The New York Amsterdam News is a 98-year-old Harlem-based weekly newspaper that reaches the African-American community. Elinor Tatum inherited the jobs of editor-in-chief and publisher from her father after graduating from New York University's graduate program in journalism.
PRWeek: What is the importance of black newspapers to the African-American community?
Elinor Tatum: Since their inception, black newspapers have been the voice of the black community, where that community did not have a voice before.
The first black paper had an editorial that ...