Wednesday, June 13, 2007

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King magazine is a monthly men's magazine geared toward African-American and urban audiences. It features articles about Hip-Hop and R&B, as well as articles covering sports and fashion. The magazine is mainly characterised by its lavish photoshoots, which usually feature scantily-clad women of color, often complete with an interview from the featured model. The subjects of these shoots range from professional models to well known musicians and actresses. The magazine is known for its disdain for the "Stick-figured" women used as models in other men's magazines, and often promotes the buxom and curvaceous figures of its models. The magazine almost exclusively uses pictures from these photoshoots as the cover of the magazine. It also features its cover with rappers sometimes, but mostly women from models to female rappers, including Trina, Keyshia Cole, Rocsi and former video vixen Melyssa Ford.


The magazine is sometimes called "The black Maxim" The Lycos 50 Daily Report noted the magazine received more online searches than Newsweek or Reader's Digest.[1]

The King Library and Archives in Atlanta is the world’s largest repository of primary source materials on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the American Civil Rights Movement. Significant records which document the social, cultural, economic, and political impact of the civil rights movement are housed at the King Library and Archives.

The King Library and Archives’ mission is to promote the appropriate application of archival principles in the preservation, processing, and description of materials relevant to the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the modern civil rights movement. The King Library and Archives serves to:

  • Promote research on the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the modern civil rights movement
  • Acquire, promote, and preserve information produced by or about Dr. King and the modern civil rights movement
  • Promote dissemination of information on Dr. King and the modern civil rights museum through the preparation of brochures, guides, exhibits, and on The King Center’s website

The collection of the King Library and Archives consists of the papers of Dr. King and those of the organization that he co-founded, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The Archives also hold the records of nine major civil rights organizations and the records of several individuals active in the civil rights movement. In addition, the Archives include more than 200 oral history interviews with Dr. King’s teachers, friends, family, and civil rights associates. These holdings today serve as the main link to understanding the events of the civil rights movement. The King Library and Archives has played a crucial role in assuring the survival and preservation of many of the documents and artifacts of the civil rights movement through several documentation efforts.


Major Collections

Organizational Records

  1. The Papers of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) (1944-1968)
  2. The Records of the Coordinating Council of Community Organizations (1944-1968)
  3. The Records of the Delta Ministry (1964-1968)
  4. The Records f the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) (1964-1965)
  5. The National Lawyers Guild Records (NLG)* (1936-1968)
  6. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Records (1954-1970)
  7. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Records (1959-1972)
  8. The Records of the United States National Students Association Southern Project (1957-1969)

Manuscript Collections

  1. The Papers of J. T. Alexander (1891-1960s)
  2. The Papers of Randolph Battle (1962-1968)
  3. The Julian Bond Papers (1964-1968)
  4. The Ben Brown Papers (1956-1979)
  5. The Papers of Johnny Carr (1956-1979)
  6. The Septima P. Clark Papers (1963-1967)
  7. The Papers of Fred Gray (1956-1964)
  8. The Papers of Hazel Gregory (1956-1965)
  9. The Papers of Hamilton Holmes (1955-1964)
  10. The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.* (1929-1968)
  11. The Papers of Howard Moore (1964-1968)
  12. The Papers of Fred W. Shuttleworth (1953-1969)

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