Black Press Expands: T. Thomas Fortune and the New York Age

T. Thomas Fortune relaunched his paper as the New York Age in 1887, building it into the most influential Black newspaper in the nation by the 1890s. Fortune's militant editorials, published under the motto 'No Temporizing,' called for full civil and political equality and denounced Booker T. Washington's accommodationism. By 1890 over 150 Black newspapers were publishing nationwide, forming a critical infrastructure for Black political and cultural life.