List of African American newspapers in Iowa

This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in Iowa.

The first African American newspaper in Iowa was the Colored Advance of Corning, Iowa, founded in 1882. It was followed the next year by the Des Moines Rising Son. By far the longest-lasting, however, was the Iowa Bystander, which spanned more than a century.

During the peak period of African American newspaper founding in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the African American population in Iowa was less than 20,000. As a result, the number of such papers established in Iowa is much lower than in some neighboring states such as Illinois.

A hotspot of African American newspaper publishing in the early 20th century was Buxton, a coal-mining town that no longer exists. Around eight African American newspapers were published there in the first decades of the 20th century.