Negro World
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Negro World was a weekly newspaper, established in January 1918 in New York City
, which served as the voice of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League
, an organization founded by Marcus Garvey
in 1914. For a nickel, readers received a front page editorial by Garvey, along with poetry and articles of international interest to people of African ancestry
. Under the editorship of Amy Jacques Garvey
, the paper featured a full page called, "Our Women and What They Think".
The paper had a distribution of upwards of five hundred thousand copies weekly at its peak, which included both subscribers and newspaper purchasers. Colonial rulers banned its sales and even possession in their territories. Distribution in foreign countries was conducted through black seamen who would smuggle the paper into such areas. It ceased publication in 1933.
Editors and contributors to the Negro World included:
New York City
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, which served as the voice of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League
Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League
The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League is a black nationalist fraternal organization founded by Marcus Garvey. The organization enjoyed its greatest strength in the 1990s, prior to Garvey's deportation from the United States of America, after which its...
, an organization founded by Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., ONH was a Jamaican publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League...
in 1914. For a nickel, readers received a front page editorial by Garvey, along with poetry and articles of international interest to people of African ancestry
African diaspora
The African diaspora was the movement of Africans and their descendants to places throughout the world—predominantly to the Americas also to Europe, the Middle East and other places around the globe...
. Under the editorship of Amy Jacques Garvey
Amy Jacques Garvey
Amy Euphemia Jacques Garvey was the second wife of Marcus Garvey, and a journalist and activist in her own right. She was born to George Samuel and Charlotte Henrietta Jacques, in Kingston, Jamaica....
, the paper featured a full page called, "Our Women and What They Think".
The paper had a distribution of upwards of five hundred thousand copies weekly at its peak, which included both subscribers and newspaper purchasers. Colonial rulers banned its sales and even possession in their territories. Distribution in foreign countries was conducted through black seamen who would smuggle the paper into such areas. It ceased publication in 1933.
Editors and contributors to the Negro World included:
- Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston was an American folklorist, anthropologist, and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance...
, - Duse Mohamed AliDusé Mohamed AliDusé Mohamed Ali , , was an African nationalist. He was also an actor, historian, journalist, editor, lecturer, traveller, publisher, a founder of the Comet Press Ltd. and The Comet newspaper .-Early life:He was born in Alexandria, Egypt...
, - Amy Ashwood GarveyAmy Ashwood GarveyAmy Ashwood Garvey was a Jamaican Pan-Africanist activist and the first wife of Marcus Garvey.Garvey was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica, she spent some years living in Panama. As a child, she was told by grandmother that she was of Ashanti descent...
, - Amy Jacques GarveyAmy Jacques GarveyAmy Euphemia Jacques Garvey was the second wife of Marcus Garvey, and a journalist and activist in her own right. She was born to George Samuel and Charlotte Henrietta Jacques, in Kingston, Jamaica....
, - Carter Godwin Woodson,
- W. A. Domingo,
- Hubert Henry Harrison,
- Timothy Thomas FortuneTimothy Thomas FortuneTimothy Thomas Fortune was an orator, civil rights leader, journalist, writer, editor and publisher. He was born during slavery in Marianna, Jackson County, Florida to Emanuel and Sarah Jane Fortune.-Early life:...
, - Arthur Schomburg,
- John G. JacksonJohn G. Jackson (writer)John Glover Jackson was a Pan-Africanist historian, lecturer, teacher and writer. He promoted ideas of Afrocentrism, Black atheists, and Jesus Christ in comparative mythology....
- John Edward BruceJohn Edward BruceJohn Edward Bruce, also known as Bruce Grit or J. E. Bruce-Grit , born a slave in Maryland, United States, became a journalist, historian, writer, orator, civil rights activist and Pan-African nationalist...
, - William Henry Ferris,
- Norton G. G. Thomas, and
- Eric WalrondEric D. WalrondEric Derwent Walrond was an African-American Harlem Renaissance writer, who made a lasting contribution to literature; his work still being in print today as a classic of its era...
.