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The ''Birmingham Times'' is a weekly
African-American newspaper African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa. ...
published in
Birmingham, Alabama Birmingham ( ) is a city in the north central region of Alabama, United States. It is the county seat of Jefferson County, Alabama, Jefferson County. The population was 200,733 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List ...
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History

The newspaper was founded in 1964 by Jesse Lewis Sr. in order to give the local Black community a greater voice during the civil rights struggle. Lewis wanted to provide an alternative to the '' News and Post-Herald'', which only mentioned Black people in a negative light, and the ''Birmingham World'', which Lewis felt only focused on discrimination. The paper did not own its own printing press and sometimes struggled with getting their printer to print the paper because of its anti-segregation stance. Lewis stated that he wanted the ''Times'' to be "committed to covering the fullness and totality of life, not just the controversial and political." The paper was sold to Lewis's son James in 1998 with Cheryl Eldridge staying on as the editor in chief. In 2019 the paper was sold to The Foundation for Progress in Journalism (FPJ), a non-profit created honoring Lewis, with the aim to promote minorities advancement in journalism.


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* African-American newspapers Weekly newspapers published in the United States Newspapers established in 1964 1964 establishments in Alabama Newspapers published in Alabama {{Alabama-newspaper-stub