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Sports Illustrated Sends Blacks to Back of Book (photos)
14 February 2010 2:14 PM, PST | TheImproper.com | See recent TheImproper.com news »
More than 70 percent of professional athletes are African American, but you wouldn’t know it by reading the latest issue of Sport’s Illustrated’s much ballyhooed swimsuit issue. The 184-page issue, the magazine’s most profitable, boasts 18 models, but only two are African American and you won’t see them until page 140. Sports Illustrated has been publishing the swimsuit issue since 1964, and Tyra Banks has been the only African American model to grace the cover . She appeared in 1996, but shared the cover with model Valeria Mazza, who is white. »
- kgirard@theimproper.com (Keith Girard)
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