This Week in Black History

This week in Black History, April 30, 1983

Pioneering journalist Bob Maynard buys the Oakland Tribune, becoming the nation’s first Black owner of a metropolitan newspaper. That accomplishment, coupled with his passion for training minority journalists, made him known to some as the “Jackie Robinson of Publishing.”

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