![]() ![]() "Lerone was not just essential in the formation of Ebony's historic trajectory, he was a pillar in the black community."īennett chronicled the civil rights movement. "He was the guiding light for the editorial vision of Ebony," Ebony CEO Linda Johnson Rice said Wednesday. Bennett went on to work at the Atlanta Daily World before joining Jet and then Ebony magazine. ![]() Bennett went on to edit the student newspaper at Morehouse College, where he went to school with Martin Luther King Jr. He graduated from Lanier High School where he worked on the school newspaper. More: Celebrate black history by promoting black ownershipīennett was born in Clarksdale and grew up in Jackson, Mississippi. Jesse Jackson on Thursday called Bennett an "activist historian" and said "a global force for justice he was, a mighty pen he had." Ebony magazine tells the Chicago Sun-Times that Bennett had vascular dementia. Rayner and Sons Funeral Home in Chicago said Thursday that Bennett died Tuesday. ![]() Watch Video: The history of Black History MonthĬHICAGO - Mississippi native Lerone Bennett Jr., an African-American history author and former editor of Ebony magazine, has died at age 89.Ī.A. ![]()
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