Academy Award winners Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, and Jamie Foxx on the 60th anniversary cover of Ebony Magazine, November 2005

Ebony, a magazine for the African American market, was founded by John H. Johnson and has been published since the autumn of 1945. Image File history File links EbonyMagazine. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... Denzel Washington Denzel Washington (born December 28, 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York) is an American Academy Award-winning actor. ... Halle Berry on the Dec 2002 cover of Vogue Halle Maria Berry (born August 14, 1966) is an Academy Award-winning actress and model. ... Jamie Foxx (born Eric Marlon Bishop on December 13, 1967 in Terrell, Texas) is an American Academy Award winning actor, Contemporary R&B singer and Comedian. ... Look up November in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A collection of magazines A magazine is a periodical publication containing a variety of articles, generally financed by advertising and/or purchase by readers. ... An African American (also Afro-American, Black American, or simply black), is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ... John H. Johnson, Chairman and CEO of Johnson Publishing Company John Harold Johnson (January 19, 1918 – August 8, 2005) was the founder of the Johnson Publishing Company, an international media and cosmetics empire that includes Ebony, and Jet magazines, Fashion Fair Cosmetics and EBONY Fashion Fair. ... OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXx Autumn (also fall in North American English) is one of the four temperate seasons, the transition from summer into winter. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

The early issues often featured beauties like Lena Horne and Dorothy Dandridge on its eye-catching covers. Constantly upbeat, like its generic contemporary Life, it gave African Americans a needed psychic boost. For the first time, national corporations featured black models driving cars and drinking soft drinks in the issues of Ebony. Niggers suck. Lena Horne photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1941 Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (born June 30, 1917 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American popular singer. ... Dorothy Dandridge Dorothy Jean Dandridge (born November 9, 1922 or 1923 in Cleveland, Ohio; died September 8, 1965 in West Hollywood, California) was an American actress. ... A cover of Life Magazine from 1911 Life has been the name of two notable magazines published in the United States. ...

One of the co-editors was Hans Massaquoi, author of the autobiography Destined to Witness, a book about his youth in Nazi Germany as a black boy. The book had been on the top of the bestseller list of the German weekly Der Spiegel for many months. Hans Massaquoi, born 1926 in Hamburg, Germany as the son of a German mother and an African diplomat from Liberia, at that time one of only two independent states in Black Africa, the other being Ethopia. ... Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany, is an autobiographical book by Hans J. Massaquoi. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Nazism. ... Photo of the cover of the first issue of Der Spiegel (1/1947) Der Spiegel (German for The Mirror) is Germanys biggest and most influential weekly magazine, published in Hamburg, with a circulation of around one million per week. ...

External link

• Ebony Magazine website
• Publishing history of Ebony recounted by Langston Hughes in the 20th anniversary issue of Ebony, November 1965.