# List of African American newspapers in Delaware

This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in the state of Delaware. It includes both current and historical newspapers.
The first known African American newspaper published in Delaware was Our National Progress, which from 1869 to 1875 was published simultaneously in Wilmington and other cities in the Mid-Atlantic states, and was "viewed by some as the only national Black paper in the corridor between Washington and New York." Other notable Delaware papers include The Advance (1899–1901), and the Wilmington Advocate, which noted poet and journalist Alice Dunbar Nelson operated from 1920 to 1922.
The majority of such newspapers have been published in Wilmington, the state's capital. However, for much of its history Wilmington's African American population was too small to support even one such newspaper at a time. Irvine Garland Penn, who tabulated the African American newspapers in circulation in 1880 and 1890 in The Afro-American Press and Its Editors, did not list a single Delaware newspaper for either year. For much of the late 19th and early 20th centuries when no African American paper operated, news of the community was shared in a column in one of Wilmington's white weeklies, the Sunday Morning Star.

## Newspapers

| City | Title | Beginning | End | Frequency | Call numbers | Remarks |
| Dover | People's Beacon | 1945 | ? | Irregular | LCCN sn88053145 OCLC 18868801 | Published by the Delaware People's League. |
| New Castle | Delaware Observer | 1968 | 1988? | Monthly newspaper | LCCN sn88053124 OCLC 18785990 | |
| New Castle | North Star | 1981 | ? | Monthly | | |
| Wilmington | The Advance | 1899 | 1901 | Weekly | ISSN 2637-8213, 2637-8205 LCCN 2014254333, sn86058063 OCLC 879705302, 13353313 | Free online archive |
| Wilmington | Wilmington Advocate | 1920 | 1922 | Weekly | | Published by Alice Dunbar Nelson and husband Robert Nelson. No known copies survive, although some printing plates do. |
| Wilmington | Arrow | 1958 | 1960? | Monthly newspaper | LCCN sn88053094 OCLC 18302146 | |
| Wilmington | The Defender (1965–1967) / The Delaware Defender (1962–1965) / The Delaware Valley Defender (1967–1980s) | 1962 | 1985? | Weekly | The Delaware Defender: LCCN sn88053027 OCLC 17742854 The Defender: LCCN sn88053028 OCLC 17742994 The Delaware Valley Defender: LCCN sn88053134 OCLC 18784587 | |
| Wilmington | The Delaware Reporter | 1940 | ? | Weekly | LCCN sn88053110 OCLC 18801770 | Published by J. Alexis DuBois. Billed as “Delaware’s only Negro newspaper.” |
| Wilmington | The Delaware Spectator | 1972 | 1976 | Weekly | LCCN sn87054000 OCLC 17247954 | Approximately 10% in Spanish. |
| Wilmington | The Delaware Star (1976–1978) / The Delaware Valley Star (1978–1984) | 1976 | 1984 | Monthly 1976–1978; biweekly, 1978–1980; weekly, 1980–1984 | | Delaware Star: LCCN sn88053030 OCLC 17742879 Delaware Valley Star: LCCN sn89099207 OCLC 19233230 |
| Wilmington | Focus | 1930 | ? | Weekly | | Billed as “Delaware’s only Negro newspaper.” |
| Wilmington | Front Page | 1944 | ? | Weekly | LCCN sn88053112 OCLC 18801764 | |
| Wilmington | Wilmington Herald Times | 1941 | ? | Weekly | LCCN sn88053136 OCLC 18785987 | |
| Wilmington | Our National Progress | 1869 | 1875? | Weekly | LCCN sn83032133 OCLC 10213663 | Published by C.M.Brown. Edited starting in 1870 by William H. Day. One issue survives. |
| Wilmington | The People’s Pulse | 1968 | 1970 | Monthly | LCCN sn88053032 OCLC 17742923 | Published by Peoples Settlement Association & United Neighbors for Progress Publications. |
| Wilmington | The Sower: A Christian Newspaper | 1984 | ? | Monthly newspaper | | Published and edited by Ralph Morris. |
| Wilmington | Twilight | 1890s | | Weekly | | |