City News (Newark, N.J.)
Dates
- 1990 - 2003
Abstract
City News was a newspaper based in Plainfield, focused on the African American experience in "The Newark metropolitan area". Their tagline was "serving the African Americna community since 1983."
Scope and Contents
Articles in City News spanned the range of items in Newark including politics, human interest, religion, sports and classified. The range of issues gives a good overview of African American life in Newark in the 1990s and 2000s.
Biographical / Historical
The publisher of City News was Henry C. Johnson, PhD (b. 1946). He lived in Plainfield with his wife Jan Edgenton Johnson, who co-founded the newspaper, and his children. Henry and Jan were married in Missouri in 1968.
Extent
552.74 Gigabytes (549 objects [7865 files] )
Processing Information
All issues owned by the library were digitized. Files are arranged by year and date. Pages were scanned at 300 dpi tiff.
- https://catalog.npl.org/search~S1?/tcity+news/tcity+news/1%2C2%2C2%2CB/frameset&FF=tcity+news+newark+n+j&1%2C1%2C
Repository Details
Part of the Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library Repository
3rd Floor
Newark Public Library
5 Washington St.
Newark NJ 07102 United States
973-733-7775
njreference@npl.org