Rolling Stone is arguably the world’s most iconic pop culture and music magazine. But the mag has a reputation for catering mostly to the tastes of white Baby Boomers–and the criticism against the mag for that bias is completely justified. But there have been numerous iconic artists to grace the cover of the famous mag–and not all of them are of the Woodstock demographic.
Here are twenty of the coolest black superstars to land on the cover of Rolling Stone over the years…