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What Happened to Playboy’s First Black Cover Girl?

12 min readFeb 10, 2020

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An October 1971 Playboy cover featuring Darine Stern. She is nude and a white Playboy logo covers her body.
Archival Playboy Magazine material. Copyright 1971 by Playboy. Used with permission. All rights reserved.

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Morgan Jerkins
Morgan Jerkins

Written by Morgan Jerkins

Morgan Jerkins is the Senior Editor at ZORA and a New York Times bestselling author. Her debut novel, “Caul Baby,” will be published by Harper in April 2021.

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