Author : Earl G. Graves, Sr.

No one asked if America was ready to see a black man in Major League Baseball. It wasn’t–until the right man, Jackie Robinson, accepted the...

Today, we live in a society happy to watch black people denigrate themselves, a culture that sees such self-denigration as a form of entertainment-and a...

A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just. — Proverbs 13:22...

Not so long ago, black parents drilled into their children the importance of pursuing excellence, doing one’s best, as a key weapon in overcoming economic...

It all started nearly four decades ago with an idea: Without economic empowerment, the hard-fought political and social gains of the civil rights movement would...

There is a plaque in my office that contains a quote by the great John B. Russwurm, editor of Freedom’s Journal, the first African American-owned...

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. These most basic and priceless birthrights of humanity, affirmed by no less hallowed a document than the U.S....

When we launched the BLACK ENTERPRISE Black Wealth Initiative with our January 2000 issue, we set a simple yet important goal: to close the “black...

As a potential homeowner, Helen Flowers seemed to have everything against her. Married at 16, she eventually became a divorced single mother on welfare. A...