The history of the Buffalo Criterion Newspaper

Frank Merriweather III was practically born with ink on his fingertips.

"It’s a beautiful history," said Merriweather. "I look because I said out of out of all things you know why would my grandparents start a newspaper?"

His grandparents were visionaries. Frank and Carmelita Merriweather opened a printing business in 1923, and a couple of years later began the Buffalo Criterion Newspaper. For nearly a century now, the family business has been continuously documenting the stories from the perspective of Buffalo’s Black community.

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