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The article reports on the 95th anniversary celebration of "Amsterdam News." After working at a variety of jobs including bellhopping and a stint in the Navy, Anderson settled in New York and decided to try his hand at publishing a newspaper for the Black constituency. At the time only about 50 Black newspapers were being published in the United States. Using his wife's 5-x 4-foot dressmaker's table in the basement of his home at 135 W. 65th Street, Anderson named and produced his paper for the Amsterdam neighborhood where he lived. The strike, among the first open labor disputes between Black owners and Black employees in American history, resulted in the Amsterdam News becoming the first completely unionized Black newspaper.

Comments on `The Christian Science Monitor' on the 90th anniversary of its first issue, which was published on November 25, 1908. The goal of enlightenment that the paper was founded on; How the `Monitor' has impacted the history of the 20th century; The path of service that the paper follows; The audience that the `Monitor' seeks to serve; What it offers that other newspapers do not have.