There was a time when it was de rigueur for black American households to have a subscription to Ebony magazine. Its pages were one of the only places in media where black families could see their faces, lives and interests reflected back at them.

And then came “The Cosby Show,” the holy grail of media portrayals of African-American family life.

That’s what makes the November cover of Ebony, which features an early portrait of Bill Cosby’s TV family overlaid by shattered glass, so powerful and such a lightning rod for conversations within the community about Cosby’s legacy.

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