An Evening With Earl Graves

Oct 28 2006

Interviewed by Julian Bond
Saturday, October 28, 2006
Goodman Theatre
170 North Dearborn Street
Chicago, Illinois 60601

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Oct 28 2006

Description

This hour-long, one-on-one interview program provided a historical look into the life of legendary publisher and business icon, Earl Graves, Sr., founder of Black Enterprise magazine. Taped in Chicago, Illinois in front of a live audience, Earl Graves was interviewed by civil rights activist and politician Julian Bond. An Evening With Earl Graves was the twelfth program in The HistoryMakers' An Evening With...series.

Through the use of film footage and images, An Evening With Earl Graves provided a rare look into the wonderful life and legacy of this publishing giant.

Earl Graves, Sr.

Publisher and business leader Earl Graves has done more to change the landscape of the African American business community than anyone in the United States. In the late 1960s, when African Americans were starting to enter Corporate America, Graves decided to start a newsletter, which quickly grew into Black Enterprise magazine. Since launching the business publication in 1970, Graves has helped to foster the growth of a vibrant African American business community. Today, Black Enterprise is a multimedia company with properties in television, radio, events, digital media and the Web. In 1999, Graves was awarded the 84th NAACP Spingarn Medal, the highest achievement award for African Americans. Also, Graves was immortalized in wax when ExxonMobil commissioned a likeness of him to be exhibited in the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. In August 2006, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Black Journalists for his contributions to the field of journalism and the publishing industry.

Julian Bond

Activist and politician Julian Bond was born on January 14, 1940, in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1960, Bond was one of several hundred students who helped form the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In 1965, he was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives but was barred from taking his seat until December 1966 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in his favor. He went on to serve four terms as a state representative and six terms in the Georgia State Senate. Bond hosted America’s Black Forum for many years. He was a distinguished scholar in residence at American University and a faculty member at the University of Virginia.

Bond passed away in 2015.

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