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Earl G. Graves Sr.

1935 – 2020

Brooklyn, New York and Washington, D.C., United States

Brooklyn-born publisher who worked on Senator Robert F. Kennedy's staff, launched Black Enterprise magazine in 1970, and owned Pepsi-Cola's Washington, D.C. bottler from 1990 until selling it in 1998.

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Holmes Hall at Morgan State University, Baltimore, Graves's alma mater and home of the business school named for him
Credit: Eli Pousson / Baltimore Heritage, via Flickr. License: CC0.

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  1. BlackPast, "Earl G. Graves Sr. (1935-2020)" (Reference)
  2. Associated Press, "Earl Graves Sr., founder of Black Enterprise magazine, dies" (via WJLA, 7 April 2020) (Reference)
  3. KUT Radio (NPR), In Black America, "Remembering Earl G. Graves, Sr., Founder and Publisher of Black Enterprise Magazine" (2025) (Reference)

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