Negro World
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Negro World was a weekly newspaper established during January 1918 in New York City, as the voice of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, an organization founded by Marcus Garvey in 1914. For a nickel readers received a front page editorial by Garvey, poetry, and articles of international interest to people of African ancestry. The paper had a distribution of upwards of five hundred thousand copies weekly at its peak which included both subscribers and newspaper purchasers. Colonial rulers banned its sales and even possession in their territories. Distribution in foreign countries was conducted through seamen who would smuggle the paper into such areas.
It ceased publication in 1933.
Editors and contributors to the Negro World included:
- Zora Neale Hurston,
- Duse Mohamed Ali,
- Amy Jacques Garvey,
- Carter Godwin Woodson,
- W. A. Domingo,
- Hubert Henry Harrison,
- Timothy Thomas Fortune,
- Arthur Schomburg,
- John Edward Bruce,
- William Henry Ferris,
- Norton G. G. Thomas, and
- Eric D. Walrond.
