Two years ago, model and businesswoman Beverly Johnson wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post looking back on some history she had made 46 years earlier. In August 1974, Johnson became the first Black woman to be featured on the cover of Vogue magazine.
But Johnson was not in a nostalgic mood. The fashion and beauty industry, she noted, had changed little from the exclusionary place it was almost 50 years ago.
“Black culture contributes enormously to the fashion industry,” Johnson wrote.
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