View source for Negro World

{{Short description|Defunct American newspaper}}
{{Distinguish|text = [[Negro World (Knoxville)]], the Tennessee newspaper}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2018}}{{italic title}}
[[File:NegroWorld-July31-1920.jpg|thumb|Cover of ''Negro World'', July 31, 1920]]
'''''Negro World''''' was{{when|date=March 2023}} the newspaper of the [[Marcus Garvey]]'s [[Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League]] (UNIA). Founded by Garvey and [[Amy Ashwood Garvey]], the newspaper was published weekly in [[Harlem]], and distributed internationally to the UNIA's chapters in more than forty countries.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9k5GDwAAQBAJ&q=%22negro+world+%22+|title=Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom|last=Blain|first=Keisha N.|date=2018|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|isbn=978-0-8122-4988-0|language=en}}</ref> Distributed weekly, at its peak, the ''Negro World'' reached a circulation of 200,000.<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XP48QWTmjyUC&q=%22negro+world+%22+encyclopedia+newspaper&pg=PA231|title=Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance|last=West|first=Sandra|date=2003|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-1-4381-3017-0|editor-last=Aberjhani|language=en|chapter=Negro World}}</ref>

Notable editors included Marcus Garvey, [[Timothy Thomas Fortune|T. Thomas Fortune]],<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6gbQHxb_P0QC&q=%22negro+world+%22+encyclopedia+newspaper&pg=PA234|title=Encyclopedia of African American History|date=2009|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|isbn=978-0-19-516779-5|editor-last=Finkelman|editor-first=Paul|language=en|chapter=Negro World}}</ref> [[William H. Ferris]],<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NgIYlUbaoAoC&q=%22negro+world+%22+encyclopedia+newspaper&pg=PA881|title=Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance: K-Y|last1=Wintz|first1=Cary D.|last2=Finkelman|first2=Paul|date=2004|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-57958-458-0|language=en}}</ref> [[Wilfred Adolphus Domingo|W.A. Domingo]] and [[Amy Jacques Garvey]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9j3qCQAAQBAJ&q=%22negro+world%22+editor&pg=PA65|title=The Veiled Garvey: The Life and Times of Amy Jacques Garvey|last=Taylor|first=Ula Yvette|author-link=Ula Taylor|date=2003-10-16|publisher=Univ of North Carolina Press|isbn=978-0-8078-6229-2|language=en}}</ref>

==Background==
Garvey founded the UNIA in July 1914, and within the organization's first few years had started publishing ''Negro World''.<ref name=racefirst>{{cite book|author=Tony Martin|author-link=Tony Martin (professor)|title=Race First: The Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VhsWRMMBNdIC&pg=PA10|access-date=April 30, 2013|year=1976|publisher=The Majority Press|isbn=978-0-912469-23-2|pages=10–14}}</ref>

Monthly, ''Negro World'' distributed more copies than ''[[The Messenger (magazine)|The Messenger]]'', ''[[The Crisis]]'' and ''[[Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life|Opportunity]]'' (other important African-American publications). Colonial rulers banned its sales and even possession in their territories, including both [[British Empire]] and [[French colonial empire]] possessions.<ref name=racefirst/><ref name="Garvey1995">{{cite book|author=Marcus Garvey|title=Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers: June 1921 – December 1922. Africa for the Africans|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ka3gefc7Ec8C|access-date=April 30, 2013|year=1995|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-20211-5|page=xlviii}}</ref> Distribution in foreign countries was conducted through black seamen who would smuggle the paper into such areas.

''Negro World'' ceased publication in 1933.

==Content==
For a nickel, readers received a front-page editorial by Garvey, along with poetry and articles of international interest to people of [[African diaspora|African ancestry]]. Under the editorship of [[Amy Jacques Garvey]] the paper featured a full page called "Our Women and What They Think".

''Negro World'' also played an important part in the [[Harlem Renaissance]] <!-- not synonymous (or [[Jazz Age]])--> of the 1920s. The paper was a focal point for publication on the arts and African-American culture, including poetry,<ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance. Vol. 1: A – J|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z6Cs0Y1pvRAC&pg=PA33|access-date=April 30, 2013|date=January 1, 2004|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-57958-457-3|page=33}}</ref> commentary on theatre and music, and regular book reviews. Romeo Lionel Dougherty, a prominent figure of the [[Jazz Age]], began writing for ''Negro World'' in 1922.<ref>Tony Martin, ''Literary Garveyism: Garvey, Black Arts and the Harlem Renaissance'', 1983.</ref>

==Contributors==
Notable editors and contributors to ''Negro World'' included:

{{colbegin|colwidth=20em}}
* [[Duse Mohamed Ali]]
* [[John Edward Bruce]]
* [[Wilfred Adolphus Domingo]]
* [[William Henry Ferris]]
* [[Timothy Thomas Fortune]]
* [[William Henderson Franklin]]<ref name="PennIrvineGarland">{{Cite book |last=Penn |first=Irvine Garland |url=http://archive.org/details/afroamericanpre00penngoog |title=The Afro-American Press and Its Editors |date=1891 |publisher=Willey & Co. |others=unknown library |location=Springfield, Mass. |pages=347–348 |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref>
* [[Amy Ashwood Garvey]]
* [[Amy Jacques Garvey]]
* [[Hubert Henry Harrison]]
* [[Samuel Alfred Haynes]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Winston James|title=Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth-century America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iSAjTDHiC4MC&pg=PA67|access-date=April 30, 2013|year=1998|publisher=Verso|isbn=978-1-85984-140-2|page=67}}</ref>
* [[Zora Neale Hurston]]
* [[John G. Jackson (writer)|John G. Jackson]]
* [[Robert Lincoln Poston]]
* [[Andy Razaf]]
* [[Joel Augustus Rogers]]
* [[Arthur Schomburg]]
* [[William Alexander Stephenson]]
* [[Eric D. Walrond|Eric Walrond]]
* [[Carter Godwin Woodson]]
{{colend}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

{{African American press}}

[[Category:1918 establishments in New York (state)]]
[[Category:1933 disestablishments in New York (state)]]
[[Category:Defunct weekly newspapers]]
[[Category:Defunct African-American newspapers]]
[[Category:African-American history between emancipation and the civil rights movement]]
[[Category:Defunct newspapers published in New York City]]
[[Category:Newspapers established in 1918]]
[[Category:Publications disestablished in 1933]]
[[Category:Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League]]
[[Category:African-American newspapers published in New York (state)]]