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On the heels of the second season premiere of her hit WGN show Underground (returning March 8th,) Jurnee Smollett-Bell is serving up some fierce, retro glamour realness on the cover of Ebony magazine’s March issue. https://twitter.com/EBONYMag/status/832279886731558913 To celebrate the annual Women’s History Month this March, Ebony magazine has selected the beautiful and talented Jurnee Smollett-Bell […]

  After a 71-year run in Chicago, Johnson Publishing is getting out of publishing. The company said Tuesday it has sold Ebony, its iconic African-American lifestyle magazine, and the now digital-only Jet magazine to Clear View Group, an Austin, Texas-based private equity firm, for an undisclosed amount. Johnson Publishing will retain its Fashion Fair Cosmetics business and […]

With her 11 Grammy nominations and three #1 albums, can you believe the latest issue of Ebony is Jazmine Sullivan's first magazine cover? The singer/songwriter who's frequently compared to Adele has had to fight for industry recognition as an artist and as a plus sized woman.

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On Thursday, Kierna Mayo, Editor-in-Chief of Ebony Magazine, and JeffriAnne Wilder, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of North Florida, spoke with Roland Martin and the NewsOne Now discussion panel about the magazine cover that has set social media ablaze.

Ebony magazine and its new Editor in Chief Kierna Mayo are on a roll. This week, the magazine dropped its second controversial cover in a…

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Go EIC, that’s my EIC! You betta, you betta…@kiernamayo pic.twitter.com/hL1fiUM7c6 — Jamilah Lemieux (@JamilahLemieux) October 16, 2015 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Most people are still shaking the dust…

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The latest cover of EBONY magazine, which bears an image of “The Cosby Show” cast with a shattered glass overlay, has sparked controversy amongst its readers.

Wendy Williams looks simply amazing on the May issue of Ebony Magazine. Inside, the media mogul speaks on balancing her home life with a growing empire. Despite her…

One month after Mitzi Miller exited Ebony magazine as their editor-in-chief, she has landed a job in Hollywood. Rainforest Entertainment CEO Rob Hardy, who also…

Kerry Washington is looking to be the Rihanna of TV stars the way she’s scoring magazine covers lately! After gracing InStyle (we know the cover…

For EBONY magazine’s September issue, the iconic African-American brand dedicates four covers to the Trayvon Martin movement that has gripped Black America for over a…