Flipping the Narrative: Movement to Publicly Honor Black Journalists and Newspapers Grows

By Anne Branigin via https://www.theroot.com

This weekend, two trailblazing black newspapers were honored in New Orleans’ French Quarter with a new bronze plaque that heralds their achievements and their contributions to America’s black press and, by extension, black life.

L’Union and la Tribune de la Nouvelle-Orleans (the New Orleans Tribune) circulated among a vast national readership during the Civil War and Reconstruction, the New Orleans Advocate reports.

Founded in 1862 by Dr. Louis Charles Roudanez, L’Union was the South’s first black-owned paper. It published both French and English content, ran three days a week and “claimed a broad following within the Union Army,” the Advocate reports.

This was followed by the Tribune, which two years later became the country’s first black-run daily paper. It was published until 1869.

Both papers were considered radical; historians and activists at the …

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