"The Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder has documented daily life in the    Twin Cities’ Black community for more than 85 years. But until recently, finding stories from that rich past meant slogging through stacks of old newsprint.

Now, that history can be found with a few clicks. Archives reaching back to 1934 are online now at the Minnesota Historical Society's digital newspaper hub."

Those are the lead sentences in a recent MPR news article which can be read in its entirety here.