The early issues often featured celebrities such as Lena Horne and Dorothy Dandridge and Michael Jackson on its covers. Constantly upbeat, like its generic contemporary Life, it covered African-American issues, personalities, and interests in a positive light. National corporations featured black models driving cars and drinking soft drinks in ads used for issues of Ebony, which was the first magazine to feature such advertisements.

One of the co-editors was Hans Massaquoi, author of the autobiography Destined to Witness, a book about his youth in Nazi Germany as a black boy. The book had been on the top of the bestseller list of the German weekly Der Spiegel for many months .

In August 2008 the magazine featured a special 8 cover edition featuring the "25 Coolest Brothers Of All Time", the line up featured Jay-Z, Barack Obama, Prince, Samuel L. Jackson, Denzel Washington, Marvin Gaye, Muhammad Ali and Billy Dee Williams.

References

External links

• Official website
• Publishing history of Ebony recounted by Langston Hughes in the 20th anniversary issue of Ebony, November 1965