November 1, 2021
Ebony Magazine
John Johnson adds to his publications Ebony Magazine on this day in 1945. This was a bigger news and entertainment magazine designed to cover Black Life in America. It became the first Black magazine to have a national audience.
Also on this day
Businessman John H. Johnson founds the Johnson Publishing Company in Chicago and begins the publication of the Negro Digest on this day in 1942.
In 1951, on this day, John Johnson began publishing Jet Magazine, a weekly magazine that focused on the news, culture, and entertainment of interest to Black people.
The Crisis, the official magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) begins publication on this day in 1910. It is edited by the famed intellectual Dr W.E.B. DuBois.
John Edward Bruce was a journalist and historian who after the end of reconstruction made the case for Black people to move to Africa. He gave a speech, later published on this day in 1877 in the Christian Recorder, entitled “Reasons Why the Colored American Should go to Africa”