*On this date, 2015, it was announced that Lotus Press would merge with Broadside Press, forming the new Broadside Lotus Press.
Dudley Randall founded this Black-owned literature publisher in 1965 in Detroit, and Naomi Long Madgett's Lotus Press was founded in Detroit in 1972. These two writers and publishers created the oldest Black-owned presses in the United States still in operation.
