I've gotten so bored of doing opening shifts in the morning that I started looking at vintage jet magazine articles on google from the 60's/70's to entertain myself. Found lots of cool black stuff

Vintage black lesbians!!

i don't agree with the part about lightskinned people but i love the other part

Comrade Chaka?

Black American magazine showing solidarity with African decolonial struggles. The international implications that has

Jet's inside story on Cuba

This article said Juan Almeida was a songwriter and had a hit song in Cuba while carrying out the revolution

US trained Portuguese soldiers getting their ass beat by African freedom fighters

Black people really are the biggest stunts and I live for it. Imagine not only fleeing the country that oppresses you, but also meeting with that country's enemies. Robert Williams hanging out with Mao exposed some of America's contradictions to the world

Jet magazine reporting on the Soviet Union throughout the years

Early 70's reporting on the health benefits of pot, CIA drug trafficking, and COINTELPRO.

Jet magazine article about Dr. Martin Luther King's Beyond Vietnam speech

Another Black minister during the war, Rev. Philip Lawson, pointed out the connection between Black and Vietnamese struggle

Tribute to Malcolm X

1953 article about a not so well known Black trans woman. I wish I knew more about her. I wonder if she ever got to go to Europe and transition...

and to think, I found all this when I was just tryna read Diana Ross's old Jet interviews

I really feel like I have to add this one after seeing an interview with Naomi Campbell saying she goes days without eating every week. I think that's silly to have money and choose not to eat lol. So here's Aretha Franklin saying fuck all that

Kathleen Cleaver of the Black Panther Party being escorted to North Korea in 1970 to seek quality medical care during her pregnancy.

This was back when Kim Jong-Un's grandfather, Kim Il-Sung was the country's leader. But wow, what a moment.

Adding to this fun thread

Can we start back doing this

white feminism! Break that glass ceiling ladies for you too can be a white nationalist

Bobby Seale on capitalism

Western support for apartheid

Jackson 5 visit to Senegal

Ebony article about Black people living in the Soviet Union in 1960. Very American centric but interesting. https://books.google.com/books?id=EsUeOG9n1fYC&pg=PA65&dq=how+negroes+live+in+Russia&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj5isP-pYHlAhXtmOAKHfVIBHcQ6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=how%20negroes%20live%20in%20Russia&f=false

June 10th 1976 Jet issue.

The Soul Brothers Top 20 was created to compete with Billboard and showcase the music that Black Jet readers preferred. What a blast from the past

One of my favorite vocalists Minnie Riperton was born today! The good sis was a early advocate for weed legalization

Sylvester

Langston Hughes birthday is on the first day of black history month. He was a black communist poet who I assume was also a bottom

Huey Newton explains how some Black people accumulating large amounts of wealth can actually be a bad thing for the Black community

Random but I was looking at jet magazine again and apparently they did an article on Katherine Johnson and the other people from "Hidden Figures" in 1961. I don't care about nasa so I haven't read it but I thought it was interesting that they were not "hidden" in black media

billie holiday having a rare moment of joy in switzerland, 1954

eldridge cleaver explains why he became a conservative republican. he said he was turned off by the authoritarian nature of communist governments. maybe it was the anti rape laws that bothered him

cuba, july 2008

1st pic: woman trying to leave crowded vegetable shop. it looks like a party lol

2nd pic: block party, the article said folks were listening to dead prez, common, the roots, talib kweli

3rd pic: student led anti imperialist rally

reading old jet magazine articles taught me that we’ve been debating about the same things for decades

“all they’re doing is promoting wanton sex behavior. everybody knows about sex. i like songs that have a message.” - some guy from the Spinners

“the record business is a particularly interesting and glaring example of pervasive racism, since it has grown fat off the creative impulses and culture of Black people.”