Ebony

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EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
 

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Contents

Backstage
24
Granville Marshal Wilson
Janet: Hit Album Takes Another Jackson to the Top
29
Janet Jackson
Persistence of the Spirit: Arkansas Sesquicentennial Celebration Salutes Black Achievement
36
Blacks (Arkansas), Arkansas (Anniversaries)
Cook County's Top Doctor
44
Agnes D. Lattimer, Cook County Hospital (Chicago, Ill.)
Dizzy Gillespie: He Just Keeps Bopping Along
50
Dizzy Gillespie (American trumpet player.); 1917-1993
Great Faces Then and Now
78
Black celebrities (Photographs)
How to Kick Your Bad Habits
86
Habits
Ebony Visits Payton's Place
92
Walter Payton; 1954-1999
Hair Color Alive!
100
Hair (Dyeing and bleaching)
What the 'big Boys' Eat!
108
Black athletes (Nutrition), Cooking

The Mandelas: First Family of South Africa's Freedom Fight
66
Nelson Mandela (South African president.), Winnie Mandela (South African political leader and wife of Nelson Mandela.), Political prisoners (South Africa), Apartheid
Cashing in on a Windfall of Coupons
72
Coupons, Black consumers
A 'Sharpe' Change in Newark
128
Sharpe James; 1936-., Newark (N.J.) (Politics and government)
The Real-life Tragedy of Dorothy Dandridge
136
Dorothy Dandridge

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