Ebony’s debut was published on November 1, 1945, selling 25,000 copies at twenty-five cents per copy. Banking on Ebony’s success and its focus on Black excellence, Jet magazine debuted six years after on the same date in 1951. It was billed the “Weekly Negro News Magazine” and was a small-format, quick read magazine that featured the popular “Jet Beauty of the Week” centerfold. (READ MORE)(SOURCE: BLACKAMERICAWEB.COM)
