March 16th is Black Press Day, an annual observance of the publication of the first Black-owned newspaper in the United States. The “Freedom’s Journal” in New York City was first published on this day in 1827. John Brown Russwurm and Samuel Eli Cornish started the paper to not only share the news for New York’s Black community, but also campaigned to abolish slavery in the South and raise awareness and fight against racial discrimination in the North. The first Black-owned newspaper in California was the “Mirror of the Times, which was published in San Francisco in October 1856. Sacramento would not have an African American published newspaper until 1906. That newspaper was “The Forum,” published at 6th and P Streets at Shiloh Baptist Church by Rev. J. Gordon McPherson. Only one edition was published, however. The next African American newspaper in Sacramento was the “Western Review” in 1914 but ceased publication in 1920. The “Sacramento Outlook” published from 1942 until 1962. The p...