The New York Age was an American weekly newspaper established in 1887 in New York City. It was widely considered one of the most prominent African-American newspapers of its time.[1] It also went by the names the New York Globe, the New YorkFreeman, and the New York Age Defender.
History
Origins, 1884–1887
The New York Age newspaper was founded as the weekly New York Globe (not to be confused with New York's Saturday family weekly, The Globe, founded 1892 by James M. Place or the daily The New York Globe founded in 1904), an
African-American newspaper that was published weekly from at least 1880 to November 8, 1884. It was co-founded by editor
Timothy Thomas Fortune,[2] a former slave;[3] his brother, Emanuel Fortune Jr.; and editor,
Jerome B. Peterson.
The newspaper became the [New York] Freeman, from November 22, 1884 to October 8, 1887, published six times weekly.
1887–1960
On October 15, 1887, the newspaper officially became the weekly New York Age.Fred R. Moore bought the paper in 1907 from Fortune brothers and Peterson.[4][5] Peterson continued to work at the paper after the sale, as an advisor; and was made the American
consul to
Puerto Cabello,
Venezuela, from 1904 to 1906.[6][7] From 1953 to 1957, it was titled the New York Age Defender.
The 1974 Reawakening of the African-American weekly
In 1974, the New York Age was revitalized by
Adam Clayton Powell III in an attempt to recapture the energy and influence the original Age had. The new version of the paper was initially ran with 100,00 copies and ran a staff of six reporters across the NYC area. [9]
^Horner, Shirley (October 3, 1993).
"About Books". The New York Times.
ISSN0362-4331. Retrieved December 19, 2007. Timothy Thomas Fortune, a pioneering black journalist, who went on to start The New York Age, once the nation's leading black newspaper, moved to Red Bank in 1901
^"Spirit That Started Age Still Lives," by Olive Arnold Adams, New York Age Defender, Vol. 75, No. 24, August 27, 1955, pps. 1–2 (accessible viaNewspapers.com, p. 1 and p. 2; subscription required)