Supermodel Beverly Johnson is speaking out on the racism she has suffered in the fashion industry, and her life, in a frank new essay.Beverly, 67, has written a wide-ranging piece about race in PEOPLE Magazine revealing that she first experienced racism when she was '12 or 13' as white neighborhood kids threw bottles and yelled the N-word at her when she would ride her bike.(Beverly grew up in Buffalo, New York.)The racism continued into her pioneering modelling career - where she became the first Black woman to appear on the cover of Vogue Magazine in 1974 - and says that there is still much more change to be addressed in the fashion world today.
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