New York Amsterdam News

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Amsterdam News

The Amsterdam News building (center) at 2340 Frederick Douglass Boulevard in central Harlem
Format	Tabloid weekly newspaper
Founder(s)	James Henry Anderson
Publisher	Amnews Corporation
President	Penda Howell (vice president)
Editor	Elinor Tatum
Managing editor	Kristin Fayne-Mulroy
Founded	December 4, 1909; 114 years ago (1909-12-04)
Political alignment	Black nationalism
Language	English
Headquarters	2340 Frederick Douglass Boulevard[1] New York, NY 10027
Circulation	2,000 Mailed 10,000 Newsstand (as of 2022)[2]
ISSN	1059-1818
OCLC number	13416782
Website	amsterdamnews.com

The Amsterdam News (also known as New York Amsterdam News)^[3] is a weekly Black-owned newspaper serving New York City. It is one of the oldest newspapers geared toward African Americans in the United States and has published columns by such figures as W. E. B. Du Bois, Roy Wilkins, and Adam Clayton Powell Jr., and was the first to recognize and publish Malcolm X. It operated from the New York Amsterdam News Building on Seventh Avenue in Harlem from 1916-1938. The building is a National Landmark.