City
Title
Beginning
End
Frequency
Call numbers
Remarks
Asheville
The Asheville Advocate
1987
?
Weekly or biweekly[ 4]
Published by Clarence Benton. Edited by Angelyn Benton and Tony Brown.
Extant through at least 1992.
Asheville
The Church Advocate
1943
1940s[ 5]
Unknown
Asheville
Freedom's Advocate
1879
Weekly
Asheville
The Southern News
1936[ 8] or 1938
1974
Weekly or monthly[ 8]
Published by Eugene Smith.
Asheville
The Southland Advocate
1942
?
Weekly
Published by F.D. Fitzgerald Home.
Attested from at least 1950.[ 10]
Asheville
West Asheville News
1942?
?
Weekly
Published by Walter A. Ward.
Chapel Hill
Black Ink : Black Student Movement, University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
1969[ 13]
2000s[ 12]
Frequency varies[ 13]
Billed as the "Black Student Movement official newspaper".[ 13]
Chapel Hill
The Protean Radish
Radish (1968–1969)[ 15]
1968[ 15]
1970s[ 14]
Weekly[ 14]
Wilmington / Charlotte (1897–)[ 17]
Africo-American Presbyterian
1879
1939 or 1938[ 17]
Weekly
Charlotte
Messenger
1882
Charlotte
The Metrolinian
1971[ 19]
1900s[ 19]
Weekly[ 19]
Charlotte
The Charlotte Post
1918[ 20]
current
Weekly
Charlotte
The Queen City Gazette
1963?
1900s[ 22]
Weekly
Charlotte
The Weekly Journal
1978
1900s[ 24]
Weekly
Edited by Carnell Midgett.[ 24]
Concord
Twin-City Weekly
1972
1900s[ 26]
Weekly
Durham
1919
current
Weekly
Founded by Louis E. Austin .
Known for its outspoken stance against racial injustice and the Ku Klux Klan.
Durham
The Triangle Tribune
1998[ 31]
current
Weekly[ 31]
Fayetteville
The Fayetteville Black Times
1981?
?
Weekly
Attested through at least 1986.
Fayetteville
The Challenger
1987?
1900s[ 33]
Weekly
Published by Sabrina Quatrice Atkinson.
"A people without a voice cannot be heard."[ 33]
A Wilmington edition was also published.[ 33]
Fayetteville
The Educator
1874[ 35]
1875[ 35]
Weekly[ 35]
Fayetteville
The Fayetteville Press
1990
current
Monthly newspaper
Forest City
The Carolina News
1952
1900s[ 37]
Twice monthly
Founded and edited by M.B. Robinson.[ 37]
Goldsboro
The Carolina Enterprise
1880s[ 39]
1883[ 39]
Weekly[ 39]
Greensboro
African World
1971[ 40]
1975[ 40]
Monthly newspaper[ 40]
Greensboro
The Carolina Peacemaker
1967
current
Weekly
Greensboro
The Future Outlook
1941
1972[ 44]
Weekly
Greenville
The 'M' Voice [ 47]
1987[ 47]
1994
Weekly
Published by Jim Rouse Jr.
Harris
The Harris Herald
1946
1949[ 48]
Monthly newspapers
Founded and edited by M.B. Robinson.[ 48]
High Point
The Tribunal Aid
1973
1976[ 50]
Weekly
Laurinburg
The Laurinburg Post
1895[ 52]
?[ 52]
Weekly[ 52]
Lincolnton
The Colored Industrial
1890s[ 53]
1900s[ 53]
Semimonthly newspaper[ 53]
Attested through at least 1901.[ 53]
Littleton
The True Reformer
1899
1909
Weekly
Published by The Afro Union Club.
Maxton
The Maxton Blade
1890
1900s[ 55]
Weekly
Published by M.B. Company.
New Bern
The Peoples' Advocate [ 57]
1886
1880s[ 57]
Weekly
Raleigh
African Expositor
1800s[ 59]
1800s[ 59]
Quarterly[ 59]
Attested from at least 1886.[ 59]
Raleigh
Banner
The Banner-Enterprise (1883[ 60] –)
1881
1800s[ 60]
Weekly[ 60]
Raleigh
The Carolina Tribune
1928
1941? or 1940[ 63]
Weekly
Raleigh
The Carolinian
1941 or 1940[ 65]
current
Twice weekly
Raleigh
Dispatch: A Carolinian Newspaper
1991
Weekly[ 67] or twice weekly
Attested through at least 1993.
Raleigh
Enterprise
1866
1866
Weekly
Raleigh
The Gazette
1800s[ 68]
?[ 68]
Weekly[ 68]
Raleigh
North Carolina Gazette
The Gazette [ 68]
1884 or 1885
1800s[ 69]
Weekly
Raleigh
The Raleigh Independent
1916[ 71]
1900s[ 71]
Weekly[ 71]
Raleigh
Journal of Freedom
1865
1867
Weekly
Edited by Edward P. Brooks.
Raleigh
The Journal of Industry
1879[ 72]
?[ 72]
Weekly[ 72]
Free online archive
Official newspaper of the North Carolina Industrial Association until 1898.
Edited by brothers Charles N. and Oliver Hunter.
Raleigh
North Carolina Republican
1879[ 73]
1880[ 73]
Weekly[ 73]
Raleigh
The Union Reformer
1926?
?
Twice monthly
Published by the General Baptist State Convention of North Carolina.
Raleigh
The Weekly Republican
Republican
1867[ 76]
1867
Weekly[ 76]
Published by Daniel Battle or by Frank S. Pearson, Jr.[ 76]
Rocky Mount
Justice Speaks
1982[ 77]
1990s[ 77]
Monthly newspaper (except August)[ 77]
Salisbury / Charlotte
Star of Zion
1876
current
Weekly
Statesville
Iredell County News
The County News [ 79]
1982? or 1980[ 78]
1997[ 78]
Weekly
Published by Mason McCullough.
Statesville
The County News
1997
current[ 79]
Weekly[ 79]
Statesville
Iredell County Post
The Iredell County Post [ 81]
1980
1980[ 81]
Weekly
Weldon
The N.C. Republican, and Civil Rights Advocate
North Carolina Republican
1884
?
Weekly
Published and edited by D. McD. Lindsey.
Known for its extensive coverage of international news.
Whiteville
The Afro-chronicle
1972[ 85]
?[ 85]
Weekly[ 85]
Attested through at least 1975.[ 85]
Wilmington
Africo-American Presbyterian
1879[ 86]
1938[ 86] or 1939[ 87]
Weekly[ 86]
Published at Charlotte from December 1899 to July 1906.[ 87]
Wilmington
The Banner-Enterprise
1883[ 88]
1800s[ 88]
Weekly[ 88]
Official newspaper of the North Carolina Industrial Association.[ 88]
Published in Wilmington starting March 17, 1884.[ 89]
Free online archive
Wilmington
The Cape Fear Journal
1900s[ 90]
1900s[ 90]
Weekly[ 90]
Wilmington
The Challenger
1988
?
Weekly
Published by Peter Grear and Kathy Davis Grear; edited by Leonard Johnson.
Also published a Fayetteville edition.[ 92]
Wilmington
The Daily Record
1890s[ 93]
?[ 93]
Daily (except Sunday)[ 93]
Large statewide circulation.
Wilmington
1901
current
Weekly
Wilmington
Wilmington Record
1890s[ 96]
?[ 96]
Weekly[ 96]
Winston-Salem
Winston-Salem Chronicle
1974
current
Weekly
Winston-Salem
The People's Spokesman
1940s[ 98]
?[ 98]
Weekly[ 98]
Winston-Salem
The AC Phoenix
1982[ 99]
current
Monthly newspaper[ 99]
Winton
The Baptist Pilot
1887
Weekly
Published by the North Carolina Ministerial Union. Edited by Calvin S. Brown.