Players Pins and Buttons
Description: PLAYERS was an American monthly men's magazine often nicknamed "the black Playboy" for its attempt at providing the African-American public with racy content alongside elegant reading. It straddled the line between the mainstream aspirations of Playboy and the braggadocio of urban street culture, and made no effort to hide its large inmate readership, featuring a letter from prison in virtually every reader's mail column. It featured articles from such luminaries as Amiri Baraka, Alex Haley, Julian Bond, Huey Newton, Stanley Crouch, Chester Himes, Donald Goines and Iceberg Slim, and cover models like Dorothy Dandridge, Pam Grier, Josephine Baker and Lynn Whitfield. It was also progressive enough to feature a trans model Ajita Wilson.
