The New York Amsterdam News
| Format | Tabloid weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Founder(s) | James Henry Anderson |
| Publisher | Elinor Tatum |
| Editor | Elinor Tatum |
| Managing editors | Kristin Fayne-Mulroy |
| Founded | December 4, 1909 |
| Political alignment | Black nationalism |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | New York, NY, United States |
| ISSN | 1059-1818 |
| OCLC number | 13416782 |
| Website | amsterdamnews.com |
The New York Amsterdam News is an American weekly newspaper geared to the African-American community of New York City, New York. It is one of the oldest African-American newspapers in the United States.
It has published columns by notables including W. E. B. Du Bois, Roy Wilkins, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. and was the first to recognize and publish Malcolm X.
The Amsterdam News was founded on December 4, 1909, and is headquartered in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan. The newspaper takes its name from its original location one block east of Amsterdam Avenue, at West 65th Street and Broadway.
An investment of $10 nearly 105 years ago turned the Amsterdam News into one of New York's largest and most influential black-owned-and-operated business institutions, and one of the nation's most prominent ethnic publications.
On December 4, 1909, James H. Anderson put out the first issue of the Amsterdam News. He had $10 in his pocket, six sheets of paper, a lead pencil and a dressmaker's table.
The Amsterdam News was one of only 50 black-owned newspapers in the United States at that time, and it was sold for 2 cents a copy from Anderson's home at 132 West 65th Street, in the San Juan Hill section of Manhattan's Upper West Side. With the spread of Blacks to Harlem and the growing success of the paper, Anderson moved the Amsterdam News uptown to 17 West 135th Street in 1910. In 1916, it moved to 2293 Seventh Avenue, and in 1938, it moved again, to 2271 Seventh Avenue. In the early 1940s, the paper relocated to its present headquarters at 2340 Eighth Avenue (also known in Harlem as Frederick Douglass Boulevard).
Not soon after the death of Edward Warren, one of the early publishers, Anderson sold his stock in the paper. In 1935, after many years of struggle, the paper was sold to the Powell Savory Corporation, then owned by two of the nations foremost Black entrepreneurs, Dr. C.B. Powell and Dr. Phillip M.H. Savory. Dr. Powell assumed the role of publisher.
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