Newspaper of Record
The Pittsburgh Courier: An African American Newspaper
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The Pittsburgh Courier was the leading Black newspaper of the last century. No mere journal of African American life, the Courier was a muckraking crusader in the vanguard of the civil rights movement. Its fourteen national editions had a peak circulation of over three hundred fifty thousand.
With accounts from Courier reporters and employees, and scholars like John Hope Franklin, this new documentary reveals the role of the Pittsburgh Courier in reporting and shaping African American history.
Newspaper of Record: The Pittsburgh Courier won a 2009 CINE Golden Eagle for Feature Length Documentary.
"The video will be a most welcome teaching tool for my course History of Black Pittsburgh. It's an outstanding product. Mr. Love made me aware of aspects of the Courier's history that I had not known about." -- Larry Glasco, University of Pittsburgh professor
"Your chronicle of the Pittsburgh Courier is key to black history." -- Juan Williams, journalist and NPR News analyst
