The New York Amsterdam News, a pillar of the Black press, is adapting to a shifting media environment by launching a preservation project. Publisher Elinor Tatum highlights the paper's commitment to its community and its historical significance, referencing its past, including coverage of pivotal events like The Central Park Five case. The project aims to convert the newsroom into a public education and gathering space, establishing it as a historic landmark that honors the contributions of the Black press, while ensuring the paper's survival in difficult financial times.
We have been telling the stories other people will not tell, through our lens, through the lens of our community.
By some miracle, the Tatum family has kept this building and paid for all its expenses all these years, but now we're at a breaking point.
The goal is to make the Harlem building a historic landmark that celebrates the Amsterdam News' work and the role of the Black press.
As the paper ends one chapter and begins the next, Tatum sees the project as a way to preserve all of that and to tell the story of Black New York at the same time.
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