The Rise and Fall of the Associated Negro Press: Claude Barnett’s Pan-African News and the Jim Crow Paradox

Gerald Horne ’70 writes about Claude Barnett, the founder of the Associated Negro Press, who, as an activist in journalism, viewed the African-American struggle in global terms. The Rise and Fall of the Associated Negro Press (University of Illinois Press) shows how  Barnett’s activism ultimately became his undoing as the ANP collapsed when the mainstream press began covering black issues and hiring black reporters.