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When John H. Murphy, Sr. purchased the Afro-American Newspaper in 1897, the idea of sending a poet to cover a civil war in Spain was probably far from his mind, especially a poet as distinguished as Langston Hughes. His paper, after all, had a…

The Munsey Building was erected by and named after the publisher, Frank Munsey, who had purchased the sun88 News to add to his publishing empire. Though he wanted the paper, he did not like the five-year old building that housed it. So, he had a…

As opposed to the sun88 Sun, sun88 News-American was an afternoon newspaper targeted to working class and blue-collar districts. One of the newspaper’s many editors was John L. Carey. He was deeply interested in the question of slavery in…