![]() Ebony staff photographer Moneta Sleet Jr. Jet, for instance, published a photograph of 14-year-old Emmett Till’s mangled body lying in his casket, a move that “forced millions of Americans to reckon with the country’s racism,” as Tessa Solomon writes for ARTnews. The magazines also documented the civil rights movement and made strategic publishing decisions to help shine a light on the plight of Black Americans. Jet and Ebony’s award-winning photographers captured iconic images of Black celebrities and leaders, from Ray Charles and Muhammad Ali to Rosa Parks and Billie Holiday. MacArthur Foundation, Mellon Foundation and Smithsonian InstitutionĪll told, the archive includes more than 3 million photo negatives and slides, 983,000 photographs, 166,000 contact sheets and 9,000 audio and visual recordings, which makes it the most comprehensive collection chronicling modern Black history in America in the 20th century. Johnson Publishing Company / Courtesy of the Ford Foundation, J. Booth have been diligently preparing for the archive’s transfer and planning for its future. ![]() Over the last three years, archivists led by Steven D. Now, they’re making good on that promise-and, in doing so, they’re preserving the historic collection of images for years to come. At the time, the groups announced their plan to donate the archive to the NMAAHC and the Getty Research Institute once the sale was finalized. MacArthur Foundation and the Mellon Foundation joined together to buy the publishing company’s archives for $30 million as part of a bankruptcy sale. “It is an incredible honor to be able to continue to share that story and that history-much of which remains to be fully explored-with the public and with future generations of scholars and students.” “For those of us who grew up with Ebony and Jet on our coffee tables, in the barbershop and beauty salon, and on newsstands, we know firsthand how these publications-and the Johnson Publishing Company company-shaped our understanding of African American culture,” Kevin Young, the NMAAHC’s director, tells Smithsonian magazine. A consortium of philanthropic organizations officially transferred the publishing company’s archive to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) and the Getty Research Institute, the groups announced last week.Įxperts are now hard at work digitizing and conserving the publishing company’s expansive archive of photos, negatives, slides and other photographic artifacts so that journalists, scholars and members of the general public can soon access and study them. Now, the magazines’ iconic photo archives are one step closer to being accessible by the public. At a time when mainstream media and pop culture focused on white audiences, the two publications, published by the Chicago-based Johnson Publishing Company starting in the 1940s and ’50s, offered an authentic window into the Black experience. BOARD POLICY 0410.For seven decades, Ebony and Jet magazines printed compelling stories and vivid photographs depicting Black life and culture in America. Complaint forms are available at school sites, on the district webpage at - under District Services - Ombudsperson or at the Office of the Ombudsperson, located at 1000 Broadway, Suite 150, Oakland, California 94607. OUSD prohibits unlawful discrimination (such as discriminatory harassment, intimidation, or bullying) against any student, employee, or other person participating in district programs and activities, including, but not limited to, those programs or activities funded directly by or that receive or benefit from any state financial assistance, based on the person's actual or perceived characteristics of race or ethnicity, color, ancestry, nationality, national origin, ethnic group identification, age, religion, marital, pregnancy, or parental status, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, or genetic information, or any other characteristic identified in Education Code 200 or 220, Government Code 11135, or Penal Code 422.55 or Title IX, or based on his/her association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics ().
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