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February 16, 2025

Robert C. Maynard (Ep. 12, 2025)

By: John L. Hanson

This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a tribute to pioneering journalist the late Robert C. Maynard, newspaper publisher, editor and former owner of the Oakland Tribune newspaper, the first African American to own a major daily newspaper, with an interview recorded in 1985. Maynard died in August 1993.