent in 1895–1896 following the acquisition of the Denver Exponent.
• Renamed Franklin's Paper The Statesman in 1906, to avoid confusion with The Colorado Statesman. Became the Denver Star, which was initially known as Franklin's Paper The Denver Star, in 1912.

• In circulation in 1902.

• ISSN 1085-634X
• LCCN sn95005637

• Official site: http://www.denverurbanspectrum.com/
• Founded by Rosalind J. Harris. "Founded in 1987, the Denver Urban Spectrum (DUS) newspaper covers news and information for and about people of color."

• Founded by Thomas L. Cate.

• Edited by William Jeltz

• LCCN sn94081602, sn93062831

• Noted as a supporter of the 1940 Green Book.

• Founded by Thomas L. Cate, formerly of the La Junta Megaphone, upon his return from serving in World War I. Official local organ of the International Order of Twelve Knights and Daughters of Tabor.
• May have subsequently become the Western Ideal after purchase by W.J. Jackson.

• Founded by M.B. Brooks.

• Edited by O.L. Boyd.

• Edited by O.L. Boyd.