Jet
June 2011
Models
Garcelle Beauvais
Copyrights
Ebony Media Operations, LLC
Jet
based in
New York
US
since
November 1951
Editor-in-Chief
Mitzi Miller
Published by
Ebony Media Operations, LLC
print issued weekly
About
Jet is an American weekly digital magazine focusing on news, culture, and entertainment related to the African-American community. Founded in November 1951 by John H. Johnson of the Johnson Publishing Company in Chicago, Illinois, the magazine was billed as "The Weekly Negro News Magazine". Jet's goal was to provide "news coverage on happenings among Negroes all over the U.S.—in entertainment, politics, sports, social events as well as features on unusual personalities, places and events."
Jet chronicled the civil rights movement from its earliest years, including the murder of Emmett Till, the Montgomery bus boycott, and the activities of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
Redd Foxx called the magazine "the Negro bible".
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