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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 ...
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.
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 ...
The Black Archives of Mid-America holds an oral history collection collected in the mid-1970s comprising 97 audiocassettes, holding interviews of 56 people, mostly from Kansas City's African American community. [3] [6]
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, [3] [4] the magazine was billed as "The Weekly Negro News Magazine".
Beginning in the mid-1970s, advertisers created customized ads for the magazine which featured African-American models using their products. [19] In 1985, Ebony Man, a monthly men's magazine was created, printing the first issue in September 1985. [5] By Ebony's 40th anniversary in November 1985, it had a circulation of 1.7 million. [14]
The paper was a focal point for publication on the arts and African-American culture, including poetry, [8] commentary on theatre and music, and regular book reviews. Romeo Lionel Dougherty, a prominent figure of the Jazz Age , began writing for Negro World in 1922.
African American newspapers (also known as the Black press or Black newspapers) are news publications in the United States serving African American communities. Samuel Cornish and John Brown Russwurm started the first African American periodical, Freedom's Journal , in 1827.