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African-American magazines. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. J. Johnson Publishing Company (10 P, 2 F) Pages in category "African ...
Ebony is a monthly magazine that focuses on news, culture, and entertainment. Its target audience is the African-American community, and its coverage includes the lifestyles and accomplishments of influential black people, fashion, beauty, and politics. [4] [5] Ebony magazine was founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, for his Johnson Publishing ...
Although Negro Digest/Black World gave way to other African-American magazines such as Ebony, Jet and Essence, it significantly impacted the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and early '70s, and as well as literary work showcased reproductions of artworks. In the words of Chris Brancaccio: "Negro Digest/Black World is a fascinating artifact ...
Jet is an American weekly digital magazine focusing on news, culture, and entertainment related to the African-American community. Founded by Johnson in November 1951 of the Johnson Publishing Company in Chicago, Illinois, [4] [5] the magazine was billed as "The Weekly Negro News Magazine".
This is a list of African American newspapers and media outlets, which is sortable by publication name, city, state, founding date, and extant vs. defunct status. For more detail on a given newspaper, see the linked entries below. See also by state, below on this page, for entries on African American newspapers in each state.
Freedomways was the leading African-American theoretical, political and cultural journal of the 1960s–1980s. [1] It began publishing in 1961 and ceased in 1985. [2] The journal's founders were Louis Burnham, Edward Strong, W. E. B. Du Bois, and its first general editor was Shirley Graham Du Bois. It was later edited by Esther Cooper Jackson.
Soul was founded in 1966 by Ken Jones and Cecil Tuck and initially sold weekly for 15 cents. [1] The first issue, published 14 April 1966, featured James Brown and Mick Jagger on the cover with the headline “White Artists Selling Negro ‘Soul.’” [2] 10,000 copies of the first issue were sold.
Sheen Magazine is a bimonthly magazine about African-American entertainment, music, culture, lifestyle and fashion. It was founded by Kimberly M. Chapman [ 1 ] in 2006 as an extension of her Chapman Products Company. [ 2 ]