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Regina Jones Talks Launching Groundbreaking 1960s Black Music Publication ‘SOUL’
Pioneering magazine editor Regina Jones talks launching the groundbreaking 1960s Black music publication SOUL, as well as a new documentary on her.
That period saw the publication expand its reach and impact from local to nationwide and then international as it covered icons-in-the-making such as Quincy Jones, Richard Pryor, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Diana Ross, Gladys Knight and Stevie Wonder. At that point she had quit her LAPD job and was wearing several hats: handling the phone as the receptionist, hustling advertising and negotiating with distributors before adding editor-in-chief stripes after husband Ken clinched the television anchor gig. Among the names Jones proudly reels off are noted photographers Bruce Talamon and Howard Bingham, ex- SOUL editor/Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Leonard Pitts and journalists/writers Steve Ivory, Mike Terry and Connie Johnson.
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