I remember Keyshia Cole being on the cover of Essence a few years back.

This trend of Essence not featuring young, black singers may very well be recent because I'm sure if we looked hard enough, we could find old Essence covers of Janet Jackson and Whitney Houston when they were in their 20's. I'm pretty sure that A-keys and L-Boogie have been on the cover as well.

The thing about the whole age demo aspect is that it's not like Rihanna hasn't been on magazine covers with readerships that are older than she is. The average Vogue reader is in her 30's.

As for all of you saying, "oh does it matter . . ." "she has two Vogue covers" blah, blah, blah . . . I'm trying to put this nicely . . .but um, Ebony and Essence are significant for reasons that you may not understand.

Too bad, Ebony is an iconic and legendary magazine.

Just shows how ignorant some people are. Just because you don't know a magazine doesn't mean it isn't relevant. The nerve.

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Plain ignorant to think otherwise.

I didn't know about Ebony magazine either lol.

Yeah well, this is ATRL, so that type of ignorance (not white mainstream = irrelevant) is almost expected from some commenters, but I asked the question because I honestly thought someone might know something that I didn't.

Now, why would a white woman cover Ebony or Essense? Like, does that make sense to you.