Ebony magazine has been the magazine of black America since it was first published in November 1945. Its stories of success and achievement were a welcome antidote to how its readers normally saw themselves portrayed in mainstream newspapers and magazines. (If they were featured at all, it was usually for something that reinforced the mainstream stereotype of who and what black Americans were.) Until a decade ago , Ebony regularly sold out on newsstands and had a large and loyal subscriber base. So when Los Angeles writer Liz Dwyer was asked to write three articles for the February 2017 issue, which looked at how African-Americans might fare under new President Donald Trump, she was thrilled to say yes. " Ebony is one of those historical publications that you grew up seeing on your grandma's coffee table or your parents' coffee table," Dwyer says. "For me, growing up, it was one of the only places that I regularly saw myself or my parents reflected in it. Where I saw women who looked
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