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GREAT MOMENTS IN BLACK BUSINESS – NO. 10: BLACK RECORD LABELS

In their heyday, black music recording and publishing businesses/black record labels were among the most imperious companies on the BE 100 lists. Dominant players largely in the 1970s, they included Motown, the Stax Organization, Sussex Records, and the Great Philadelphia Trading Co. Ltd.

BERRY GORDY

BERRY GORDY

BERRY GORDY  MOTOWN INDUSTRIES  EST. 1959  Music industry icon Gordy created America’s soundtrack with such hitmakers as Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, and The Jackson 5....

RICHELIEU DENNIS

RICHELIEU DENNIS  SUNDIAL BRANDS; ESSENCE VENTURES  EST. 1991 & 2018  In the early 1990s, Liberian immigrant Dennis and his partners at Sundial Brands hawked their culturally authentic organic skin and...

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