Failure is a word that I simply don't accept.

In 1995 Johnson received the Communication Award on the occasion of Ebony magazine's 50th anniversary. Legacy
Johnson Publishing Company also has a book division and employs more than 2600 people with sales of over $388 million. Negro Digest
Once the idea of The Negro Digest occurred to him it began to seem like a "black gold mine" Johnson stated in his autobiography Succeeding against the Odds.

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