A paper for a city with its own economy

The Atlanta Daily World grew out of Scott's Atlanta World, and in 1932 it became a daily, adding "Daily" to its title. That made it the first Black daily newspaper in the United States in the 20th century — a paper published every day, for a readership that the city's white papers ignored.

What it did

Beyond the news, the paper was an economic instrument. PBS's Black Press profile notes that it encouraged African Americans to patronize Black-owned businesses, and that it was one of the first papers to report on what was then called black-on-black crime — a subject the mainstream press treated as either invisible or sensational.

Still publishing

The Atlanta Daily World still publishes today, which makes it one of the few Black newspapers in the country to survive the collapse of the print business that closed so many of its peers.