RIP John H. Johnson
John H. Johnson, who used his mother’s furniture as security for a $500 loan to start the business empire that eventually included Ebony and Jet magazines and that made him one of the nation’s richest and most powerful black businessmen, died yesterday in Chicago. He was 87.
There isn’t a Black Family in a America that didn’t have a subscription to Ebony or Jet at one time or another, if not both. And you know you could always find a copy at the barbershop. The Jet was already opened to page 43.
