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People magazine tweet Sept. 25, 2014, regarding Viola Davis’ performance in premiere of How to Get Away With Murder 

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Thursday night was a huge night for prime-time television, with season premieres of Shonda Rhimes’ Scandal and How to Get Away With Murder. With both shows proving to be hits on social media, various media outlets live-tweeted the premieres. But People magazine didn’t exactly win over the crowd with some of its tweets. Apparently the person behind People’

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Tatsha Robertson claims in her lawsuit only five employees at People were black among the magazine’s staff of 110.

Maybe they should call it White People magazine.

The recently axed lone black editor of People says she was discriminated against by her boss, and that the popular magazine is biased against African-Americans in general.

People is “a discriminatory organization run entirely by white people who intentionally focus the magazine on stories involving white people and white celebritie

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Beverly Johnson on Vogue

Model agents told her she’d never make it, hairdressers refused to touch her hair and Kodak didn’t even make film that could cope with her skin tone, but somehow 40 years ago Beverly Johnson became the first black woman on the cover of American Vogue.

“You mean there’s never been a woman of colour on the cover of Vogue magazine? Are you kidding me? We’re in the 1970s.”

When Beverly Johnson found out that she’d made the August 1974 cover of the fashion bible she was ec

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There were very few stories that shook the Christian community like the love triangle involving Gospel artists Deitrick Haddon, Damita, and Isaac Carree. Through it all Damita Remained silent for over two years while going through the divorce process and continued to stay silent far beyond that. Ridiculed by ex-husband Deitrick Haddon on social media, the singer hit rock bottom when all the drama took place closely after her mother’s death.

Now for the first time the newly remarried singer s

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A 2010 issue of JET magazine.
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First Newsweek, then Ladies Home Journal.

Now Jet.

The magazine, which was founded in 1951, is joining an ever-lengthening list of dying print publications.

Johnson Publishing announced today that Jet will transition to a digital magazine app at the end of June.

Jet has the third-largest circulation in the African-American magazine market with 700,000, behind Ebony and Essence.

“Almost 63 years ago, my father, John Johnson, named the publication Jet b

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TIME

TIME magazine unveiled its 11th annual “Time 100 Most Influential People in the World” issue on Thursday, with major — and controversial — figures from music, movies and the political world filling up a large portion of the list.

Superstar Beyonce Knowles-Carter is on the cover of the popular issue, and subsequent inside covers feature actor Robert Redford, Jason Collins, the NBA’s first openly gay athlete, and General Motors CEO Mary Barra.

Other honorees include actress Amy Adams, Am

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Check out more of the Harveys exclusive interview in the February 2014 issue of ESSENCE magazine now on newsstands.

Check out more of the Harveys exclusive interview in the February 2014 issue of ESSENCE magazine now on newsstands.

With Valentine’s Day steadily approaching next month, ESSENCE magazine has decided to tap Steve and Marjorie Harvey for the issue’s latest cover story, “A Love Worth The Wait.”

And in addition to the exclusive interview, which was conducted in their Chicago penthouse, dishing details on how the happily married couple maintains their everlasting love for one another, the New York

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