Since 2007 we have welcomed you to the Texas Informer’s website. In May of 1995 the Cherokee Informer’s newspaper publication founded by Walter Lee and Maxine Session, began sharing positive news about the people of the East Texas African American communities.
In 2007 the “Cherokee Informer” became the Texas Informer and Michael Ousley took our website live. We shared monthly newspaper publications along with prior publications via the world wide web with thousands of monthly visitors from all over the world.
Our publication followed literally our community from the cradle, births to the grave, obituaries. Contributions from African Americans to our daily walk of life recorded to not only show their contributions, but also to humanize our communities very existence.
Our last printed publication was in 2022. We have since lost our co-publisher, Walter Lee Session, but have maintained our website to maintain our own modest contribution of the record of African American history of the people and events of East Texas.
Publications are available for your personal use in our Archives 1995 – 2022 navigation. Also, we are currently posting “Announcements” for events. Check back with us for additional updates and stories. ----- Michael Ousley, Webmaster
Pictured the Texas Historical Commission marker placed January 18, 2016 detailing the 1910 Slocum Massacre. Read the history of the placement in the February 2016 Texas Informer.
