African American Studies

Ebony Magazine
https://books.google.com/books?id=RNcDAAAAMBAJ

Contains information geared to interests of black Americans. Features African Americans in politics, business and the arts. 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.

Ebony magazine was founded in Chicago in 1945 by John H. Johnson, for his Johnson Publishing Company. He sought to address African-American issues, personalities and interests in a positive and self-affirming manner. Its cover photography typically showcases African-American public figures, including entertainers and politicians, such as Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, former U.S. senator Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois, U.S. first lady Michelle Obama, Beyoncé, Tyrese Gibson, and Tyler Perry. Each year, Ebony selects the "100 Most Influential Blacks in America".

Jet Magazine
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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". As publisher, the Johnson Publishing Company created Jet magazine to offer Black Americans proper representation, noting under-representation of African Americans in the general media. Jet chronicled the civil rights movement from its earliest years, including the murder of Emmett Till, the Montgomery bus boycott, and the activities of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

Essence Magazine
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Essence is an American monthly lifestyle magazine covering fashion, beauty, entertainment, and culture. First published in 1970, the magazine is written for African-American women.

Sepia
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Sepia was a competitor of Ebony that was published in Fort Worth, Texas, from 1946 until 1983. It was first published under the title Negro Achievements, then as Sepia Records, and finally as Sepia from 1954 onwards. Unlike the more cheerful Ebony, Sepia was sometimes harder-hitting, especially in its coverage of American race relations, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. While founded and staffed by Black Americans, for most of its existence Sepia was owned by the Jewish businessman George Levitan. It was notably engaged in religion, seeing the church as a preserver of Black culture, and engaged in advocacy for historically black colleges.

Emerge
https://www.proquest.com/publication/33060

Emerge was a news magazine in the mold of Time and Newsweek, launched by Wilmer C. Ames in 1989 and eventually taken over by Black Entertainment Television (BET) and published through Vanguarde Media, Inc. The magazine focused explicitly on Black news and issues related to Black heritage. Its debut issue mixes current events with retrospectives and interviews on the careers of Black figures like broadcast journalist Ed Bradley, theater director and actor Lloyd Richards, and actress and singer Josephine Baker, all of them aimed at the growing Black middle class.

This first issue of the magazine features articles on the persistence of the idea that Black people were better athletes (with the accompanying idea that they must be inferior in other regards); on the development of Black music the exploitation of Black styles by white artists; the shipment of toxic waste to Africa; and on Black hairstyles.

The Black Panther Newspaper

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The Black Panther was the official newspaper of the Black Panther Party. It began as a four-page newsletter in Oakland, California, in 1967, and was founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. 

Muhammad Speaks

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v.15:no.[8] ([1975:Oct 31) - v.15:no.9 (1975:Nov 7) : v.1:no.1 (1975:Nov 7) - v.1:no.52 (1976:Nov 5) lacks nos. 3-8, 17, 35 : v.2:no.1 (1976:Nov 12) - v.2:no.26 (1977:May 6) lacks no.15 or 16 (1977:Feb 18) and no.24 : v.2:no.27 (1977:May 13) - v.2:no.52 (1977:Nov 9) lacks nos. 48-49 : v.3:no.1 (1977:Nov 11) - v.3:no.26 (1978:May 5) : v.3:no.27 (1978:May 12) - v.3:no.52 (1978:Nov 3) lacks no.49 : v.4:no.1 (1978 :Nov 10) - v.4:no.26 (1979:May 4) : v.4:no.27 (1979:May 11) - v.4:no.52 (1979:Nov 2) : v.5:no.1 (1979 :Nov 9) - v.5:no.26 (1980:May 2) : v.5:no.27 (1980:May 9) - v.5:no.52 (1980:Oct 31) : v.6:no.1 (1980 :Nov 7) - v.6:no.26 (1981:May 1) : v.6:no.27 (1980:May 8) - v.6:no.52 (1981:Oct 30)

Muhammad Speaks was a Black Muslim newspaper published in the United States. It was one of the most widely read newspapers ever produced by an African American organization. It was the official newspaper of the Nation of Islam from 1960 to 1975, founded by a group of Elijah Muhammad's ministers, including Malcolm X.^[3]

After Elijah Muhammad's death in 1975, it was renamed several times after Warith Deen Mohammed moved the Nation of Islam into mainstream Sunni Islam, culminating in The Muslim Journal. A number of rival journals were also published, including The Final Call under Louis Farrakhan, claiming to continue the message of the original.