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By: Jonathan HunterPosted at 11:39 AM, Feb 27, 2024
BALTIMORE — The AFRO American Newspaper is one of the oldest Black newspapers in the country. The paper has been providing news to the Black community for more than 130 years.
As a result, the paper has a very extensive archive.
Deyane Moses spends her days going through Black History through the AFRO American Newspapers’ archives.
She’s a curator for Afro Charities, a nonprofit partner to the AFRO.
“You can find photographs. On the back of every photograph, there’s usually the tag line and the cuts. And it gives us identifying information, like the year and the photographer who took the photographs," said Moses.
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The archives are being stored, temporarily, at a site provided by the Maryland State Archives.
"These volumes house the actual newspaper that the Afro printed. It’s size and it’s actual paper,” Moses said.