I believe this collection has been around for several years now. It was introduced with big fanfare, but did not quite live up to the hype. Possibly because it shows a huge date range, but many of the papers are pretty recent, and in the list many are still "forthcoming".

I would be very interested to see a side by side comparison of this product and Genealogybank; I think you will see many of the same papers.

College libraries are where you will most likely gain access to this database. If you cut & paste the link below, you can see a list of the papers in the collection.

http://titlelist.readex.com/source/servlet/index.html?operation=African%20American%20Newspapers,%201827-1998