The Associated Negro Press (ANP) was an American news service founded in 1919 in Chicago, Illinois by Claude Albert Barnett.
The ANP had correspondents, writers, reporters in all major centers of the black population in the United States of America.
It supplied news stories, opinions, columns, feature essays, book and movie reviews, critical and comprehensive coverage of events, personalities, and institutions relevant to black Americans.
[3] It is stated in The Rise & Fall of the Negro Press by Gerald Horne that from 1865 to 1900 approximately 12,000 newspapers catering to African Americans were in existence.
In the summer of 1964 the ANP went out of business due to several factors, as documented by Gerald Horne in his book titled The Rise & Fall of the Associated Negro Press.
[8] As integration took hold, Barnett no longer had a captive African American market in the news gathering business.
Mainstream media started to hire African American writers and journalists; and to report on Jim Crow issues.
The ANP's Chicago office had a staff of six employees, and 72 correspondents in strategic locations in the United States of America, Africa, Europe, and the African Diaspora for gathering news stories and reports.