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Earl G. Graves Sr.

CTL-E-0672 · Person · 1935-2020

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Founder and publisher of Black Enterprise (1970); champion of Black business who built a single magazine into a multimedia company; died 2020.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MEDIA-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MEDIA-001:MED-037; source research type(s): Person.

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Record CTL-E-0672 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: PROVISIONAL · 3 sources (1 primary) · CTL research: MEDIA-001.
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