W.Leonard Evans Jr. began the nation’s first Black radio network when the National Negro Network broadcasted on 40 stations on January 20,1954.
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Mr. Evans formed Tuesday Publications and began putting out Tuesday magazine, which featured articles on positive contributions by blacks, in the 1960s. He added Tuesday At Home magazine in the early 1970s. The magazines were inserted into the Sunday editions of 23 newspapers, including the Chicago Sun-Times and later, the Chicago Tribune. The magazines reached more than 4 million subscribers, a 1973 Tribune article reported. The magazines got their name from the day that magazines for blacks had traditionally been printed in the North so they could get to an audience in the South by the end of the week.
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