Black World Vol. XXIV No. 7: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

The May 1975 issue of Black World magazine. The title appears across the top of the cover in white text against a black background: [Black World / May 1975 A Johnson Publication 75cents]. The cover features a bright orange rendition of the continent of Africa over two black-and-white photographs. The top image depicts young men and women in a classroom seated at typewriters. The bottom image depicts a crowd of standing men. Within the outline of Africa are the headlines [United States / Ecology of Inequality: / An American Dilemma / Africa / Southern African Detente: / What Does It Mean? / Pan-Africanism: / The Tyranny of a / Purist Ideology / Israel / Original Hebrew / Israelite Nation: / An Interview. The interior contents include the cover feature articles along with features on the Senegalese sculptor Lamidi Fakeye, the Colombian artist Cogollo, poetry by Frank Marshall Davis, and a fiction work by Bari Barrow. There are 88 pages total. The back cover has an article on the Senegalese intellectual Alioune Diop accompanied by a full-length black-and-white photograph portrait of Diop standing in front of a framed painting of another man.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: May 1975
• Published by: Johnson Publishing Company, American, 1942 - 2019
• Type: pamphlets
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. (19.1 x 13.3 cm)
• Place printed: Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Senegal, West Africa, Africa
• Place depicted: South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
• Place depicted: Colombia, Latin America, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Africa
• Topic: Art
• Topic: Black Press
• Topic: International affairs
• Topic: Judaism
• Topic: Mass media
• Topic: Poetry
• Object number: 2010.55.128
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the family of Dr. Maurice Jackson and Laura Ginsburg
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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