Ebony magazine cover of Cosby!

[marylander1940]

There was a time when it was de rigueur for black American households to have a subscription to Ebony magazine. Its pages were one of the only places in media where black families could see their faces, lives and interests reflected back at them.

 

And then came "The Cosby Show," the holy grail of media portrayals of African-American family life.

 

That's what makes the November cover of Ebony, which features an early portrait of Bill Cosby's TV family overlaid by shattered glass, so powerful and such a lightning rod for conversations within the community about Cosby's legacy.

 

Dozens of allegations of sexual misconduct against Cosby, denied vigorously by attorneys for the entertainer, have tarnished his reputation as a family man, and may have also erased his show's influence over not only African-Americans, but all Americans.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/16/entertainment/bill-cosby-ebony-shattered-cover-feat/

 

http://cdn.straightfromthea.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Cosby-Show-Ebony-Cover-Then-and-Now--520x319.png

 

http://d236bkdxj385sg.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/nov2_article-wide_53617.jpg

 

http://elc.byu.edu/elc/student/idioms/proverbs/images/pic_thousand_words.jpg

[samandtham]

After New York magazine profiled 35 women who have accused Bill Cosby of various offenses, here's another powerful cover. I am looking forward to reading the story(ies) in this issue.