Negro World was a weekly newspaper, established in January 1918 in New York City, which served as the voice of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, an organization founded by Marcus Garvey in 1914. For a nickel, readers received a front page editorial by Garvey, along with poetry and articles of international interest to people of African ancestry. Under the editorship of Amy Jacques Garvey, the paper featured a full page called, "Our Women and What They Think".
The paper had a distribution of upwards of five hundred thousand copies weekly at its peak, which included both subscribers and newspaper purchasers. Colonial rulers banned its sales and even possession in their territories. Distribution in foreign countries was conducted through black seamen who would smuggle the paper into such areas. It ceased publication in 1933.
Editors and contributors to the Negro World included:
- Zora Neale Hurston,
- Duse Mohamed Ali,
- Amy Ashwood Garvey,
- Amy Jacques Garvey,
- Carter Godwin Woodson,
- W. A. Domingo,
- Hubert Henry Harrison,
- Timothy Thomas Fortune,
- Arthur Schomburg,
- John G. Jackson
- John Edward Bruce,
- William Henry Ferris,
- Rev. George Emonei Carter,
- Norton G. G. Thomas, and
- Eric Walrond.
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“I maintain that I have been a Negro three times—a Negro baby, a Negro girl and a Negro woman. Still, if you have received no clear cut impression of what the Negro in America is like, then you are in the same place with me. There is no The Negro here. Our lives are so diversified, internal attitudes so varied, appearances and capabilities so different, that there is no possible classification so catholic that it will cover us all, except My people! My people!”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
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