ebony
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In an August 1978 essay for Ebony, he observed that if the rising generation of black youth hoped to “close the gap and catch up” in income and education, their priority should be discipline:
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026
Ebony London, 37, found her mom friends through a Houston Facebook group.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026
And each year, when the twinkling holiday lights fade to a hazy glow and the gingerbread is nothing more than crumbs, I thank copyright law for giving me my favorite Christmas tradition: Ebony Scrooge.
From Salon • Dec. 24, 2025
For something like “Game Changer,” which Dropout’s supervising producer Ebony Elaine Hardin describes as “self-contained chaos,” the show is in constant development.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2025
The sharpest of all were the big-time Harlem gamblers in white dinner jackets, elegantly stepping with glittering women who looked as though they posed for the advertisements in Ebony magazine.
From "The Contender" by Robert Lipsyte
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