'Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.,' Jill Wine-Banks' memoir and 6 more books not to miss
Here's the lowdown on eight books definitely worth a read. University of Illinois Press, nonfiction, $24.95 What it's about: This mix of biography and history documents the influence of the magazine founded in Chicago in 1945 by John H. Johnson and how that grew under executive editor Lerone Bennett Jr., who died in 2018.