[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 31 (Thursday, February 18, 2021)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E142-E143]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF THE ARIZONA INFORMANT

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                           HON. RUBEN GALLEGO

                               of arizona

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, February 18, 2021

  Mr. GALLEGO. Madam Speaker, I rise today to celebrate the Arizona 
Informant, a newspaper which for the past fifty years has reported on 
news that directly impacts the Black community across the Phoenix 
Valley. The Arizona Informant now reaches 100,000 weekly readers and is 
the only Black owned weekly newspaper in our state.
  The Arizona Informant started with an investment of just $1 in 1971 
by brothers, Clovis Campbell Sr. and Charles Campbell, who noticed 
there was a lack of coverage on issues affecting the Black community in 
Arizona. Clovis, the first Black Arizona State Senator, and Charles, an 
educator with a doctorate in higher education administration, were 
pillars of the Black community in Phoenix whose impact across the 
Valley is still felt today.
  Still family owned and operated, the Arizona Informant has stayed 
true to its mission of bringing to the forefront stories of 
accomplishment and achievement in the Black community. The protests 
that erupted after George Floyd last summer and the ongoing struggle 
for racial justice have shown that the work of the Arizona Informant is 
needed now as much, if not more, than it was fifty years ago.
  As we continue to celebrate Black History Month, I am proud to be 
able to recognize and uplift the Arizona Informant. I wish to 
congratulate the Arizona Informant on fifty years of `Recording Black 
History Every Week' and thank them for their continued work.

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