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• n  a very dark black
• n  hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in cabinetwork and for piano keys
• n  tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork
• s  of a very dark black

• For generations his descendants rebuffed enquiring scholars and collectors, claimed that the ebony chest had been destroyed.
• Joey Wallis Sarah Ehrler Amid an interior of beige and white, coolly accented by ebony tables and white onyx cutlery, French chef Laurent Gras gives seafood a new sense of .
• An Asian culinary trend heads west as ebony ingredients begin to show up on fashionable menus.

• coal black
• jet black
• pitch black
• sable
• soot black
• ebony tree
• Diospyros ebenum
• ebon

News & Articles

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• 4 students hurt when Pittsburgh school vans wreck
  Four students were being evaluated at area hospitals for minor injuries after one Pittsburgh Public Schools van rear-ended another Monday morning. District spokeswoman Ebony Pugh said the accident happened just before 8 a.m. Monday on California Avenue at Columbus Avenue in the California-Kirkbride section of the city. Two of the injured students were on a van taking them to Pittsburgh Langley ...
  June 11, 2013 - WPXI Pittsburgh
• Afternoon Shift: Chicago Transit Summit, summer TV and the travel industry
  A bicyclist, a motorist and a pedestrian gather for WBEZ's first Chicago summer transit summit to hash out rules for the roads. Ebony.com editor, Jamilah Lemieux, talks about their year-long series on violence in Chicago. Author Elizabeth Becker sheds some light on the travel industry. [ View the story "Afternoon Shift: Chicago Transit Summit, summer TV and the travel industry" on Storify ]
  June 10, 2013 - WBEZ 91.5 Chicago
• 2 students hurt when Pittsburgh school vans wreck
  PITTSBURGH (AP) - Two students were being evaluated at a hospital for minor injuries after one Pittsburgh Public Schools van rear-ended another. District spokeswoman Ebony Pugh says the accident happened just before 8 a.m. Monday. The district's schools break for the summer on Wednesday.
  June 10, 2013 - New Jersey Herald

Quotes

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• Richard M Daley in NBC5.com
  Mayor Richard M. Daley said in a release Monday evening that "Through the vision and leadership of Mr. Johnson, Ebony and Jet magazines helped corporate America realize the vast purchasing power of the African-American consumer."
• Donna Orender in SI.com
  I came here earlier in the season ...... and that was the night I knew Ebony was going to have a breakout year,Orender said. "What's so striking about Ebony is the one you don't get numbers for, and that's her tremendous heart and...
• Sheila Johnson in Huffington Post (blog)
  When we started BET, it was going to be the Ebony magazine on television,Johnson tells me. "We had public affairs programming. We had news...... I had a show called Teen Summit, we had a large variety of programming, but the problem is...