The ''Daily Negro Times'' was an

African American newspaper African or Africans may refer to: * Anything from or pertaining to the continent of Africa: ** People who are native to Africa, descendants of natives of Africa, or individuals who trace their ancestry to indigenous inhabitants of Africa *** List ...

published in

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Marcus Garvey Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. (17 August 188710 June 1940) was a Jamaican political activist. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) (commonly known a ...

in 1922. Garvey bought a second hand newspaper press on which to print the paper and equipped the editorial office with a

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, probably the first African American newspaper to have such a facility. Garvey appointed himself executive editor and his team consisted of: *

Timothy Thomas Fortune Timothy Thomas Fortune (October 3, 1856June 2, 1928) was an American orator, civil rights leader, journalist, writer, editor and publisher. He was the highly influential editor of the nation's leading black newspaper ''The New York Age'' and was t ...

, editor * Ulysses S. Poston, managing editor * William Alexander Stephenson, news editor *

Joel Augustus Rogers Joel Augustus Rogers (September 6, 1880 – March 26, 1966) was a Jamaican-American author, journalist, and amateur historian who focused on the history of Africa; as well as the African diaspora. After settling in the United States in 1906, he ...

news sub-editor *

John Edward Bruce John Edward Bruce, also known as Bruce Grit or J. E. Bruce-Grit (February 22, 1856 – August 7, 1924), was an American journalist, historian, writer, orator, civil rights activist and Pan Africanism, Pan-African nationalist. He was born a slav ...

, journalist * Hucheshwar Gurusidha Mudgal, journalist * Robert Lincoln Poston, journalist

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