Growing up in Louisville, Ky., Eden Bridgeman Sklenar leafed through issues of Ebony and Jet at the beauty salon, where she would go with her mother every week to get her hair styled in tight curls.It was the ’90s, when Whitney Houston, Nelson Mandela, Colin Powell, Michael Jordan, Tupac Shakur and Oprah Winfrey made the covers of the two leading chroniclers of Black life and culture.“If you were ever wanting to know what was happening with African American culture, all you had to do was pick up an Ebony or Jet and flip through the pages,” Ms. Sklenar …
