One of the many proud successes of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Founder of Black Enterprises Magazine; Earl Graves served as an administrative assistant to Senator Robert F. Kennedy. In 1968, Graves started Earl G. Graves, Ltd. Under that holding company, he began the Earl G. Graves Associates management consulting firm. In 1970, the company's Earl G. Graves Publishing Company division began publishing Black Enterprise magazine. Black Enterprise states as its goal to provide inspiration to African Americans in the business sector. The magazine has 500,000 paid subscribers, over 3 million readers and has grossed $53 million in sales. Graves is a also director of Aetna, AMR Corporation, Daimler AG, Federated Department Stores and Rohm and Haas, and is a volunteer on the boards of TransAfrica Inc. and theAmerican Museum of Natural History and Hayden Planetarium in New York City. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Howard University. Graves received the Silver Buffalo Award from the Boy Scouts of America in 1988, and served as the national commissioner from 1990 to 1995. He received the NAACP's Spingarn Medal in 1999. Graves donated $1 million to Morgan State’s school of business and management. His alma mater honored him by changing the name of the school of business to the Earl G. Graves School of Business and Management. Earl Graves is truly a face of Brooklyn.