The Washington Sun is a weekly local newspaper based in Washington DC, USA. It is one of the oldest minority owned newspapers in the USA with a distribution and subscription readership of 55,000, covering the Washington D.C. Metropolitan area.

Founded in the mid 1960s, the Washington Sun was purchased by Joseph C. Cooke in 1968. Cooke became both editor and publisher. Under his editorship the paper sought to put a positive light on local and national developments affecting the African American

African American

African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...

community while declining to run cigarette and alcohol advertising. Following his death in 2008, ownership of the paper passed to his family.