"the crisis", the official magazine of the naacp, was founded in 1910. it describes itself as inheriting the tradition of advocacy journalism from "freedom's journal", , which began in 1827 as "the first african-american owned and operated newspaper published in the united states." "the suffragist" newspaper, founded in 1913 by the congressional union for woman suffrage, promoted the agenda of the national woman's party and was considered the only female political newspaper at the time.