We know in our hearts that none of us get ahead when some of us are stuck with second-class status.

The magazines were born out of a need that my parents saw: that there were no magazines that really spoke to black people. 'Ebony' wrote about architects and artists, the share cropper who sent his nine kids to college, real African Americans at a time when everyone else only covered them as entertainers and athletes.

My family has always made Chicago our home, and I care deeply about the values our company has espoused for decades.

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