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PEOPLE & ARTS Saturday 27 July 2019

Ebony and Jet photo archive sale sparks relief, anxiety

By RUSSELL CONTRERAS the civil rights movement
SALLY HO and the lives of prominent
Associated Press figures such as Miles Da-
The sale of the photo ar- vis, Muhammad Ali, Nina
chive of Ebony and Jet Simone, and Coretta Scott
magazines chronicling Af- King at her husband's fu-
rican American history is neral. It was Jet in 1955 that
generating relief among published a photo of the
some who worried the his- open coffin of Emmett Till,
toric images may be lost. showing the effects of the
But it's also causing some fatal beating the 14-year-
to mourn since the images, old Chicago boy suffered
including photos of Em- at the hands of white men
mett Till in 1955 after he was in Mississippi for allegedly
killed and ones document- whistling at a white woman.
ing the rise of the Rev. Mar- Gibbs said the photos also
tin Luther King Jr., won't fully show everyday black life —
be in the hands an African from children playing in city
American-owned entity. parks to elders praying at
Ebony and Jet, for more rural churches.
than half a century, stood "It wasn't about all poverty
as the epitome of a black- and suffering. It was about
owned business. In this Dec. 10, 2001 file photo Linda Johnson Rice, president and chief operating officer of Jet joy," Gibbs said.
"You have to do what you magazine, looks over awards and recognitions won by the magazine in its 50-year lifetime at Jet's Ivey McClelland, 57, a mu-
have to do," Roy Douglas Chicago headquarters. sician in Albuquerque, New
Malonson, publisher of the Associated Press Mexico, said Ebony and
Houston-based African The foundations plan to do- the nonprofit sector's most cated resources to cover Jet were found in every
American News & Issues nate the more than 4 million prominent black leaders events and people con- black home she knew while
newspaper, said. "But it's prints and negatives to the and are themselves a rar- nected to African Ameri- growing up in Los Angeles.
sad because we lose con- Smithsonian National Mu- ity in the near exclusively can lifestyle and news as "My uncle, bless his heart,
trol forever." seum of African American white world of big-money Ebony and Jet magazines. had around 30 to 40 years'
The Ford Foundation, the History and Culture and the philanthropy. Ebony began publishing worth of Jet magazines,"
John D. and Catherine T. Getty Research Institute. Both Darren Walker and regularly just after the end she said. "He got them for
McArthur Foundation, The The Smithsonian is expect- Elizabeth Alexander said of World War II while the 'The Beauty of the Week'."
J. Paul Getty Trust and the ed to be the public stew- the sale was important to smaller-sized Jet began in But McClelland said the
Andrew W. Mellon Founda- ard of what is considered them personally as African 1951 when African Ameri- magazines remained dear
tion are buying the archive one of the most significant Americans. cans in many regions still to her heart for their im-
for $30 million as part of an collections of photographs "What it means to be in a lived under racial segre- ages connected to key
auction to pay off secured cataloguing African Ameri- position to be able to be gation. Adrienne Samu- moments in black history.
creditors of Johnson Pub- can life. Getty will be helpful in safeguarding this els Gibbs, a former Ebony She and her mother were
lishing Company. tasked with digitally pre- treasure and our shared magazine staffer, said Eb- in Michigan and Cana-
Chicago-based Johnson serving the trove, some of history overwhelms me with ony and Jet dutifully cap- da when the Watts Riots
Publishing, the owner of which remains a mystery. joy," Alexander said. "It is tured the environment that of 1965 erupted. The first
the archives and former The deal was shepherded very significant." African Americans were still images she saw of her
publisher of the magazines, by the presidents of the Besides black newspapers forced to endure over the community in Los Angeles
filed for Chapter 7 bank- Ford and Mellon founda- in cities across the nation, years. The collection of 4 damaged by fires were in
ruptcy protection in April. tions. The two are among few media outlets dedi- million images chronicles Jet, she said.q

Julia Bueno writes about miscarriage in 'Brink of Being'

By TRACEE M. HERBAUGH researchers showed little dissipates," Bueno writes. ten leaves a woman, and
Associated Press interest in learning more For centuries, most women sometimes expectant fam-
"The Brink of Being: Talking about the emotional and had no way of knowing ily members, reeling with
about Miscarriage" (Pen- psychological impact a definitively if they miscar- grief. Despite the common-
guin Books), by Julia Bueno miscarriage can have on a ried. Modern technology, ality of miscarriage, few
Miscarriage was historically woman. specifically the at-home resources are available to
an overlooked experience, Bueno brings her personal pregnancy test, changed help women cope.
but a new book hopes to experience to the book. this. Now women know if Each chapter discusses
bring it to the forefront of She lost her twin girls when they're pregnant early on, specific aspects of preg-
our cultural discussions. she was 22 weeks preg- which can lead to expec- nancy loss, including early
Written by British psycho- nant. The miscarriage was tations and bonding to miscarriage, IVF, funerals
therapist Julia Bueno, so devastating that Bueno their unborn. "The notion of and memorials.
whose specialty is pregnan- changed careers to focus a relationship existing with Those who have been
cy loss, comes "The Brink of on helping women cope our unborn — however de- touched by miscarriage
Being: Talking about Mis- with pregnancy loss. veloped in the womb he or will surely find this book a
carriage." "There is an entrenched be- she may be — took pitifully great resource outlining
Discussions about miscar- lief that a bond with a child long," she writes. the emotional landscape
riage have evolved signifi- This cover image released can only really begin after An estimated one in four after pregnancy loss or as a
cantly in recent years, but by Penguin Books shows "The a familiar-looking baby is pregnancies ends spon- guide to better understand
Bueno hopes to push the Brink of Being: Talking About born alive, and we still have taneously. Miscarriage is what a woman might be
dialogue further. Until 1980, Miscarriage," by Julia Bueno. a way to go before it fully an experience that of- enduring.q
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