Best of Emerge Magazine

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The 1990s. African Americans achieved more influenceand faced more explosive issuesthan ever before. One word captured those times. One magazine expressed them.Emerge. In those ten years, with an impressive circulation of 170,000 and more than forty national awards to its credit,Emergebecame a serious part of the American mainstream.Timehailed its "uncompromising voice."TheWashingtonPostdeclared thatEmerge"gets better with each issue." Then, after nearly a decade,Emergemagazine closed its doors. Now, for the first time, here's a collection of the finest articles from a publication that changed the face of African American news. From the Clarence Thomas nomination to the Bill Clinton impeachment . . . from the life of Louis Farrakhan to the death of Betty Shabazz . . . from reparations for slavery to the rise of blacks on Wall Street . . . the most important people, topics, and turning points of this remarkable period are featured in incisive articles by first-rate writers. Emergemay have ended with the millennium, butas this incomparable volume provesthe quality of its coverage is still unequaled, the extent of its impact still emerging. Stirring tribute, uncanny time capsule, riveting readThe Best ofEmergeMagazine is also the best of American journalism.