“In 1942, John H. Johnson launched Negro Digest, which quickly became a bestselling periodical among African Americans and building off its success, Johnson launched the black photo-magazine EBONY in 1945…”
So begins today’s story from Dr. Brenna Wynn Greer.
For further reading:
Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined African American Citizenship by Brenna Wynn Greer (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
Episode transcript:
https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/
