Los Angeles Wave

{{Short description|African-American newspapers}}

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| name = The Los Angeles Wave

| motto = Largest Black editorial in the Western US

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| caption = Advertisement for The Freeman

| type = Weekly newspaper

| format = Broadsheet

| owners = {{Plainlist |*Los Angeles Wave Publications Group}}

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| foundation = 1912

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| headquarters = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

| circulation = 92,000

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The Los Angeles Wave is an African-American newspaper created by C.Z. Wilson,{{cite web |title=Central News-Southeast Star and Southside Journal Wave (Los Angeles, Calif.) 19??-1991 |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/sn99063214/ |website=Loc.gov |publisher=Library of congress |access-date=27 September 2021}} first published in 1912 in Los Angeles, California.{{cite web |title=Los Angeles Wave |url=https://www.mondotimes.com/1/world/us/5/242/14881 |website=Mondo Times |publisher=Mondo Code LLC. |access-date=26 September 2021}} It has 92,000 subscribers, which is more subscribers that any other black newspaper.{{cite news |last1=Schmidt |first1=Christine |title=Here's the state of African-American media today — and steps it can take going forward |url=https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/03/heres-the-state-of-african-american-media-today-and-steps-it-can-take-going-forward/ |access-date=26 September 2021 |publisher=Nieman Lab - by the President and Fellows of Harvard College |date=1 March 2019}} The newspaper group claims to have circulation of 1.2 million serving diverse neighborhoods in the greater Los Angeles area.{{cite web |title=About Us |url=https://wavepublication.com/about-us/ |website=The Wave |publisher=The Wave publications |access-date=26 September 2021}}

==History==

The paper continues to cover issues that are of interest to African-American readers. They have a section entitled "This Week In Black History" where they cover historic news; especially relevant to Los Angeles readers.{{cite news |title=This Week In Black History |url=http://archive.wavepublication.com/week-black-history-3/ |access-date=27 September 2021 |publisher=Los Angeles Wave |date=27 April 2019}}

The Wave publications are known as the best way to reach African-American readers in the Los Angeles area.{{cite book |last1=Austin |first1=Nefertiti |title=Motherhood So White |date=2019 |publisher=Sourcebooks |location=Naperville, Illinois |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WOySDwAAQBAJ&dq=los+angeles+wave+black+newspapers&pg=PT36 |access-date=27 September 2021}}