A Black newspaper in the former capital of the Confederacy is closing

The Richmond Free Press cited declining advertising in announcing the end of its three-decade run in Virginia’s capital city

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The Richmond Free Press, a Black-owned weekly newspaper that has served Virginia’s capital city for more than three decades, announced Thursday that it is ceasing publication, citing a collapse in advertising revenue that made the paper unsustainable.

“We know for sure that we do not have the advertising support to continue,” publisher Jean Patterson Boone wrote in a farewell message on Instagram. “All goodbyes are not forever. And this may be. Or not.”

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