Editors and Publishers
Floyd Adams Jr. (1945-2014)
Floyd Adams Jr. made history as the first African American to be elected mayor of Savannah, Georgia’s oldest city. Adams...
Thomas Clarence Jervay, Sr. (1914-1993)
Thomas Clarence Jervay, Sr., former National Newspaper Publishers Association Chair and activist journalist, was born in Wilmington, North Carolina (NC),...
The Black Scholar (1969- )
The Black Scholar is a quarterly journal founded in 1969 by Nathan Hare, Robert Chrisman, and Allan Ross. It is...
Ophelia DeVore Mitchell (1922-2014)
Ophelia DeVore Mitchell was an American businesswoman, publisher, and one of the first African American models in the United States....
Charles A. Davis (1922-2016)
Charles A. Davis was a journalist, founder of one of Chicago’s first African-American-owned public relations agencies, commercial real estate developer,...
Camille Billops (1933-2019)
Camille J. Billops, artist, filmmaker, archivist, and professor, was born on August 12, 1933, in Los Angeles. Her parents were...
Wanda Evans Coleman (1946-2013)
Wanda Evans Coleman was an American poet and writer who won critical acclaim for her avant-garde work, but remained relatively...
Dean P. Baquet (1956- )
Dean P. Baquet is primarily known as a Pulitzer Prize winner in journalism and the first African American executive editor...
Barbara Smith (1946- )
Beginning in the 1970s, Barbara Smith broke new ground as a black feminist, lesbian, activist, author, and book publisher of...
