An ‘Antidote’ to racism: Harlem breakfast announces AmNews’ new center for Black journalism history

Before an assembled audience of more than 100, on Nov. 9, New York Amsterdam News publisher Elinor Tatum, led a breakfast presentation of the organization reimagining of its headquarters, which sits in a 138-year-old building on Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Harlem. That reimagining, supported by the Mellon Foundation, is intended to become a center devoted to the history of African American journalism while housing New York’s oldest Black newspaper and its charitable and educational foundation. This event, which was sponsored by Trader Joe’s in Harlem announced the AmNews joining the recent reawakening along Harlem’s main commercial artery featured in the Harlem Heritage Tours. A trail of legends For example, the National Urban League nearby on 125th Street relocated from Lower Manhattan in 2025 into a $242 Million building which includes a Civil Rights museum and its offices. Marc Morial, president of the organization remembered how it was first introduced by the AmNews in 1911.

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