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Fri, 07.09.1943

The Sun Reporter Newspaper Begins Publication

*The Sun-Reporter newspaper's founding is celebrated on this date in 1943. This weekly newspaper serves the Black community of San Francisco. The Sun-Reporter owns the region's two other Black weeklies, the California Voice and the Metro Reporter.  

When Carlton Benjamin Goodlett, the paper's longtime owner, died in 1997, Amelia Ashley-Ward became the paper's proprietor.  Notable journalists associated with the paper include Thomas C. Fleming.  

New Poem Each Day

Poetry Corner

I Life goes by moving, Up and down a chain of moods Wanting what’s nothing. II My soul is the wind Dashing down fields of Autumn: O, too swift... ENCHANTMENT by Lewis Grandison Alexander
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