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November 1, 1945 · Business, Publishing & Representation

Ebony Put Black Life at the Center

John H. and Eunice Johnson launched a national picture magazine that treated Black achievement, family life, beauty, politics, and culture as the main story.

Then

Mainstream magazines routinely ignored Black life or reduced it to stereotype and crisis.

Now

A Black-owned publication offered a national audience images and stories centered on Black experience.

Next

Media power grows when communities can own, preserve, and interpret their own records.

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