Ebony (magazine)

===1985–2005===
The magazine reached unprecedented levels of popularity, with marketers estimating that ''Ebony'' reached over 40% of the African-American adults in the United States during the 1980s, a feat unmatched by any other general–interest magazine at the time.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Staples |first1=Brent |title=The Radical Blackness of Ebony Magazine |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/11/opinion/ebony-jet-magazine.html |work=The New York Times |date=11 August 2019 }}</ref> Beginning in the mid-1970s, advertisers created customized ads for the magazine which featured African-American models using their products.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pollay |first1=Richard W. |last2=Lee |first2=Jung S. |last3=Carter-Whitney |first3=David |title=Separate, but Not Equal: Racial Segmentation in Cigarette Advertising |journal=Journal of Advertising |date=March 1992 |volume=21 |issue=1 |pages=45–57 |doi=10.1080/00913367.1992.10673359 }}</ref> In 1985, ''Ebony Man'', a monthly men's magazine was created, printing the first issue in September 1985.<ref name="sat" /> By ''Ebony'''s 40th anniversary in November 1985, it had a circulation of 1.7 million.<ref name=NYTS/>