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Scholarly Journals

The Black Scholar Online
Founded in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1969 by Robert Chrisman and Nathan Hare, THE BLACK SCHOLAR (TBS) is the first modern Black studies and research journal and is currently the leading such journal in the United States. 


Online Journal

The Journal of African American History, formerly The Journal of Negro History, is a quarterly academic journal covering African-American life and history. It was founded in 1916 by Carter G. Woodson.

Popular African American Magazines

 


Ebony is a monthly magazine that focuses on news, culture, and entertainment. Its target audience is the Black-American community, and its coverage includes the lifestyles and accomplishments of influential black people, fashion, beauty, and politics.
 

Jet Magazine
Jet is an American weekly digital magazine focusing on news, culture, and entertainment related to the African-American community. Founded in print by John H. Johnson in November 1951 in Chicago, Illinois, the magazine was billed as "The Weekly Negro News Magazine".

SEPIA
Sepia was a photojournalistic magazine featuring articles based primarily on achievements of African Americans. The magazine was founded in 1946 as Negro Achievements by Horace J. Blackwell, an African-American clothing merchant of Fort Worth, Texas. He had already founded The World's Messenger in 1942.

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