Michigan Chronicle
| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Owner(s) | Real Times Inc. |
| Publisher | Hiram Jackson |
| Founded | 1936, as Detroit Chronicle |
| Headquarters | 479 Ledyard Street, Detroit, Michigan, United States |
| Circulation |
27,000 weekly in 2015 readership = 120,000 weekly in 2015 |
| Website | michronicleonline.com |
27,000 weekly in 2015
The Michigan Chronicle is a weekly newspaper based in Detroit, Michigan, serving the African-American community. It was founded in 1936 by John H. Sengstacke, owner of the Chicago Defender. Together with the Defender and a handful of other African-American newspapers, it is owned by Detroit-based Real Times Inc. Its headquarters are in the Real Times offices in Midtown Detroit.
The Chronicle's first editor was Louis E. Martin, whom Sengstacke sent to Detroit on June 6, giving him a $5.00 raise above his $15-per-week salary at the Chicago Defender, $10 in cash and a one-way bus ticket. The Chronicle's first issue had a circulation of 5,000 copies. In 1944, long-time publisher Longworth Quinn joined Martin at the Chronicle. Quinn became a leader in Detroit's African-American business and church groups, and those groups supported the Chronicle.
The Chronicle garnered national attention in its early years for its "radical" approach to politics -- advocacy of organized labor and the Democratic Party. Albert Dunmore, who edited the Detroit edition of the Pittsburgh Courier in the 1940s, remarked in 2010 that most African-American newspapers of the time took the opposite stance, because of "the anti-Black attitude prevalent in the organized labor ranks and the heavily southern influence in the Democratic Party".
James Ingram of the Michigan Chronicle was one of several negotiators involved in the Attica Prison Riots in September 1971.
In 2001, Detroit City Council member Kay Everett credited the Michigan Chronicle with having played a key role in local civil rights struggles of the 20th century, such as supporting the election of Mayor Coleman A. Young and, especially, reporting on violence against African-Americans:
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