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