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From VIBE to The TRiiBE: Danyel Smith on the legacy of Quincy Jones
By Tiffany Walden
Published on April 24, 2026
TRiiBE Editor-in-Chief Tiffany Walden meeting former VIBE magazine Editor-in-Chief Danyel Smith for the first time at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Conference in New Orleans in 2017. The TRiiBE launched a few months before this photograph. Photo by Morgan Elise Johnson.
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