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Negro World was the newspaper of the Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA). Founded by Garvey and Amy Ashwood Garvey, the newspaper was published weekly in Harlem, and distributed internationally to the UNIA's chapters in more than forty countries. Distributed weekly, at its peak, the Negro World reached a circulation of 200,000.
Notable editors included Marcus Garvey, T. Thomas Fortune, (2025). 9780195167795, Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 9780195167795 William H. Ferris, W.A. Domingo and Amy Jacques Garvey.
Monthly, Negro World distributed more copies than The Messenger, The Crisis and (other important African-American publications). Colonial rulers banned its sales and even possession in their territories, including both British Empire and French colonial empire possessions. Distribution in foreign countries was conducted through black seamen who would smuggle the paper into such areas.
Negro World ceased publication in 1933.
Negro World also played an important part in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. The paper was a focal point for publication on the arts and African-American culture, including poetry, commentary on theatre and music, and regular book reviews. Romeo Lionel Dougherty, a prominent figure of the Jazz Age, began writing for Negro World in 1922.Tony Martin, Literary Garveyism: Garvey, Black Arts and the Harlem Renaissance, 1983.
Content
For a nickel, readers received a front-page editorial by Garvey, along with poetry and articles of international interest to people of African diaspora. Under the editorship of Amy Jacques Garvey the paper featured a full page called "Our Women and What They Think".
Contributors
Notable editors and contributors to Negro World included:
Categories: 1918 Establishments In New York, 1933 Disestablishments In New York, Defunct Weekly Newspapers, Defunct African-american Newspapers, Defunct Newspapers Published In New York City, Newspapers Established In 1918, Publications Disestablished In 1933, African-american Newspapers Published In New York
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