Posts Tagged ‘Jet magazine’
Foundation Consortium Acquires Historic African American Photographic Archive
The Smithsonian Foundation’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Getty Research Institute, and other leading cultural institutions will soon house the archive of Johnson Publishing Company (JPC), publisher of the iconic Ebony and Jet magazines. These archives comprise the most significant collection of photographs cataloguing African American life in the 20th century, “documenting an essential part of American history over an extraordinary period.”
Read MorePillars of Black Media, Once Vibrant, Now Fighting for Survival
When Johnson Publishing, a black-founded and owned company, announced a little more than two weeks ago that it had sold Ebony and Jet to a private equity firm in Texas, there was a sense of loss. Traditional media companies have struggled for years to adapt to a digital world, but the pressure on black-owned media has been even more acute.
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