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Article: Ebony's nativity: poet laureate of Black America recalled founding years of magazine. (The Best of Ebony) (45th Anniversary Edition)
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- November 1, 1990
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EBONY'S NATIVITY
Poet laureate of Black America recalled founding years of magazine
I CANNOT say I was a mere stripling of a boy when Ebony was born--but I was 20 years younger than I am now. I cannot say I was any less race-conscious in 1945 than I am today, but two decades ago I found less in the world to bolster my race pride than we have now. An especially happy event in regard to race was the birth of Ebony in the autumn of 1945--a new, young and handsome journalistic child of which to be proud.
I liked Ebony from its very beginning, and only a few times during its adolescent period did I get a bit put out with it--as often happens to ...