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Heading the wealthiest black business in the United States and generally considered the most powerful black businessman in the nation, John H. Johnson is an entrepreneur. His family-owned business empire currently includes Ebony, Jet, and EM: Ebony Man magazines; a book-publishing company specializing in black culture and history; WJPC-AM, Chicago (acquired in 1972 as WGRT, Chicago's first and only black-owned radio station), WLNR-FM, Lansing, Illinois (acquired in 1985), and WLOU-AM, Louisville, Kentucky (acquired in 1982); the Ebony/Jet Showcase television series (premiered in 1983); Fashion Fair Cosmetics, sold in more than fifteen hundred U.S. department stores and abroad; Supreme Beauty Products for the hair (Duke for men, Raveen for women); and Ebony Fashion Fair, the world's largest touring fashion show with a mail-order fashion catalogue, begun in 1959. His cosmetics line began when he discovered that makeup in shades suitable for Fashion Fair models did not exist, and he could not interest Revlon or Estée Lauder in its manufacture.
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