{"id":5037,"date":"2021-02-19T15:44:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T15:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/?p=5037"},"modified":"2021-02-19T15:51:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T15:51:13","slug":"freedom-journalist-john-russwurm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/?p=5037","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Journalist John Russwurm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

John Russwurm a man ahead of his time. understood how the powerful used media to create and perpetuate destructive stereotypes of the powerless.\u00a0He wanted to challenge the world by creating a nee brad of media, African American journalism.<\/p>\n

Russwurm helped to change the terms on race in America, he not a native of America, but from Jamaica.<\/p>\n

As a kid he moved to Maine and attended Bowdoin College. In 1826 Russwurm became only the second African American in the U.S. to earn a college degree. His speech was about the Haitian Revolution.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

On March 16, 1827, Samuel Cornish, a friend from New York, and Russwurm published the first issue of\u00a0Freedom\u2019s Journal<\/em><\/a>. It gave African Americans pride in their communities. It included\u00a0mini-biographies, poetry, sermons and birth, death and marriage announcements.<\/p>\n

Russwurm died in Liberia in 1851. By then nearly 30 African American newspapers existed in the United States, all devoted to ending slavery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Russwurm a man ahead of his time. understood how the powerful used media to create and perpetuate destructive stereotypes of the powerless.\u00a0He wanted to challenge the world by creating a nee brad of media, African American journalism. Russwurm helped to change the terms on race in America, he not a native of America, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,47],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[770],"class_list":{"0":"post-5037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education","8":"category-get-inspired"},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t