# List of African American newspapers in Colorado

This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in the U.S. State of Colorado. It includes both current and historical newspapers.
Many of the historical newspapers were published in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the number of African Americans in Colorado rose from 1,163 in 1870 to 11,453 in 1910. Colorado's first African American newspaper may have been the Denver Weekly Star, which was in circulation by 1881.
Notable newspapers in Colorado today include the Denver Weekly News, the Denver Urban Spectrum, and the African-American Voice of Colorado Springs.

## Newspapers

| City | Title | Beginning | End | Frequency | Call numbers | Remarks |
| Colorado Springs | African American Voice | 1991 | current | Monthly | OCLC 68567220 | Official site |
| Colorado Springs | Colorado Advance | 1906 or 1914 | 1917 | Weekly | | Edited by E.B. Butler. |
| Colorado Springs | Colored Dispatch | 1900 or 1905 | 1913 or 1906 | Weekly | | Edited by Porter S. Simpson. |
| Colorado Springs | Colorado Dispatch | 1909 | 1912 | Weekly | | |
| Colorado Springs | Eagle | 1912 | 1913 | Weekly | | Full text of one issue available at Colorado College Edited by Mrs. Julia Embry. |
| Colorado Springs | Light | 1908 | 1912 | Weekly | | Edited by Frederick Mason Roberts. |
| Colorado Springs | Colorado Springs Sun | 1897 | 1905 | Weekly | | Founded to fulfill "the need of an independent, reliable organ, wherein the Afro-Americans of this city . . . could find expression of their best thought and material progress." |
| Colorado Springs | Voice of Colorado | 1912? | 1914 | Weekly | | Full text available from Colorado College |
| Colorado Springs | The Colorado Voice | 1948 | ? | Weekly | LCCN sn91052014 OCLC 23091158 | |
| Colorado Springs | The Western Enterprise | 1892 or 1896 | 1912 | Weekly | LCCN sn83025515 OCLC 9542002 | Available online |
| Denver | The African Advocate | 1890 | 1891 | Weekly | LCCN sn91052180 OCLC 23136641 | Remembered for its support of the Back-to-Africa movement. |
| Denver | Afro-American | 1889 | 1890 | Weekly | | |
| Denver | Denver Argus | 1886 | 1888 | Weekly | LCCN sn91052506 OCLC 23122380 | Only one issue of the Argus survives, from 1886. |
| Denver | The Denver Blade | 1960 or 1961 | 1970 | Weekly | LCCN sn84025889 OCLC 10571270, 3838302 | |
| Denver | Denver Chronicle | 1968 | 1970 | Weekly | LCCN sn90051897 OCLC 22615918 | |
| Denver | Denver Dispatch / The Denver Dispatch | 1957 or 1958 | ? | Weekly | LCCN sn90051192 OCLC 21142342 | |
| Denver | Denver Drum / The Drum | 1971 | 1973 | Weekly | LCCN sn88084252, sn90051193 OCLC 21142270, 18487506 | Founded by Jessica Grant. |
| Denver | Colorado Exponent | 1889 | ? | Weekly | | |
| Denver | Denver Exponent | 1892 | 1895 | Weekly | | Absorbed into the Denver Statesman. Edited by A.R. Wilson. |
| Denver (Five Points) | The Five Pointer | 1938 | 1946? | Weekly | | |
| Denver | Denver Independent | 1902 or 1910 | 1913 | Weekly | | Founded by Thomas Campbell. In 1916 the Star announced that “[t]he papers formerly known as The Statesman and The Independent have been merged into The Star.” |
| Denver | The Denver Inquirer | 1952 or 1953 | 1954 or 1953 | Weekly | LCCN sn87062123 OCLC 15347222 | Generally listed as an African American newspaper. Billed itself as "non-racial, non-political, non-sectarian - Denver's Picture Weekly." |
| Denver | The Colorado Journal | 1948 | ? | Weekly | LCCN sn89052182 OCLC 19764373 | |
| Denver (Park Hill) | Denver East News | 1965 | ? | Weekly | OCLC 64683674 | Attested through 1970. |
| Denver | Denver Weekly News | 1971 | current | Weekly | LCCN sn90051216 OCLC 6352579 | Official site |
| Denver | Denver Weekly Star / The Denver Star | 1879 or 1881 | 1883 | Weekly | LCCN sn91052508 OCLC 23122358 | Founded by Lewis Price. "[A]mong the first African-American newspapers published west of the Mississippi River." Only one issue survives, but many editorials by Henry O. Wagoner from 1882–1883 were reprinted in The Christian Recorder, including his denunciation of the Supreme Court's decision in the 1883 Civil Rights Cases. |
| Denver | The Denver Star (1913–1963) / Franklin's Paper The Denver Star (1912–1913) | 1912 or 1913 | 1963 | Weekly | LCCN 2018218636, sn84025887, sn94081616 OCLC 1028638479, 10571156, 32229784 ISSN 2577-2384, 2577-2376 | Available online A continuation of The Statesman (est. 1880s). Known from November 23, 1912 to March 15, 1913 as Franklin's Paper The Denver Star, and then simply The Denver Star. Sold by Chester Arthur Franklin in 1913 to the Denver Independent Publishing Company, which ran the paper until the end in 1963. |
| Denver | The Colorado Statesman | 1895 | 1961 | Weekly | LCCN sn8325514 OCLC 9541391, 23200610, 2636997, 8956794 | Founded by Joseph D.D. Rivers. Rivers had also previously founded a different weekly called The Statesman, which was later known as The Denver Star. Distinct from a white weekly that was later also called The Colorado Statesman (1898–2017), but until the 1970s was named the Colorado Democrat. |
| Denver | The Statesman / The Statesman-Exponent (1895–1896) / Franklin's Paper The Statesman (1906–1912) | 1885 or 1888 or 1889 | 1912 | Weekly | | Available online First owned by Joseph D.D. Rivers. Taken over by Edwin Henry Hackley, Colorado's first Black attorney, in 1892, and sold to George F. Franklin in 1898. Briefly renamed the Statesman-Exponent in 1895–1896 following the acquisition of the Denver Exponent. Renamed Franklin's Paper The Statesman in 1906, to avoid confusion with The Colorado Statesman. Became the Denver Star, which was initially known as Franklin's Paper The Denver Star, in 1912. |
| Denver | Times Speaker | 1900s | ? | Twice weekly | | In circulation in 1902. |
| Denver / Aurora | Denver Urban Spectrum | 1987 | current | Monthly | ISSN 1085-634X LCCN sn95005637 OCLC 23866026 | Official site Founded by Rosalind J. Harris. "Founded in 1987, the Denver Urban Spectrum (DUS) newspaper covers news and information for and about people of color." |
| La Junta | Megaphone | 1913 | 1915 | Weekly | | Founded by Thomas L. Cate. |
| Pueblo | Rocky Mountain Advocate | 1898 | 1899 | Weekly | | Edited by William Jeltz |
| Pueblo | The Western Ideal | 1919 or 1923 | 1960 | Weekly | LCCN sn94081602, sn93062831 OCLC 32229736, 27322066 | Noted as a supporter of the 1940 Green Book. |
| Pueblo | Religious World | 1906? | 1908 | Weekly | | |
| Pueblo | Rising Sun | 1919 | 1921 or 1923 | Weekly | | Founded by Thomas L. Cate, formerly of the La Junta Megaphone, upon his return from serving in World War I. Official local organ of the International Order of Twelve Knights and Daughters of Tabor. May have subsequently become the Western Ideal after purchase by W.J. Jackson. |
| Pueblo | Colorado Times | 1904 | 1912 | Weekly | | Founded by M.B. Brooks. |
| Pueblo | Times | 1894 | 1895 | Weekly | | Edited by O.L. Boyd. |
| Pueblo | Tribune | 1898 | 1900 | Weekly | | |
| Pueblo | Tribune-Press | 1895 | 1904 | Weekly | | Edited by O.L. Boyd. |
| Trinidad | Leader | 1911 | 1915 or 1912 | Weekly | | |