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Article: Celebrating Black history/Black love: a message from the president & CEO Linda Johnson Rice.(PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE)(chief executive officer)
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- February 1, 2008
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For the 21st consecutive year, we present, as we do each February, our special Black History and Black Love issue, which over the years has proven to be our most popular and most-anticipated issue. The combination of these two subjects has been so attractive to EBONY readers because both elements are integral parts of their lives.
In the years before we combined the presentation of Black History and Black Love, each February, in recognition of Black History Month, our singular focus was to honor people and events of our past in the same fashion that Carter G. Woodson, the "Father of Black History," hoped the original Black History Week would "dramatize the ...