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Kentucky Reporter 1902-03-22
March 22, 1902 issue of the Kentucky Reporter of Owensville.
Alice Dunnigan (13270022973)
Alice Allison Dunnigan, pioneering journalist whose newspaper career began at the Rising Sun and Globe Journal in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in Kentucky. It includes both current and historical newspapers.

The first known African American newspapers to serve Kentucky were the Colored Citizen, which was briefly published in Louisville in 1866, and the Colored Kentuckian, launched in 1867.

African American newspapers serving Kentucky today include the Louisville Defender, the Key Newsjournal of Lexington, and the Northern Kentucky Herald, published by Sesh Publications in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Newspapers

City Title Beginning End Frequency Call numbers Remarks
Bowling Green The Eagle Eye 1903 ? Weekly
Bowling Green Liberty ? 1912
Bowling Green Bowling Green Watchman 1887 1892
  • NKAA Entry
  • Founded and edited by Cyrus R. McDowell.
Brownsville Edmonson Star News / Edmonson County Star / Edmonson Star 1916 1917? Weekly
Cadiz Cadiz Informer 1904 1937
  • NKAA Entry
  • Edited and published by Wendell H. McRidley.
Covington The Lincoln-Grant Herald 1913 ?
  • Free online archive
  • Edited by E. Beatrice Brown.
Covington Suspension Press 1982 ? Biweekly (irregular)
Danville / Lexington Torchlight / Torch Light 1902 or 1903 1929 or 1932
  • NKAA Entry
  • Owned and edited by John Edmund Wood.
  • Moved to Lexington in early 1910s.
Danville Tribune 1878 1892
Elizabethtown Christian Pilot 1880s 1880s
  • Published by Eugene Evans.
Frankfort The Blue Grass Bugle / Bluegrass Bugle 1898? 1915 Weekly
  • NKAA Entry
  • Edited by Edward Ellsworth Underwood.
Frankfort Frankfort Clarion ? ?
  • NKAA Entry
  • Owned and edited by Clarence L. Timberlake.
Frankfort The Kentucky Club Woman 1900s
  • NKAA Entry
  • Official newspaper of the Kentucky State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs.
  • Edited by Daisy M. Saffell in 1913.
Frankfort Masonic Herald 1914 1915
  • NKAA Entry
Frankfort The Star Weekly 1914 ? Weekly
  • NKAA Entry
  • Edited and published by Hardin Tolbert.
Frankfort Frankfort Tribune ? ? Weekly
  • NKAA Entry
  • Edited and published by Hardin Tolbert.
Henderson Gleaner 1890s Weekly
Henderson Kentucky Missionary Visitor ? 1915
  • NKAA Entry
  • Edited by Paul H. Kennedy.
Hopkinsville Baptist Monitor 1880s
  • NKAA Entry
  • Edited by James L. Allensworth, Sr.
Hopkinsville Hopkinsville Contender 1919 1920
  • NKAA Entry
  • Owned and published by Ephraim Poston.
Hopkinsville Hopkinsville Globe Journal / Hopkinsville Globe 1932 or 1936 1943 or 1941 Weekly
  • NKAA Entry
  • Circulation reached 2,000.
Hopkinsville Indicator 1892 ? Weekly
  • Founded by mortician E.W. Glass.
  • Circulation of 1,800 in 1896.
Hopkinsville The Little Courant 1919 1922
  • Founded and published by James T. Whitney Jr.
Hopkinsville Major / The Major 1896 or 1897 1904
  • NKAA Entry
  • Published by A.C. Banks.
  • Purchased by Phil H. Brown in 1903.
Hopkinsville Morning News 1903 1913 Daily
  • NKAA Entry
  • Edited by Phil H. Brown.
  • Became the Saturday News in 1913.
Hopkinsville The New Age 1920s
  • Founded by principal M.J. Sleet.
Hopkinsville Rising Sun 1900s 1900s
  • Sold to Hopkinsville Globe.
Hopkinsville Saturday News 1913 or 1919 1922 Weekly
  • NKAA Entry
  • Published by Phil H. Brown.
Lebanon Freeman ? 1912
Lexington Advance-Courier 1885 1886 Weekly
  • NKAA Entry
Lexington American Citizen 1874 1800s Weekly
  • NKAA Entry
  • Edited by Jordan C. Jackson, Jr. and Henry Scroggins.
Lexington Bluegrass Chronicle 1978 1980 or 1981
  • NKAA Entry
  • Published by Edgar Wallace and Nicolas Martin.
Lexington Blue Grass New Era 1890s ? Twice weekly
Lexington Christian Trumpet 1921 ?
  • NKAA Entry
  • Published by the Convention of the Colored Christian Churches of Kentucky.
Lexington The Christian Soldier 1872 ?
  • NKAA Entry
  • Edited by R. E. Pearson and printed by Daniel I. Reid.
Lexington The Lexington Chronicle 1967 ?
  • LCCN sn87060240
  • NKAA Entry
  • Owned, edited and published by Theodore "Cal" Wallace, Sr. and family.
Lexington The Colored Citizen 1913 ? Daily
  • NKAA Entry
  • Founded and edited by Daniel I. Reid.
Lexington Colored Representative 1871 1870s Weekly
  • LCCN 2017225075, sn93059169
  • Published by G.B. Thomas.
Lexington Community Voice 1987 2001 Weekly
  • NKAA Entry
  • Published by Don L. Cordray.
Lexington Fair Play 1880s 1880s
  • Published by Eugene Evans.
Lexington Inter-State County News 1935 1940
  • NKAA Entry
  • Edited by James W. Wood.
Lexington Key Newsjournal 2004 current
  • Official site: http://lextown.info/
  • NKAA Entry
  • Founded and edited by Patrice Muhammad and LaMaughn Muhammad.
Lexington Masonic and Odd Fellows' Journal 1876 ?
  • NKAA Entry
  • Official newspaper of the Kentucky branches of the Independent Grand Lodge of Masons and Grand United Order of Odd Fellows.
Lexington The Lexington Standard 1892 1912 Weekly
  • ISSN 2157-1384 2157-1384
  • LCCN 2013254300, sn83025729
  • NKAA Entry
  • Editors included R. C. O. Benjamin, William D. Johnson, Daniel I. Reid, Henry P. Slaughter, and Wade H. Carter.
Lexington Lexington Weekly News 1912 ?
  • NKAA Entry
  • Published by Edward D. Willis, Daniel I. Reid, and A. W. Davis.
Louisville Afro-American Mission Herald 1897 1912
  • Free online archive
  • NKAA Entry
  • "[T]he first paper to advance and nurture the foreign mission agenda of the National Baptist Convention of the United States of America."
Louisville American Baptist / American Baptist News 1878 or 1879 current Weekly
  • Official site: https://www.abnewsky.com/
  • Free online archive
  • NKAA Entry
  • Successor to the Paducah Baptist Herald.
Louisville The Bulletin 1879 1885 Weekly
  • LCCN 2011254269, sn83016361
  • NKAA Entry
  • Published by John and Cyrus Adams.
Louisville The Champion 1890 1893
  • NKAA Entry
  • Edited by Horace Morris and G. W. Hatton.
Louisville Christian Index 1873 1882 (Louisville, KY), 1882-1966 (Jackson, TN)
  • NKAA Entry
  • Editors: Henry Clay Weeden and J. W. Bell of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church.
  • Formerly of Memphis, and later relocated to Jackson, Tennessee, where it published until 1966.
Louisville The Colored Citizen 1866 ?
  • NKAA Entry
  • Edited by Horace Morris, John H. Mason, and Marsh Woodson. Published by the Convention of Colored Men in Kentucky.
Louisville The Colored Kentuckian 1867 ?
  • NKAA Entry
  • Founded and published by Philip H. Murry and J. P. Sampson.
Louisville Louisville Columbian 1899 1917
  • NKAA Entry
  • Edited by L. A. Morris, W. H. Parker, Percy R. Peters, and Jesse B. Colbert.
Louisville Columbian Herald 1913 1927
  • NKAA Entry
  • Edited and published by Percy R. Peters.
Louisville The Herald Tribune 1937
  • NKAA Entry
  • Edited by Charles E. Tucker, William Warley, and Huron Clark.
Louisville Kentuckian 1870s
  • NKAA Entry
  • Edited by Horace Morris.
Louisville Kentucky Standard 1898 1912
  • NKAA Entry
  • Edited by William D. Johnson.
Louisville The Louisville Defender 1933 current Weekly
  • Official page: https://www.facebook.com/pg/louisvilledefender
  • NKAA Entry
Louisville Louisville Leader 1917 1953
  • NKAA Entry
  • Founded and edited by I. Willis Cole.
Louisville Louisville News 1913 1947
  • NKAA Entry
  • Founded and edited by William Warley; also edited by Lee L. Brown.
Louisville New South 1894 1897
  • NKAA Entry
  • Founded and edited by James E. Givens.
Louisville The Ohio Falls Express 1878 or 1879 1904 Weekly
  • LCCN 2014254011, sn84025830
Louisville Tri-weekly Informer 1939 1939
  • NKAA Entry
  • Owned and edited by Lucille E. St. Clair, Alice Dunnigan, and M. S. Kimbley.
Louisville The Louisville Weekly Planet 1872 1875 Weekly
  • NKAA Entry
  • Published by T.F. Cassels and Nathaniel R. Harper.
Louisville Zion's Banner ? ?
  • NKAA Entry
  • Edited by Henry Clay Weeden.
Mt. Sterling The Reporter 1904 1915
  • NKAA Entry
  • Published by John D. and Noah W. Magowan.
Owensboro / Louisville Kentucky Reporter 1899 1953 Weekly
  • Free online archive
  • NKAA Entry
  • Published by Robert T. and George W. Berry.
  • Moved from Owensboro to Louisville in 1912.
Owensboro Sunday Unionist 1890s Weekly (on Sundays)
Paducah Baptist Herald 1873 1878 or 1879
  • NKAA Entry
  • Owned and edited by Rev. George W. Dupee.
Paducah The Kentucky Voice 1988 2010s Monthly
  • NKAA Entry
  • Published by Kathy Robinson.
Paducah Light House / The Light House 1908 or 1909? 1937 Weekly
  • NKAA Entry
  • Published and edited by T.A. Lawrence.
Paducah The Negro Citizen ? ?
  • NKAA Entry
  • Owned and published by Pleasant A. Nichols.
Richmond Richmond Sentinel 1909 1912
  • Founded and edited by John Austin Gwynn.
Richmond Hill Topper 1934 ?
  • Free online archive
Winchester National Chronicle 1891 1915
  • NKAA Entry
  • Published by John H. Ayres.

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