Boston Guardian
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The Boston Guardian was an African-American newspaper, co-founded by William Monroe Trotter and George W. Forbes in 1901 in Boston and published until the 1950s.
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Owner(s) | William Monroe Trotter, George Forbes |
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Publisher | William Monroe Trotter |
Editor | William Monroe Trotter |
Ceased publication | ca. 1950 |
Headquarters | Boston, Massachusetts |
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In April 2016, an unrelated publisher launched its own Boston Guardian, a neighborhood weekly newspaper serving the Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Downtown, Fenway, South End, and North End/Waterfront districts of Boston, despite criticism that it had appropriated a historic journalistic name for purely commercial reasons.