Reinvigorating The Chicago Defender, a Historic Print Voice

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by: Meribah Knight | New York Times

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. held up a copy of The Chicago Defender, the city’s storied black newspaper, its cover plastered with photos of two dozen black men killed by the police. The headline read, “Wake Up: There’s No Justice for Black Men.”

He implored the audience at his Rainbow/PUSH Coalition headquarters in Chicago to buy a subscription to the paper. “The Sun-Times and Tribune appraises our worth every day,” Mr. Jackson said of Chicago’s two daily newspapers. “And they are not going to have a front like this.”

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