The Negro Leader, founded Oct. 1909 in Uniontown, wasn’t the first African-American owned publication in the Black Belt, or even in Perry County. The Marion Journal Reporter, one of the earliest, was in publication at least as far back as 1871 under the leadership of editor Wm. B. Patterson, and possibly even before that. However,... Read More

by: John Allan Clark When I first came across the name Horace Sprott, it wasn’t on a monument on the courthouse square or a historic marker out on Highway 14 east, although maybe it should have been. I wouldn’t have known his name if it hadn’t been for a YouTube playlist. Which is a shame, considering... Read More