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Remembering “Old Reliable,” the Black Newspaper That Never Missed a Saturday

Harry Clay Smith’s legacy lives on in Cleveland

Front page of Cleveland Gazette from Saturday, April 6, 1901 — Image courtesy of The Portal to Texas History

On August 25, 1883, Harry Clay Smith, John F. Lightfoot, John Holmes, and James H. Jackson started a Negro newspaper called the Cleveland Gazette. It became one of the longest-running Black papers in the…

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