*The Sun-Reporter newspaper's founding is celebrated on this date in 1943. This is a weekly newspaper serving 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.
