Magazines that prominently featured the works of poets, visual artists, historians, sociologists, dramatists, and fiction writers were a principle mainstay of the original Harlem Renaissance. Those famous writers and thinkers of the movement whose names today for many are commonplace––i.e., poet Countee Cullen, sociologist E. Franklin Frazier, artist Aaron Douglas––first gained widespread exposure in magazines like The Crisis , Opportunity , The Messenger , and The Negro World . In addition to providing contributors with prestige and bankable prize monies, these early twentieth century magazines also took and recorded frequent measures of the state of black culture. Many contemporary magazines in 2005 retain elements of the classic Harlem Renaissance periodicals but few embody the tradition so fully in spirit and substance as AFRICAN VOICES Magazine . Founded in 1992, African Voices entered the new century as a premier publisher of works by both emerging and established cultural worker