Product Description

EBONY is a black-oriented, general, picture magazine dealing primarily with contemporary topics. Feature articles deal with education, history, politics, literature, art, business, personalities, civil rights, sports, entertainment, music and social events. Regular monthly departments include Speaking of People, Fashion Fair, Photo-Editorial, Sounding Off (record review), Ebony Book Shelf, Date With a Dish (culinary art), House Call (Health and Fitness). The August issue is devoted to an in-depth treatment of one aspect of current life in Black America such as civil rights, youth, segregation.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #475 in Magazine Subscriptions
• Formats: Magazine Subscription, Print

Customer Reviews

Declining Quality
I've been an Ebony reader for years and in the past have usually enjoyed the articles. But in recent years, I have become disappointed in the quality of the magazine. Many of the articles do not delve deep enough in the issues affecting the Black community and for me come off as journalistic fluff. I would also have to agree with another reviewer who expressed concern with the constant barrage of celebrity pics. Besides adding to the aforementioned journalistic fluff, I have grown weary of seeing Ebony fill their pages with some famous Black actor or sports hero with his new "pigment deficient" wife. (This, while in a previous issue, they talk about how hard it is for Black women to find a good Black man.) But since they are going to profile celebritites, I would like to see them profile more Black actresses than Halle Berry. There are many of us who are in the "Angela Bassett was robbed" camp and would like to see evidence that Black female Hollywood is not just Halle.

For an overall review, if you want glossy pics, this mag is for you.

If you want in-depth articles that really examine the issues, look elsewhere.

black awareness
After reading EBONY, i found out that the magazine is unique in the sense that it brings out the welfare of Black race, more so it is also good for one to know the insight of what is going on in America concerning the Blacks, as in their welfare, also knowing what they've achieved in the music Business, and the entertainment world.

In a "perfect" world, Ebony would not be needed!
But, inasmuch as perfection on this planet is many years away, the legendary magazine is essential today as it was "back in the day". It provides insight on the famous and the up-and-coming, occasionally jabbing at the controversial.

While I am sometimes at odds with its glossy profiles of celebrities and political figures, I do, however, find the publication to be well researched and an enjoyable read.