Ebony Looks Forward
In early November, Ebony.com introduced The Ebony Collection, an
online shop that sells framed prints of 2,000 photos selected from the
magazine’s million-image archive. Reprinted from the original negatives stored
in a climate-controlled room, the images were selected by Ms. Johnson Rice, who
spent months poring over her father’s original commissions. “We kept
everything,” Ms. Johnson Rice said. “Every major event that’s happened to
African-Americans since 1945, with Ebony as a repository for all those
photographs and as a voice for all that happened."