The Colored American Magazine  was the first  American  monthly publication that covered African-American culture. The magazine ran from May 1900 to November 1909. It was initially published out of  Boston  by the Colored Co-Operative Publishing Company, and from 1904, forward, by Moore Publishing and Printing Company of New York.  Pauline Hopkins , its most prolific writer from the beginning, sat on the board as a shareholder, was editor from 1902 to 1904, though her name was not on the  masthead  until 1903. Hopkins  was a journalist, playwright, historian, and literary. In 1904,  Booker T. Washington , in a hostile takeover, purchased the magazine and replaced  Hopkins  with Fred Randolph Moore (1857–1943) as editor. [1]