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...Glittery drag queen Marsha P Johnson, Afro-Brazilian resistance fighter Zumbi dos Palmares and emperor Haile Selassie compete to hold court....
...John Johnson, who built a publishing empire from scratch that included the Ebony and Jet magazine franchises, and George Johnson, who created one of the US’s largest cosmetic companies, were living examples...
...In the Whitechapel exhibition, a black vessel sits alone on a highly vibrant carpet from the archives of the African-American-owned Johnson Publishing Company held in the Stony Island Arts Bank....
...what he saw as Boris Johnson’s attempt to sideline MPs to secure Brexit....
...Such new aesthetics are manifest, from Zak Ové’s use of Afrofuturistic granite to replace ebony in his sculptural installations, to Phoebe Boswell’s reclaiming of the female nude in her three-channel video...
...Liz Johnson Artur , a London-based Russian-Ghanaian photographer, grew up in Bulgaria, Russia and Germany....
...& Williamson to the fact that black Americans were keener on its menthol brand, Kool, than white smokers, triggering advertising campaigns which featured black sports stars and ran in magazines such as Ebony...
...They have been reclaimed by Gates from the archive of the Johnson Publishing Company, which brought out Ebony and Jet, two of the most influential magazines of the period aimed at black consumers....
...In 2012 Gibson settled a US Department of Justice probe into claims it had illegally imported ebony and rosewood....
...The US public pension fund Calstrs last year insisted two new directors be added — Ebony Media chief executive, Linda Johnson Rice, and 21st Century Fox head, James Murdoch....
...Some of the books in “Walking Prayer” were originally published by Johnson Publishing, the seminal publishing company responsible for magazines such as Ebony and Jet, which Gates describes as “an early platform...
...He left for Johnson Publishing, and became the Washington bureau chief for Jet and Ebony magazines, a position he held for more than 50 years, joining the White House press corps and covering 10 presidents...
...corsets, who has gone off to collaborate with hot-shot fashion designer Grace Wales Bonner, and Charlotte Garnett, who has found a thriving market for her “anxiety-alleviating” jewellery such as pebbles in ebony...
...Jefferson, who says she finds the term African-American “textbook-officious” and negro “a word of wonders, glorious and terrible”, also cites less hallowed antecedents such as Angola-born Anthony Johnson...
...“It will be the permanent home of the Johnson library and periodicals [the Chicago publishing company that produced Ebony and Jet magazines]....
...Desirée Rogers, 54, chief executive of Johnson Publishing and a fellow Pilotto fan, says, “I’m all for it, as long as it’s what I consider to be ‘appropriate’.”...
..., “The Just Warm Pressed Hair Look”, “Johnson’s Ultra Ware will make you really proud of your hair”) with glitter, gold leaf and moulded Plasticine....
...An off-the-shoulder ebony gown, worn by Anna during an inappropriate waltz with Count Vronsky, is fashioned with enough satin (15 metres) to silence fellow courtiers in the dance hall....
...The special investments group made a handful of private equity investments in groups including LightSquared, which has filed for bankruptcy protection, and Johnson Publishing, publisher of Ebony magazine...
...Ruhlmann used the model for his own office, and a version in Macassar ebony was commissioned by the Maharaja of Indore, who also acquired the chaise longue “on skis” here (€2-€3m)....
...Studio Job is showing Perished from 2007, a series of pieces such as a traditional Dutch bench, a screen, a pedestal and a table handcrafted in Macassar ebony....
...Hedgehunter then realised a 34-year ambition for owner Trevor Hemmings, one of a clutch of leading racing figures including David Johnson, Sir Robert Ogden and J.P....
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