• The Negro Digest, later renamed Black World, was a magazine for the African-American market. Founded in November 1942 by publisher John H. Johnson of Johnson...
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  • secretary. His news compilation exposed him to Black newspapers, inspiring Negro Digest and gaining him social prominence. Johnson began to wonder if other people...
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    Negro Digest 1962. "The Negro's Role in American Culture: A Symposium". Negro Digest 1963. "The Negro Writer in America: A Symposium". Negro Digest 1963...
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  • Press, 1966. "Traffic Jam" in Negro Digest, vol. 15, no. 9 (July 1966), 69–78. "Mint Juleps Not Served Here" in Negro Digest, vol. 16, no. 5 (March 1967)...
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  • inspired "Adolph Hartner", and the British Tippy Skittles K.C.V.B. The Negro Digest positively reviewed the album in their September 1963 issue, highlighting...
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  • Together with her husband, she established The Negro Digest in 1942, a magazine styled after Reader's Digest. The rapid growth of their first publication...
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    Spanish Slave Laws", Negro Digest, March 1969. "Africans in the Americas", Negro Digest, March 1969. "Rural, Black College", Negro Digest, March 1969. "Junkie...
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  • company published their first magazine, Negro Digest. Negro Digest, which was modeled after the Reader's Digest was published from November 1942 until...
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    several glossy monthly magazines including Negro Digest (1942, renamed Black World), Ebony (1945) and Negro Achievements (1947, renamed Sepia) began to...
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    ISSN 0021-5996. Labrie, Peter (April 1968). "The Flame That Died". Black World/Negro Digest. Vol. 17, no. 6. Otfinoski, Steven (2003). African Americans in the Performing...
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    June 8, 1982) was an American professional baseball pitcher who played in Negro league baseball and Major League Baseball (MLB). His career spanned five...
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  • Carter (April 1962). "Leadbelly – A Fighting, Wenching, Singing Man". Negro Digest. XI (6): 20. Wolfe 1968, p. 102 Bowden 2006, p. xiii. Marshall, John...
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  • Sing", Negro Digest, 15.2 (December 1965), pp. 65–69. "The Sign", Negro Digest, 15.4 (February 1966), pp. 61–66. "Summer Sunday", Negro Digest, 15.11...
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  • Negro Digest in June 1969. Her collection Can I Poet With You, appeared in 1969 and was awarded the 1970 Conrad Kent Rivers Memorial Award by Negro Digest...
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    Community College of Baltimore County, she published "Marigolds" in Negro Digest, and it won the inaugural Gwendolyn Brooks Prize for Fiction in 1969;...
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    (March 6, 1984), Section 3:2. Hirshey 2006, p. 87. Jet 1964, p. 37. Negro Digest 1964, p. 13. Jet 1963, p. 42. Solomon Burke: Everybody Needs Somebody...
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  • of California Press. ISBN 9780520227743 – via Google Books. "Negro Digest". Negro Digest Publishing Company. November 20, 1945 – via Google Books. Rollins...
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    Afro-American poetry." Bernard W. Bell, "The Debt to Black Music", Black World/Negro Digest March 1973, p. 86. Allen Ginsberg commented: "His interest in techniques...
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  • black publications (including the Chicago Daily Defender, Ebony, Jet and Negro Digest) and a public relations executive in Chicago. He was a “top executive...
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  • 1946, moved to Honolulu, Hawaii. In a 1974 interview with Black World/Negro Digest, Davis said they had been attracted to the place because of a magazine...
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    via YouTube. The African Scene, a column on page 40 of the magazine Negro Digest, cover dated April, 1964. "Zik's first son Chukwuma dies at 75". vanguardngr...
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  • he became editor of The Negro Digest, resurrecting the publication after a 10 year hiatus. Fuller, unsatisfied with the digest format of the magazine,...
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    Jet (magazine) (category Digests)
    operations to LA". Chicagotribune.com. Retrieved June 8, 2019. "From Negro Digest to Ebony, Jet and EM". Ebony. Johnson Publishing Company. November 1992...
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    Encyclopedia.com". encyclopedia.com. Retrieved April 18, 2021. "Negro Digest". Negro Digest Publishing Company. December 1, 1945 – via Google Books. Clark...
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    Racial Future, p. 96. ISBN 9780465043958. "Books Noted". Negro Digest: 52. June 1964. "The Negro Question". The New York Times. April 25, 1903. Retrieved...
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  • Jazeera, 2 September 2014. Randall, Dudley: Review of House of Bondage, Negro Digest, February 1968, p. 94. "House of Bondage". protestinphotobook.com. Cole...
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  • Retrieved 2025-04-03. Black World/Negro Digest. Johnson Publishing Company. May 1969. p. 50. Black World/Negro Digest. Johnson Publishing Company. May...
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     160. Monfried, Walter, "The Slave Who Became King: Henri Christophe", Negro Digest, Volume XII, Number 12, October, 1963. Clammer, Paul (2023). Black Crown...
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    report: on black theatre in America". Negro Digest. 19 (6). Chicago, Illinois: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc.: 36. "Negro version of 'Couple' to open". Los...
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  • at age 53. DeKnight's obituary appeared in the August 1963 issue of Negro Digest. It was titled "Tribute To A Lady Titan." Noting her role in revamping...
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