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A Jewish journalist who helped run and found black newspapers and magazines in the 1940s and 1950s died at the age of 86 at his home in Atlantis, Fla. In 1945, Ben Burns helped found Ebony magazine.

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A Jewish journalist who helped run and found black newspapers and magazines in the 1940s and 1950s died at the age of 86 at his home in Atlantis, Fla. In 1945, Ben Burns helped found Ebony magazine.

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