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A Random Walk Down Wall Street (With Protesters)

A Random Walk Down Wall Street (With Protesters)

On my lunch hour last Friday, I went down to lower Manhattan’s financial district–the nerve center of global finance–to witness a few hundred protesters yelling at the tops of their...

The Measure of Greatness

The Measure of Greatness

The life story of Dr. Dorothy Height, who died on Monday, often reads like a fairytale. That sometimes happens when you live so long and age so gracefully. Folks forget how much anxiety and disappointment and heartbreak you endured, especially when, at 98, you’re still wearing gorgeous hats and smiling—even as you strike your latest blow against oppression.

Black Enterprise’s Extraordinary Journey

Black Enterprise’s Extraordinary Journey

Black enterprise was just a modest monthly magazine when I founded it 40 years ago—just me; a few brave forward-thinking advertisers like Pepsi, ExxonMobil, and General Motors; and a small but spirited and talented staff. Oh, and one other person who did just about everything there is to do to put out a magazine back then—a combination writer, editor, proofreader, layout designer, sales director, office manager, and vice president in charge of shutting down the publisher’s bad ideas—my wife of 50 years, Barbara Graves.

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