Louisville Defender is a weekly newspaper in Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...

. It was founded in 1933 by Alvin Bowman of Louisville and John Sengstacke of Chicago. It joined The Louisville Leader

The Louisville Leader

The Louisville Leader was a weekly newspaper published in Louisville, Kentucky.- History :The Louisville Leader was a weekly African American newspaper founded by I. Willis Cole in November 1917...

and Louisville News as African American newspapers

African American newspapers

African American newspapers are those newspapers in the United States that seek readers primarily of African American descent. These newspapers came into existence in 1827 when Samuel Cornish and John Brown Russwurm started the first African-American periodical called Freedom's Journal...

and the city. Frank Stanley Sr. bought Sengstacke's share in 1936, and published the paper for the next 37 years.

Stanley's column, Being Frank, became nationally syndicated in the 1940s. After his death, his wife and sons became co-publishers, and the family eventually sold its ownership in 1985.