We compiled some important moments in Black US History from 1827, what others would you spotlight? • Freedom’s Journal, the first Black owned newspaper in the United States, is founded by Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm in New York City. • The Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas (which then included Texas) adopted a state constitution that endorsed gradual emancipation. It prohibited the further importation of enslaved people, required enslavers to free children born after the law at age 14, and