The Bay State Banner is a weekly newspaper primarily geared toward the readership interests of the African-American community in Boston, Massachusetts.

Notable journalists who have worked at The Bay State Banner include PBS host Gwen Ifill and NPR commentator Robin Washington.

[9] Miller hoped to expose what he viewed as Boston's unique form of racism, and subvert the control white Irish Catholics held over both the city and the media at the time.

[7] Miller frequently cited his wife, Sandra Casagrand, as an important business partner who helped him navigate the paper through the "roughest seas".

[3] In the last edition of the paper before this suspension, Miller summarized that he was looking for investors in order to resume publication, but that the Banner's free-distribution of 30,000 copies was not sustainable in the face of falling ad revenue.

[17][18] On March 1, 2023, the Banner announced the sale of the publication from Miller, then aged 88, to Ron Mitchell, a former videojournalist at WBZ-TV, and André Stark, a filmmaker.

[20] Also announced was an expanded coverage area for the Banner, with four editions: Boston, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and northern New England.

[12] The Banner is also available online, and the publication's physical archives reportedly contain "about 36 boxes of Bay State material" consisting of more than 60,000 photographs.