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Society pages of Jet Magazine, 1950s. The successes, scandals, social debuts and high jinks of the Black American upper class were all covered here. As America was segregated at the time, this cloistered social set was not well-known en masse beyond the Black community...

u/TheMahagonyDefender — 11 days ago
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HBCU-Core: Perhaps no two HBCU institutions have produced more Black families and close friends over the centuries than Morehouse College (Est. 1867) & Spelman College (Est. 1881). Their close proximity has resulted in generations of Morehouse men marrying Spelman women and having Legacy families...

u/TheMahagonyDefender — 12 days ago
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Cover girls of DRUM magazine through the decades. Est. 1951 - and at one point the African continent's most successful magazine - it had editions in different nations across South, East and West Africa. The publication continues today...

The magazine was established in 1951, during Apartheid South Africa - and though initially unsuccessful, due to it's first editor's portrayal of the nation's tribes in most simplistic and patronising manner - a changing of the guard radically altered Drum's fate. Drum would rise to fame covering South Africa's Black celebrities, entertainment, lifestyle and (subtly to avoid the might of the law) social activism of the city townships. For a period of time, the much of the news was rooted in Sophiatown, then considered the Hollywood of Black South Africa.

In time, pin-ups of various nations would grace its cover as Drum spread to other nations - usually modern (liberal) and well connected women from  middle class to affluent African families - and editions would also feature diaspora communities in the wider Western world.

Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRUM_(South_African_magazine)

u/Randomredditname19 — 15 days ago