Amazing Cover Photos of Black Stars Magazine in the 1970s

   

Black Stars was a monthly magazine published by the Johnson Publishing Company, one of the largest African-American-owned publishing firms in the United States.

 
 
Black Stars magazine covers in the 1970s
 
Launched in 1971, the purpose of Black Stars was to provide an entertainment magazine focused almost solely on the careers of living black artists. In their premier issue John H. Johnson outlined the aims of the magazine:
Black Stars will be entertaining, informative, factual, intimate and lively and will deal almost exclusively with the lives and careers of great, living black entertainers. Many of the articles featured in the magazine will be written by the stars themselves.”
In publication ceased in 1981, according to the then vice-president of the publishing company, June A. Rhinehart, this was due to a drop in readership and decrease in advertising revenues. Here below is a set of amazing photos that shows covers of the Black Stars in the 1970s.
 
James Brown, October 1972

 

Bill Withers, August 1974

 

Bobby Womack, May 1974

 

Nancy Wilson, October 1974

 

The O'Jays, December 1974

 

Tina Turner, January 1974

 

Aretha Franklin, August 1975

 

Stevie Wonder, April 1975

 

The Jackson Family, September 1975

 

Johnnie Taylor, August 1976

 

Mary McCreary, March 1976

 

Michael Jackson, November 1976

 

Dionne Warwick and Isaac Hayes, May 1977

 

Gladys Knight and Barry Hankerson, January 1977

 

Jim Brown, September 1977

 

Pam Grier, November 1977

 

Tina Andrews, March 1977

 

Al Green, May 1978

 

Billy Dee Williams, September 1978

 

Chaka Khan, May 1978

 

Deniece Williams & Johnny Mathis, June 1978

 

Natalie Cole, February 1978

 

Ashford & Simpson, December 1979

 

Donna Summer, November 1979

 

Peaches and Herb, July 1979

 

 
Tina Turner, February 1979