The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) is saddened by the passing of one of our icons in the NNPA publishing industry. Publisher Thomas H. Watkins. As a former NNPA Chairman and publisher of the New York Daily Challenge, Afro Times, New American, Jersey City Challenge, Patterson-Passaic Challenge, and the Newark Challenge, Watkins was a decades-long trailblazer who published New York’s first Black-owned daily newspaper.
Dr. Ben Chavis, CEO/President of NNPA stated, “We salute the legacy of Thomas H. Watkins, and we express our sincerest condolences to the Watkins family. May his memory be a blessing to all.”
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