# List of African American newspapers in Kentucky

This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in Kentucky. It includes both current and historical newspapers.
The first known African American newspapers to serve Kentucky were the Colored Citizen, which was briefly published in Louisville in 1866, and the Colored Kentuckian, launched in 1867.
African American newspapers serving Kentucky today include the Louisville Defender, the Key Newsjournal of Lexington, and the Northern Kentucky Herald, published by Sesh Publications in Cincinnati, Ohio.

## Newspapers

| City | Title | Beginning | End | Frequency | Call numbers | Remarks |
| Bowling Green | The Eagle Eye | 1903 | ? | Weekly | LCCN sn87060407 OCLC 17275340 | |
| Bowling Green | Liberty | ? | 1912 | | | |
| Bowling Green | Bowling Green Watchman | 1887 | 1892 | | | NKAA Entry Founded and edited by Cyrus R. McDowell. |
| Brownsville | Edmonson Star News / Edmonson County Star / Edmonson Star | 1916 | 1917? | Weekly | LCCN sn86069463 OCLC 14174340 | NKAA Entry Founded and edited by Denver D. Ferguson. |
| Cadiz | Cadiz Informer | 1904 | 1937 | | | NKAA Entry Edited and published by Wendell H. McRidley. |
| Covington | The Lincoln-Grant Herald | 1913 | ? | | | Free online archive Edited by E. Beatrice Brown. |
| Covington | Suspension Press | 1982 | ? | Biweekly (irregular) | LCCN sn85052183 OCLC 12768960 | |
| Danville / Lexington | Torchlight / Torch Light | 1902 or 1903 | 1929 or 1932 | | | NKAA Entry Owned and edited by John Edmund Wood. Moved to Lexington in early 1910s. |
| Danville | Tribune | 1878 | 1892 | | | |
| Elizabethtown | Christian Pilot | 1880s | 1880s | | | Published by Eugene Evans. |
| Frankfort | The Blue Grass Bugle / Bluegrass Bugle | 1898? | 1915 | Weekly | LCCN sn87060274 OCLC 16046186 | NKAA Entry Edited by Edward Ellsworth Underwood. |
| Frankfort | Frankfort Clarion | ? | ? | | | NKAA Entry Owned and edited by Clarence L. Timberlake. |
| Frankfort | The Kentucky Club Woman | 1900s | | | | NKAA Entry Official newspaper of the Kentucky State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. Edited by Daisy M. Saffell in 1913. |
| Frankfort | Masonic Herald | 1914 | 1915 | | | NKAA Entry |
| Frankfort | The Star Weekly | 1914 | ? | Weekly | | NKAA Entry Edited and published by Hardin Tolbert. |
| Frankfort | Frankfort Tribune | ? | ? | Weekly | | NKAA Entry Edited and published by Hardin Tolbert. |
| Henderson | Gleaner | 1890s | | Weekly | | |
| Henderson | Kentucky Missionary Visitor | ? | 1915 | | | NKAA Entry Edited by Paul H. Kennedy. |
| Hopkinsville | Baptist Monitor | 1880s | | | | NKAA Entry Edited by James L. Allensworth, Sr. |
| Hopkinsville | Hopkinsville Contender | 1919 | 1920 | | | NKAA Entry Owned and published by Ephraim Poston. |
| Hopkinsville | Hopkinsville Globe Journal / Hopkinsville Globe | 1932 or 1936 | 1943 or 1941 | Weekly | | NKAA Entry Circulation reached 2,000. |
| Hopkinsville | Indicator | 1892 | ? | Weekly | | Founded by mortician E.W. Glass. Circulation of 1,800 in 1896. |
| Hopkinsville | The Little Courant | 1919 | 1922 | | | Founded and published by James T. Whitney Jr. |
| Hopkinsville | Major / The Major | 1896 or 1897 | 1904 | | | NKAA Entry Published by A.C. Banks. Purchased by Phil H. Brown in 1903. |
| Hopkinsville | Morning News | 1903 | 1913 | Daily | | NKAA Entry Edited by Phil H. Brown. Became the Saturday News in 1913. |
| Hopkinsville | The New Age | 1920s | | | | Founded by principal M.J. Sleet. |
| Hopkinsville | Rising Sun | 1900s | 1900s | | | Sold to Hopkinsville Globe. |
| Hopkinsville | Saturday News | 1913 or 1919 | 1922 | Weekly | | NKAA Entry Published by Phil H. Brown. |
| Lebanon | Freeman | ? | 1912 | | | |
| Lexington | Advance-Courier | 1885 | 1886 | Weekly | | NKAA Entry |
| Lexington | American Citizen | 1874 | 1800s | Weekly | LCCN sn84038151 OCLC 11190387 | NKAA Entry Edited by Jordan C. Jackson, Jr. and Henry Scroggins. |
| Lexington | Bluegrass Chronicle | 1978 | 1980 or 1981 | | LCCN sn85052181 OCLC 12769332 | NKAA Entry Published by Edgar Wallace and Nicolas Martin. |
| Lexington | Blue Grass New Era | 1890s | ? | Twice weekly | | |
| Lexington | Christian Trumpet | 1921 | ? | | | NKAA Entry Published by the Convention of the Colored Christian Churches of Kentucky. |
| Lexington | The Christian Soldier | 1872 | ? | | | NKAA Entry Edited by R. E. Pearson and printed by Daniel I. Reid. |
| Lexington | The Lexington Chronicle | 1967 | ? | | | LCCN sn87060240 OCLC 1566638 NKAA Entry Owned, edited and published by Theodore "Cal" Wallace, Sr. and family. |
| Lexington | The Colored Citizen | 1913 | ? | Daily | LCCN sn85052176 OCLC 12746117 | NKAA Entry Founded and edited by Daniel I. Reid. |
| Lexington | Colored Representative | 1871 | 1870s | Weekly | LCCN 2017225075, sn93059169 OCLC 1000052581, 27447727 | Published by G.B. Thomas. |
| Lexington | Community Voice | 1987 | 2001 | Weekly | LCCN sn92056614 OCLC 26925422 | NKAA Entry Published by Don L. Cordray. |
| Lexington | Fair Play | 1880s | 1880s | | | Published by Eugene Evans. |
| Lexington | Inter-State County News | 1935 | 1940 | | | NKAA Entry Edited by James W. Wood. |
| Lexington | Key Newsjournal | 2004 | current | | | Official site NKAA Entry Founded and edited by Patrice Muhammad and LaMaughn Muhammad. |
| Lexington | Masonic and Odd Fellows' Journal | 1876 | ? | | | NKAA Entry Official newspaper of the Kentucky branches of the Independent Grand Lodge of Masons and Grand United Order of Odd Fellows. |
| Lexington | The Lexington Standard | 1892 | 1912 | Weekly | ISSN 2157-1384 LCCN 2013254300, sn83025729 OCLC 701514142, 9765671, 2753658 | NKAA Entry Editors included R. C. O. Benjamin, William D. Johnson, Daniel I. Reid, Henry P. Slaughter, and Wade H. Carter. |
| Lexington | Lexington Weekly News | 1912 | ? | | | NKAA Entry Published by Edward D. Willis, Daniel I. Reid, and A. W. Davis. |
| Louisville | Afro-American Mission Herald | 1897 | 1912 | | | Free online archive NKAA Entry "[T]he first paper to advance and nurture the foreign mission agenda of the National Baptist Convention of the United States of America." |
| Louisville | American Baptist / American Baptist News | 1878 or 1879 | current | Weekly | LCCN sn93062854 OCLC 27507899 ISSN 1943-8885 | Official site Free online archive NKAA Entry Successor to the Paducah Baptist Herald. |
| Louisville | The Bulletin | 1879 | 1885 | Weekly | LCCN 2011254269, sn83016361 OCLC 560545170, 9745888 | NKAA Entry Published by John and Cyrus Adams. |
| Louisville | The Champion | 1890 | 1893 | | | NKAA Entry Edited by Horace Morris and G. W. Hatton. |
| Louisville | Christian Index | 1873 | 1882 (Louisville, KY), 1882-1966 (Jackson, TN) | | | NKAA Entry Editors: Henry Clay Weeden and J. W. Bell of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church. Formerly of Memphis, and later relocated to Jackson, Tennessee, where it published until 1966. |
| Louisville | The Colored Citizen | 1866 | ? | | | NKAA Entry Edited by Horace Morris, John H. Mason, and Marsh Woodson. Published by the Convention of Colored Men in Kentucky. |
| Louisville | The Colored Kentuckian | 1867 | ? | | | NKAA Entry Founded and published by Philip H. Murry and J. P. Sampson. |
| Louisville | Louisville Columbian | 1899 | 1917 | | | NKAA Entry Edited by L. A. Morris, W. H. Parker, Percy R. Peters, and Jesse B. Colbert. |
| Louisville | Columbian Herald | 1913 | 1927 | | | NKAA Entry Edited and published by Percy R. Peters. |
| Louisville | The Herald Tribune | 1937 | | | | NKAA Entry Edited by Charles E. Tucker, William Warley, and Huron Clark. |
| Louisville | Kentuckian | 1870s | | | | NKAA Entry Edited by Horace Morris. |
| Louisville | Kentucky Standard | 1898 | 1912 | | | NKAA Entry Edited by William D. Johnson. |
| Louisville | The Louisville Defender | 1933 | current | Weekly | LCCN sn84025907 OCLC 10644972, 2714260 | Official page NKAA Entry |
| Louisville | Louisville Leader | 1917 | 1953 | | | NKAA Entry Founded and edited by I. Willis Cole. |
| Louisville | Louisville News | 1913 | 1947 | | | NKAA Entry Founded and edited by William Warley; also edited by Lee L. Brown. |
| Louisville | New South | 1894 | 1897 | | | NKAA Entry Founded and edited by James E. Givens. |
| Louisville | The Ohio Falls Express | 1878 or 1879 | 1904 | Weekly | LCCN 2014254011, sn84025830 OCLC 10372187, 2755051, 851189446 | |
| Louisville | Tri-weekly Informer | 1939 | 1939 | | | NKAA Entry Owned and edited by Lucille E. St. Clair, Alice Dunnigan, and M. S. Kimbley. |
| Louisville | The Louisville Weekly Planet | 1872 | 1875 | Weekly | LCCN sn93059170 OCLC 27447816 | NKAA Entry Published by T.F. Cassels and Nathaniel R. Harper. |
| Louisville | Zion's Banner | ? | ? | | | NKAA Entry Edited by Henry Clay Weeden. |
| Mt. Sterling | The Reporter | 1904 | 1915 | | | NKAA Entry Published by John D. and Noah W. Magowan. |
| Owensboro / Louisville | Kentucky Reporter | 1899 | 1953 | Weekly | LCCN sn86069325 OCLC 13922717 ISSN 1943-8923 | Free online archive NKAA Entry Published by Robert T. and George W. Berry. Moved from Owensboro to Louisville in 1912. |
| Owensboro | Sunday Unionist | 1890s | | Weekly (on Sundays) | | |
| Paducah | Baptist Herald | 1873 | 1878 or 1879 | | | NKAA Entry Owned and edited by Rev. George W. Dupee. |
| Paducah | The Kentucky Voice | 1988 | 2010s | Monthly | | NKAA Entry Published by Kathy Robinson. |
| Paducah | Light House / The Light House | 1908 or 1909? | 1937 | Weekly | OCLC 36062051 | NKAA Entry Published and edited by T.A. Lawrence. |
| Paducah | The Negro Citizen | ? | ? | | | NKAA Entry Owned and published by Pleasant A. Nichols. |
| Richmond | Richmond Sentinel | 1909 | 1912 | | | Founded and edited by John Austin Gwynn. |
| Richmond | Hill Topper | 1934 | ? | | | Free online archive |
| Winchester | National Chronicle | 1891 | 1915 | | | NKAA Entry Published by John H. Ayres. |