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List of first African-American newspapers

The first African-American newspaper of all time was Freedom's Journal, which Frederick Douglass launched in 1827.

The first daily African-American newspaper was La Tribune de la Nouvelle-Orleans, a bilingual paper launched in 1864 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The first newspaper by and for African American women was The Woman's Era, a monthly launched in Boston in 1894. The first newspaper headed by an African American woman was not published in the United States: it was The Provincial Freeman, a newspaper that Mary Ann Shadd, a refugee from Delaware, founded in Windsor, Ontario in 1853.

By state
This is a list of the first known African-American newspaper in each of the United States. This list includes the District of Columbia and omits six states that are not known to have ever had an African-American newspaper: Idaho, Wyoming, North and South Dakota, Vermont and New Hampshire.

The first state to join this list was New York, with the launch of Freedom's Journal in 1827. The most recent was Hawaii in 1974.