Jet (magazine)

Jet is an American weekly digital magazine focusing on news, culture, and entertainment related to the African-American community. Founded in print by John H. Johnson in November 1951 in Chicago, Illinois, the magazine was billed as “The Weekly Negro News Magazine”. As publisher, the Johnson Publishing Company created Jet magazine to offer Black Americans proper representation, noting under-representation of African Americans in the general media. Jet chronicled the civil rights movement from its earliest years, including the murder of Emmett Till, the Montgomery bus boycott, and the activities of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.