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    The Chavis Chronicles
            Rev. Dr. Frances Draper
                
                    
                        
                            Season 4
                        
                    
                    
                        
                            Episode 410
                        
                    
                
            
            
            Dr. Chavis interviews newspaper publisher Frances Draper of the The Baltimore Afro-American, the longest-running African-American family-owned newspaper in the United States, established in 1892. Chavis and Draper discuss the historical, political and cultural importance of the black press in America and black women in leadership roles.
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