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February 8, 2026

Robert C. Maynard (Ep. 11, 2026 re-broadcast)

By: John L. Hanson

On this week’s In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson presents an interview recorded in 1985 with Robert C. Maynard, a newspaper journalist and editor who became the first African American owner of a major daily newspaper, The Oakland Tribune. Maynard was also a co-founder of The Institute For Journalism Education, a non-profit whose aim was to expand opportunities for minority journalists at the nation’s newspapers. Maynard died August 17, 1993.