POST THE JET MAGAZINE FROM THE WEEK YOU WERE BORN.
I've investigated several of the covers people have sent. Let's talk about some of them+
First off, this entire thread from a 1955 issue of Jet is buckwild. https://twitter.com/ItsTheBrandi/status/1294770271661043712
This KFC x MLK ad.

Uh... https://twitter.com/JazminsThoughts/status/1294743807410544640
The same shit, different decade collection.
The same shit, different decade collection.
The same shit, different decade collection.
The same shit, different decade collection.
Oh okay, Stevie. https://twitter.com/ItsTheBrandi/status/1294733285495627776
We tired. https://twitter.com/ItsTheBrandi/status/1294778969896755200
"Should black actors be cast in roles written for whites?"
Google Books has the entire archives (with some exceptions) of Jet magazine. So you can go look there. Editing the URL numbers to go further back faster might help when you hit "browse all issues."
This Mariah cover is so disrespectful. https://twitter.com/OldAssMike/status/1294738841455038464
*ignores Bill Cosby* I want to talk about every article.
Let's find out who the "young whites" in this article are+
Let's find out who the "young whites" in this article are+
Let's find out who the "young whites" in this article are+
Let's find out who the "young whites" in this article are+
Let's find out who the "young whites" in this article are+
Continued from previous tweet.

https://books.google.com/books?id=_rkDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA26&dq=jet+young+whites+biased&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj5zPPSvJ7rAhUEa80KHSEBCc0Q6AEwAHoECAMQAQ#v=onepage&q=jet%20young%20whites%20biased&f=false
#LocalAngle
When *are* they too old? Let's skip over that question.
I need to know more about this baby who turned grey.

That baby wasn't fully gray! I feel cheated.

https://books.google.com/books?id=nrADAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&rview=1&lr=#v=onepage&q&f=false
I need to know more about this baby who turned grey. That baby wasn't fully gray! I feel cheated. https://books.google.com/books?id=nrADAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&rview=1&lr=#v=onepage&q&f=false
I need to know more about this baby who turned grey. That baby wasn't fully gray! I feel cheated. https://books.google.com/books?id=nrADAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&rview=1&lr=#v=onepage&q&f=false
At least Whodini didn't perform Accidental Racist. https://twitter.com/JDWenzel/status/1294801335326392320
What a cover story.
Your mama is the reason we ran out of black tap dancers in the 80s. I hope she knows what she did!

This is roughly when I quit tap dancing, btw.
I love everything Barry is wearing here. And it's a lot.
Spoiler alert: Reagan was not good for the blacks.
Just asked my mom when they first put dark skinned women on the cover of Jet. Her guess is late 60s. Let's find out.
She's wrong. So far seeing them in the early 60s. Haven't gone back further.
Sorry I gotta know where people make love in 1951 and how negro beauties be charmin'! https://books.google.com/books?id=I0MDAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&rview=1&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
When the Democratic party started getting less white. 1951 issue.

https://books.google.com/books?id=I0MDAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&rview=1&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Segregation bad for mental health. https://books.google.com/books?id=I0MDAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&rview=1&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Incredible retraction. Eleanor Roosevelt messed up big time. https://books.google.com/books?id=I0MDAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&rview=1&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
This 1951 article about where people have sex is some good content.

https://books.google.com/books?id=I0MDAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&rview=1&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
This 1951 article about where people have sex is some good content. https://books.google.com/books?id=I0MDAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&rview=1&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
This 1951 article about where people have sex is some good content. https://books.google.com/books?id=I0MDAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&rview=1&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
This 1951 article about where people have sex is some good content. https://books.google.com/books?id=I0MDAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&rview=1&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
This 1951 article about where people have sex is some good content. https://books.google.com/books?id=I0MDAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&rview=1&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Communism vs the Negro.
Does it work? I don't know but it's Eartha Kitt!
May 1965 "Hope GOP Rids Itself Of Racists..."
😬😬😬
https://books.google.com/books?id=wcIDAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&rview=1&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
North Carolina A&T had these men on the MOST high-carb diet. https://books.google.com/books?id=wcIDAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&rview=1&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
January 3, 1980 Jet predicted the next generation of blacks was gonna be the baddest, most revolutionary and bitterest.
https://books.google.com/books?id=NrcDAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&rview=1&lr=#v=onepage&q&f=false
January 3, 1980

John Lewis quit his job to run for a house seat. I think it worked out well for him!

https://books.google.com/books?id=NrcDAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&rview=1&lr=#v=onepage&q&f=false
I HOLLERED at this story about Grace Jones' kid.

https://books.google.com/books?id=NrcDAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&rview=1&lr=#v=onepage&q&f=false
1. Stop doing creepy shit. It will help.
Wow.
Uh...what, Dominique?
They just look fun as hell.
They just look fun as hell.
They just look fun as hell.
My favorite headline genre is just "Did you know this is a black stereotype? It might be true."
The world may never know.
That Paris fashion expert was probably just into black women and was like, "I have determined that ze negro knees are the best, how about a date?"
Bro, what? How do we have special knees? My knees are my worst attribute.
Bro, what? How do we have special knees? My knees are my worst attribute.
Bro, what? How do we have special knees? My knees are my worst attribute.
Jet headlines, ranked:

1. This celebrity fucks!
2. Did you know this very random stereotype about black people? We wrote a flimsy article about it.
3. Racism: it's bad y'all...see you in 10 years to run this same story
4. This celebrity is fucked!
The Jet Weekly Almanac back in the day feels like a compendium of every absolutely insane story my grandma ever told me about back in the day when her and my grandpa hung out with their friends. https://twitter.com/ItsTheBrandi/status/1294774420138070017
My grandma once opened a story with "My cousin [from out of town] told me I couldnt drink as much as him" and then proceeded to tell a tale that involved 151 and ended with "when i got out of bed to check on him, he was gone and i never saw him again."

He got on a bus...maybe?
Twitter will sort this out 3 decades later.
Wow, wow, wow! Thurgood Marshall's wealth compared to the rest of SCOTUS in 1989. https://twitter.com/Melknee/status/1295013693693005825
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