and middle-class, nuclear families. At Johnson’s insistence, they all but overcorrected for the stories of black suffering or dysfunction that were overrepresented elsewhere. Ebony and Jet shone a light on the accomplished, what today gets labeled #blackexcellence. The publications also ran pictures of drag queen balls and other parts of black life illuminated in few other places, including black-owned newspapers.
Those numbers made it clear to advertisers — the biggest source of Johnson’s revenue — that there was a largely ignored black American consumer market. That, in turn, created work for black journalists, as well as ad men and later women able to build campaigns aimed at black consumers. Eventually Ebony and Jet helped to create demand for companies with culturally specific marketing expertise.
“The silver lining is, if there is one, is that The New York Times will today take up the subjects of its stories,” said Greer, author of the book, “Johnson Publishing, for decades one of America’s largest black-owned businesses,. The company had retained control of Ebony and Jet’s archive, but the cost of maintaining the archive was unsustainable, said Miriam Stein, a lawyer and court-appointed trustee overseeing the sale.
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We were all created equal. Endowed by our Creator to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Malcolm X warned us about white liberals. Remember his words: “The white liberal is the worst enemy to America, and the worst enemy to the black man. BlackHistoryMonth2020
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It would interest you to know that the photographer won the Pulitzer Prize for the image. The first African American to do so BlackHistoryMonth
Ebony is a racist magazine.
A staple in Black households.
Too bad there was not some sort of clause for historic items to NEVER be sold or auctioned (yitt)
Those are the same historians that weren't so worried about preserving historic statues? Let's just pick the history we want to remember?
😪 I wish I cld afford to buy em pictures Ebony and Jet BestOfAnEra Black America Excellence Pride Love 💗
'Jet beat of the week was always garbage