Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder
{{see also|List of newspapers in Minnesota}}
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| owner = Tracey Williams-Dillard
| founder = Cecil Newman
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| foundation = {{start date and age|1934|08|10}}
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| language = American English
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| headquarters = 3744 Fourth Avenue South
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55409
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| circulation = 9,800
| circulation_date = 2024
| readership = Twin Cities
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The Minnesota Spokesman{{endash}}Recorder is an African-American, English-language newspaper headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota and serves readers in the Twin Cities. Founded in 1934 by Cecil Earle Newman (who remained editor until his death in 1976),{{Cite web|last=Glover|first=Maury|date=2021-11-08|title=Oldest Black newspaper in Minnesota to headline new season of 'Small Business Revolution'|url=https://www.fox9.com/news/oldest-black-newspaper-in-minnesota-to-headline-new-season-of-small-business-revolution|access-date=2021-11-09|website=FOX 9|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-11-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109034308/https://www.fox9.com/news/oldest-black-newspaper-in-minnesota-to-headline-new-season-of-small-business-revolution|url-status=live}} it is the oldest continuously operated black newspaper and longest-lived black-owned business in Minnesota.{{cite web|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn00058014/|title=About Minnesota spokesman-recorder. (Minneapolis, MN) 2000-current|website=Chronicling America, Historic Newspapers|publisher=Library of Congress|access-date=January 28, 2020|archive-date=January 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200112044915/https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn00058014/|url-status=live}}{{cite news|author=Sanna, James|work=Twin Cities Daily Planet|title=Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder turns 75|url=https://www.minnpost.com/perspectives/2008/07/twin-cities-daily-planet-minnesota-spokesman-recorder-turns-75/|date=July 15, 2008|archive-date=January 28, 2020|access-date=January 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200128153050/https://www.minnpost.com/perspectives/2008/07/twin-cities-daily-planet-minnesota-spokesman-recorder-turns-75/|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|last=Mikus|first=Matt|date=30 May 2021|title='Super cool': Minnesota's oldest Black-owned newspaper puts its archive online|work=MPR News|url=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2021/05/30/minnesotas-oldest-blackowned-newspaper-puts-its-archive-online|access-date=14 November 2021}} The current Publisher & CEO of the paper is Newman's granddaughter, Tracey Williams-Dillard.{{Cite news|last=Raihala|first=Ross|date=13 November 2021|title=Streaming show 'Small Business Revolution' shines the light on six Black-owned Twin Cities businesses|work=St. Paul Pioneer Press|url=https://www.twincities.com/2021/11/13/streaming-show-small-business-revolution-shines-the-light-on-six-black-owned-twin-cities-businesses/|access-date=14 November 2021|archive-date=13 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211113185506/https://www.twincities.com/2021/11/13/streaming-show-small-business-revolution-shines-the-light-on-six-black-owned-twin-cities-businesses/|url-status=live}}
History
The newspaper's first issue appeared on August 10, 1934, as the St. Paul Reporter.{{cite web|url=https://aaregistry.org/story/minnesota-spokesman-recorder-a-news-voice-of-black-minnesota/|title=Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder|website=African American Registry|access-date=January 28, 2020|archive-date=January 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200128171025/https://aaregistry.org/story/minnesota-spokesman-recorder-a-news-voice-of-black-minnesota/|url-status=live}} Until 2000, it released weekly alongside The Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, also published and edited by Newman (until his death in 1976).{{cite web|author=Leipold, L. E. |title=Cecil E. Newman, Newspaper Publisher, quoted by The African American Registry |date=2005 | url=http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/1030/Cecil_Newman_a_Minnesota_legend |access-date=2007-01-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930031343/http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/1030/Cecil_Newman_a_Minnesota_legend |archive-date=September 30, 2007 }}{{cite web| author=Burnside,Tina| year=2017|url=http://www.mnopedia.org/place/southside-african-american-community-minneapolis| title=Southside African American Community, Minneapolis|website=www.mnopedia.org|access-date=February 14, 2017}} The newspaper office moved from St. Paul to 3744 Fourth Avenue South, Minneapolis, in 1958.{{cite web|author=Brandt, S|year=2015|url=http://www.startribune.com/spokesman-recorder-building-moving-toward-historic-designation/318154581/|title=Spokesman-Recorder building moving toward historic designation|website=Star Tribune|access-date=July 22, 2015|archive-date=July 25, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150725004008/http://www.startribune.com/spokesman-recorder-building-moving-toward-historic-designation/318154581/|url-status=live}} Under Newman's leadership, the newspaper played a key role in the civil rights movement in Minnesota.
After Newman's death in 1976, his wife Launa took over operation of the papers. In 2000, she merged them into a single title, the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder. In 2007, Newman's granddaughter Tracey Williams-Dillard became CEO of the paper.
The late photographer, filmmaker, writer, and composer Gordon Parks was a photo-journalist for the newspaper.
The newspaper building on Fourth Avenue was declared a historic landmark in 2015 for its association with the civil rights movement in Minnesota.{{cite web|url=http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/hpc/landmarks/WCMS1P-152391|title=Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder Building Individual Landmark|website=Minneapolis.MN.gov|access-date=January 28, 2020}}
The Minnesota Spokesman{{endash}}Recorder is a member of the National Newspaper Association, Amalgamated Publishers, Inc., Metropolitan Economic Development Association, Minnesota Minority Media Coalition, and Minnesota Newspaper Association.{{cite web|url=https://nnpa.org/current-members/|title=Members of the National Newspaper Association|website=NNPA.org|date=18 July 2016|access-date=January 28, 2020|archive-date=24 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191224103630/https://nnpa.org/current-members/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://spokesman-recorder.com/about/|title=About the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder|website=Spokesman-Recorder.com|date=4 October 2010|access-date=January 28, 2020}}
In 2021, the newspaper's archives from 1934 to 1964 were publicly digitized in collaboration with the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Minnesota Historical Society.{{Cite news|date=31 May 2021|title=Minnesota's oldest Black-owned newspaper puts archive online|work=The Associated Press|url=https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-newspapers-7dc4f08cce561865a48b155999f67e40|access-date=14 November 2021|archive-date=14 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211114125850/https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-newspapers-7dc4f08cce561865a48b155999f67e40|url-status=live}}
See also
References
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Further reading
- {{Cite news |last=Shapiro |first=Ari |date=April 8, 2021 |title=How A Minnesota Paper Is Covering The Chauvin Trial From The Black Perspective |language=en |work=National Public Radio |url=https://www.npr.org/2021/04/08/985421813/how-a-minnesota-paper-is-covering-the-chauvin-trial-from-the-black-perspective |access-date=2021-04-17}}
External links
- [https://spokesman-recorder.com/ Official website]
- [https://newspapers.mnhs.org/jsp/browse.jsp?collection_filter=6ff34a0f-54f7-4bc3-861a-d07acb7dba65 1934-1964 archives of the Minneapolis Spokesman, at the Minnesota Digital Newspaper Hub]
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