A Florida Weekly’s Quest to Keep Local News Alive

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In the 1980's, Lyn Johnson’s father Cleveland needed a bodyguard. Over a decade had passed since he’d founded The Weekly Challenger, a newspaper that printed positive stories about the African-American community in the Tampa Bay area. Community members waited in lines for trucks to deliver the paper, said Lyn Johnson, but still her father faced violence from outside forces.

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