The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism

The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism projects

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Robert Vann’s Pittsburgh Courier set a pattern for what the Black press could do
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Freedom’s Journal marked the beginning of the Black press
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Simeon Booker among Black chroniclers of civil rights-era atrocities
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Black journalist Alexander M. Rivera, who covered Willie Earle lynching trial, recalls tension, fear
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NAACP head Walter White was a pioneering Black journalist
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Frederick Douglass founded newspapers to allow Black writers to tell their own stories
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James Weldon Johnson gave voice to Black people’s dignity and creativity
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Ida B. Wells exposed the economic truths behind lynchings
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A timeline of post-Civil War racial terror and federal legislative efforts to stop It
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Explore the Printing Hate lynching coverage database

Using computational historical research methods, the Howard Center analyzed more than 40,000 scanned newspaper pages to identify and classify problematic historical coverage of racial terror lynchings by white-owned newspapers. All of the papers in the database, which we expect to continue updating, were still published in some form when they were added to the database.