Black Enterprise, Volume 19, No. 12: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

An issue of Black Enterprise magazine, July 1989, Volume 19, No. 12. The front cover header in white type reads: [BLACK / ENTERPRISE / JULY 1989 $1.95] and in blue type: [Executive Health & Fitness Guide]. Underneath the header there is a color image of Spike Lee and Ossie Davis. White type on the left side of the cover reads: [LIGHTS! / CAMERA! / ACTION! / New Breed of / Filmmakers / Take On / Hollywood]. White type in the bottom right corner identifies the Lee and Davis and reads: [Spike Lee and Ossie Davis on the set of Lee’s new film, Do The Right Thing]. The interior pages, sixty-eight in total, are off-white paper with black type, and both black-and-white and color images and drawings. The contents of the magazine include economic articles, film articles, health articles, and advertisements. The back cover is an advertisement for Dewar's Whiskey. The advertisement features a black and white image of composer and flautist Henry Threadgill sitting at a table with sheet music, an instrument, bottle of "White Label" Dewar's Blended Scotch Whiskey. The whiskey bottle and glass are in color.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1989
• Published by: Earl G. Graves Publishing Co., Inc., American, founded 1969
• Subject of: Black Enterprise, American, founded 1970
• Type: magazines (periodicals)
• Medium: ink on paper with metal
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 10 13/16 × 8 1/8 × 1/8 in. (27.5 × 20.6 × 0.3 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W x D (Open): 10 13/16 × 16 1/4 × 1/8 in. (27.5 × 41.3 × 0.3 cm)
• Place made: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Black Press
• Topic: Business
• Topic: Film
• Topic: Mass media
• Object number: 2014.76.12.5
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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