African-American Newspaper: Freedom's Journal - America's First African-American NewspaperPDF Files616 Pages, all 103 issues of Freedom's Journal ever published, America's First African-American newspaper. Plus 860 pages of history of the African-American Press from 1800 to 1920."Freedom's Journal," was the first newspaper published by blacks in the United States. It was published weekly in New York City from March 16, 1827 to March 28, 1829. The newspaper was founded in 1827, the same year that