At the age of seventeen, I picked up my first issue of Jive Magazine. I was in a drug store. I thought I had stumbled upon a pot of gold. I flipped through the pages, with the cheesy photos, eyes widened, fascinated to find a magazine filled with stories, written for and about people of color.
My mother wasn’t so thrilled about my new reading material and warned me never to bring “Those Magazines into her house.” She believed the stories approved of sexual misbehavior, and others sins that coul…
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