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
23
Robert Houston Fentress
Stephanie Mills: New Look, New Life, New Love
27
Stephanie Mills
Sensational Skin '88
36
Skin (Care and hygiene)
Sensational Hair!
38
Black hairstyling
Who's the Best in the NBA?
44
Black basketball players
"My Happiest Moment".
86
Black celebrities, Happiness
Black TV and Movie Scriptwriters: the Write Stuff
92
Television authorship, Screenwriting, Black authors
Recipes to Remember
102
Cooking, Black
Should Teenagers be Executed?
118
Paula R. Cooper, Capital punishment (Indiana), Juvenile justice, Administration of (Indiana)
Ebony Update: Jester Hairston
126
Jester Hairston (American singer, songwriter and actor.); 1901-2000

Jessye Norman: Diva
52
Jessye Norman
How to Talk to Your Child about Sex
60
Sex education, Parent-child relationship
Whatever Happened to . . . Eldridge Cleaver
66
Eldridge Cleaver; 1935-1998
How to Get a Good Night's Sleep
70
Sleep
Pioneers of Britain's Parliament
76
Bernie Grant (British member of Parliament.); 1944-2000, Paul Boateng (British cabinet member.); 1951-, Diane Abbott (British member of Parliament.); 1953-, Great Britain Parliament House of Commons, Blacks (Great Britain)
Black Women Firefighters
132
Black women firefighters
Black Student Presidents at White Colleges
140
Student government, Black college students
Beulah Mae Donald: the Black Woman who Beat the Ku Klux Klan
148
Beulah Mae Donald (mother of Michael Donald.), Michael Donald (American lynching victim.), Ku Klux Klan, Lynching, Mobile (Ala.) (Race relations)
Can Jesse Jackson Win?
154
Jesse L. Jackson (American clergyman and civil rights activist.); 1941-

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