Thomas H. Watkins Built What Black Media Was Told Could Not Last - Stacey Abrams Newsroom https://stacey-abrams-ecosystem.mmcxchange.com/ Fri, 22 May 2026 15:28:20 -0400 en-US hourly 1 Baltimore Times RSS Hub Thomas H. Watkins Built What Black Media Was Told Could Not Last https://stacey-abrams-ecosystem.mmcxchange.com/detail/thomas-h-watkins-built-what-black-media-was-told-could-not-last_1777055407 Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500 https://stacey-abrams-ecosystem.mmcxchange.com/detail/thomas-h-watkins-built-what-black-media-was-told-could-not-last_1777055407 Thomas H. Watkins Built What Black Media Was Told Could Not Last

Thomas H. Watkins built a daily Black newspaper in New York City when few believed it could survive and even fewer wanted it to succeed. Watkins, who died in December at 88, founded the New York Daily Challenge and made it the first Black-owned daily newspaper in the city’s history. From its headquarters in Bedford-Stuyvesant, the paper delivered sustained, unapologetic coverage of Black political power, economic interests, and community life, produced and controlled by Black ownership. At its peak,…]]>