Throwback Wednesdays: Cover Parade
Remember when girl groups wore clothes and could actually sing?
Remember when Jayne and Leon Kennedy were the original Jay Z and Beyonce?
Remember when you wanted to pinch Gary Coleman’s cheeks?
Remember when Michael Jackson was still black?
Remember when we still cared what made OJ Simpson run?
Remember when professional athletes like Sugar Ray Leonard still married their high school sweethearts?
Remember when Mike Tyson was considered a sex symbol?
Photos: courtesy of Johnson Publishing
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I love this post. I hope you do one every week.
Remember when people wore Buttons on their clothes with their favorite celeb.
ie Michael Jackso, Prince, New Edition
Lebron is still with his high school sweetheart and Chris Pauls girl was with him in college I think. She just had her baby. He is a cutie.
Is Sugar Ray still married to that same wife? If so that’s nice if not thats the way the cookie crumbles sometimes
When was Mike Tyson a sex symbol?
No to all of the above…..
@ 3, i was 8 in 89 but he DOES look kinda good in that pic
Tyson was a sex symbol to gold digger’s and deaf women .. he lost any possibility of being sexy as SOON as he opened his mouth… just ludacrithssss … lol
Unlike Jayne, Beyonce paid for her sextape not be released lol.
Great post Sandra!
I remember a few of these covers. remember when ebony and jet were relevant?
@8
Nope cant say i do
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I like the jacksons a LOT i liked this pic made me happy *puts in destiny*
Johnson Publishing Company partnered with Google to digitize its magazine archives. If you are a Jet, Ebony, and/or Black World/Negro Digest magazine reader from back in the day, just click below:
http://charactercorner.blogspot.com/2009/03/johnson-publishing-company-introduces.html
I love Sister Sledge. “We are family!!” They still look good today.
looks back at the jackson’s wardrobe .. who was the designer back then .. Liberace and BeDazzle .. cause mikey got on some dayum beaded and sequined PANTS …
Hello All. Ahhhh, these pics bring back pleasant memories. I often comment on our black younguns today and how most look, act and sound like heathens but I must admit, a lot of their problems steams from our problems back in the day, and then we became parents. We wanted so much for our children to have MORE than we did. MORE should have been more education, more respect, and more guidance and love, not necessarily material things. My husband often tells me that black folks have plenty of hindsight. How true, how true. But we must NEVER give up on our younguns. After all, they are our future. (That’s most of you on this board, peace.)
dis some old azz shyt….I really can’t even comment?
LUV that Jackson’s album ‘Destiny’
LOL @ Kymystry!!
Bedazzle. I always love reading your posts cause you always have something hilarious to say!!!
Krysi did you check your email?
I heart this post
@10
I went WOW
hes the greatest dancer!!!!!
Sister sledge was mediocre at singing to be honest but chic the production was amazing
That cover with the Jacksons is HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!!! LOL
I wonder if Michael Jackson looks at these old pictures and want to cry. He must not allow any mirrors in his house. He has to regret doing that to himself. Can’t he sue the doctor that did that to him. Poor baby.
Looking like Powder.
Chin looking like a wooden doll.
Let me stop bc I loves me some MJ.
I like this post - I was young but remember this. I still have my MJ clock in the cabinet above my cabinet. My daughter said who is that…still thinks I’m lying when I tell her MJ
Krysi did you check your email?
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I just wrote you back…sorry I didn’t read the comments in that post you left the message in up until a few minutes ago
@ Isc….I love MJ too, but he’s still looking like Casper the fruity ghost on prozac wearing his Mama’s GOOD wig, and Latoya’s GOOD nose…..it just ain no way…ain no way
LORD please give me the patience, the kindess, and all the love I need to raise my son right I would never forgive myself if he turned out or more like TURNED “INTO” THAT!
Sandra you had me until…..the Mike Tyson sex symbol comment. He wasn’t anything but the best boxer alive in my neck of the woods. I didn’t hear anyone saying they wanted Iron Mike.
These are old covers, look like 80s which means what they are wearing now was the chit back then. Take out some of your old pictures and see what you were wearing in the 80s. I know I always get a good laugh from old pictures.
iscream Says:
I wonder if Michael Jackson looks at these old pictures and want to cry.
Looking like Powder.
Chin looking like a wooden doll.
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LOL. Powder, lol.
Looking at MJ from back in the day to what he is now makes ME sad, so I know it has to affect him.
LOVE IT SANDRA !!!!!!
CHIC were Amazing !!!
Nile Rodgers & Bernard Edwards (R.I.P.) hooked people up with some of the coldest hits (Big-Time !!!)
OMG at Michae. It hurts my heart. I honestly thought I was going to marry that man when I was 5 lol
lmao at melinla’s daughter
Jayne and Leon Kennedy, never heard of them
Look at Mike when he was still black…………..
Remember when Mike Tyson was considered a sex symbol?
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No, I don’t
Naima, no disrespect but are you joking? Seriously you never heard of Jayne Kennedy? Wow, I thought everybody’s mom wanted to be like Jayne or Pam Grier.
I still like the Jackson 5.
Shany
Sandra you had me until…..the Mike Tyson sex symbol comment. He wasn’t anything but the best boxer alive in my neck of the woods. I didn’t hear anyone saying they wanted Iron Mike.
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Co-sign, lol.
These covers went way back. Thanks for the link attorneymom.
Sometimes all you can do is give Naima a head shake and a teeth smack…lol She reminds me of Mullet sometimes.
Shauny .. me thinks you might be on to something …lol
I am not joking and I don’t recall my mom wanting to be like anyone. She was a grown azz woman with kids living real life. What movie was Jayne Kennedy in?
nodding @ #38…
DYING @ iscream…. you need to quit.. two days in a row.. Powder…LOL….friggin powder
@ Naima…Jayne Kennedy was the Halle Berry (as far as beauty is concerned) before Halle Berry was even thought of.
Seriously, men lost their minds over her…I think my Dad even had a crush on her too LOL!!! Also she has been mentioned in alot of rap songs too…most notable is Mos Def’s “Ms. Phat Booty”.
I honestly think my Grandmama had all of these Ebony mags in her basement lololol…I remember seeing the Mike Tyson and Gary Coleman mags after she passed a few years ago. I should have kept some of them forreal…
“Ms. Phat Booty” was THE CUT …
My mother used to LOOOVVVVVVEEEE Sugar Ray. But I remember a LOT of these covers. My folks used to have these spread out across the coffee table. LMAO
@Attymom….I’m never gonna get work done now! Thanks so much for the link. I feel re-connected with my childhood today.
@Yvonne…I think our parents bought coffee tables just so they could have somewhere to spread these magazines out! LOL
@43 yep! MTV Jams still plays the video sometimes.
Naima, adding to what #42 said she was like Vanessa Williams before we’d ever heard of Vanessa Williams. She was a model, actress, sports caster (who remembers that). She was (I believe) the first black woman to get the cover of Playboy, to rank in the finals of Miss USA. That’s all that I can remember. Then she married Leon Kennedy (can you say Penitentiary…lol Yall know yall loved those movies. They were like the 80s Will and Jada.
OMG ‘Penitentiary’ was some of FUNNIEST S-H-I-T I’ve ever seen
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Naima if we’re are talking about our moms they I believe they were all grownazz women with kids hence being moms.
i still break out my “off the wall” album cover sometimes to look back on when mike was not the middle aged white woman he has become. my daughter never knows of the time when he was black. and THAT is some sad shyt.
that tyson cover was from when he was beating robin givens AZZ. i still see in my mind how scared she was on barbara walters…..
sister sledge. they better work. my fave was kathy.
Good one Sandra you made me smile looking at that today!
THIS POST WAS FAB!!!
Loved it!!!
Check out Michael he’s starting to fade back then.
You mean coffee tables aren’t for spreading magazines out on ????? Dayum!!!
I remember Jayne Kennedy being hawt. Never did know how Leon Kennedy was. I LOVED Sugar Ray Leonard. I thought he was so cute when I was little.
Jayne Kennedy is married to a real estate developer, beautiful daughters. Penetiary was funny as hell, all parts. Remember the scene where the guy’s piece of ass had to sit down to piss. If he stood up and pissed, the boyfriend would whoop his ass.
TEAM TOO SWEET