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After a Black media empire fell, a photographer explored the extraordinary building it left behind

After a Black media empire fell, a photographer explored the extraordinary building it left behind
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Just four years after the Civil Rights era, Chicago welcomed its first downtown high rise designed by a Black architect for a Black-owned company. For four decades, the Johnson Publishing Company occupied an 11-story tower at 820 S. Michigan Avenue that was a monument to Bl...

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