founder of the ohama star, the longest running newspaper founded by a black woman. >> mildred brown woman of character. she was a woman who cared. she was a matriarch of north ohama. she was the ohama star. if you asked somebody they would say she was synonymous with the newspaper. the ohama star is a black newspaper, pitched toward the black community but a lot of people in ohama pick it up. it is technically the longest running black newspaper founded by a black woman in the united states. mildred brown started as a school teacher in birmingham, alabama, and citied second graders, third graders fourth graders, and then she met her husband, and he was a pharmacist one of the very few who had got an doctorate this is in the 1900s and they got married and they moved to chicago, and she started going to classes and then the wasn't to des moines and she went to more college classes and and then they ended up in sioux city and he was she superintendent for the church she was attending, and her minister came to her and said, there's a newspaper here in town, i think maybe you could do a