The Black Magazine Tradition: The Crisis, Ebony and Jet

Du Bois's The Crisis, John H. Johnson's Ebony and Jet — the magazines that documented Black America when the slicks wouldn't print it.

Playlist by @magazine_birth

16 tracks, shared on Audicious.

  1. The Crisis Magazine presents: Celebrating 100 years featuring W.E.B Du Bois — NAACP
  2. W.E.B. Du Bois: Activist Leader in Niagara Movement & Co-Founder of the NAACP | Biography — Biography
  3. W.E.B. Du Bois: The Power of Double Consciousness | DigiDocs — Al Jazeera English
  4. W.E.B. DuBois: A Recorded Autobiography (1961) — Reelblack One
  5. The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War — Emory University
  6. The Black Press: From Freedom’s Journal to The Crisis, Ebony & Jet — Black History in Two Minutes or so
  7. Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords — California Newsreel
  8. The $250M JET Magazine EMPIRE Destroyed By Its Own Family — The Black Wealth Explainer
  9. The TRAGIC Family Behind Ebony Magazine's $200 Million Black Media Empire — The Black Wealth Explainer
  10. Ebony & Jet: The Black Media Empire That Vanished Overnight — Black Business Files
  11. A look back at the Chicago history behind Ebony and Jet magazines — WGN News
  12. Winning bid for Ebony and Jet magazine photo archives comes in at $30 million — CBS News
  13. The First Issue of Jet Magazine! Black in Time Episode 1 — Black In Time
  14. "We knew we were getting the truth": The importance of Ebony and Jet magazines to black America — CBS Mornings
  15. The First Black Beauty Influencer: Eunice Johnson, Ebony and Jet Magazine Owner — Royal, Black, and Elite History and Culture
  16. How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? — The Atlantic