[1] The paper published criticisms of racism across industries and featured writers prominent in the Double V campaign initiated by the Pittsburgh Courier, which encouraged African Americans to fight for an end to White supremacy in Europe and in the United States.

Also known as Harlem's "Great White Father," Gale was an avid promoter of Black musical talents such as Ella Fitzgerald and The Ink Spots.

[3] Years after she stopped writing for Voice, Petry broke records as the first African American woman to sell more than a million copies of a book with her novel The Street.

[6] The People's Voice covered a variety of topics, including racism in the city, entertainment, and opinion columns primarily written for the local African American audience of Harlem.

For example, in April 1943, police closed a dance hall called the Savoy Ballroom due to alleged reports of prostitution in the location.

[7] Additionally, in the spring of 1942, a Black Harlem resident, Wallace Armstrong, was killed by a White policeman, so The People's Voice launched an investigation of the police department while Powell organized protests.

Through his own "Soap Box" opinion column, Powell criticized the federal government for putting Japanese-Americans in internment camps, advocated India's struggle for independence from Britain, and spoke out against Fascists' murder of Jewish people in Poland.

[7] While Voice's staff did not mind Powell's use of the paper to promote his career, other Black activists, trade unionists, and politicians found it disturbing.

Frank Crosswaith, socialist politician and trade unionist, disapproved of Powell's use of the paper to campaign for office: "the politics-minded people behind these newspapers," he wrote, need "a disturbed atmosphere" where they "effectively peddle their spurious wares" for their upcoming elections.

[7] Apart from Powell himself, the staff of Voice included open sympathizers of Communism, such writers Marvel Cooke and Doxey Wilkerson, and even the succeeding editor-in-chief Max Yergan.

[15] While Powell's time was occupied in Congressional duties in Washington, Voice also published columns by Communist Party member and councilman Benjamin Davis that advocated for racial and economic justice.

Critics' subsequent scorn of Voice's associations with Communism, combined with Powell firing certain staff members due to redbaiting, contributed to the paper's demise in 1948.