Our World with Black Enterprise

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Our World with Black Enterprise is a weekly television show which has been hosted by Paul Brunson, Edward Lansing Gordon III,{{cite news |last1=Williams |first1=Kam |title=Journalist Ed Gordon Making News |url=https://lasentinel.net/journalist-ed-gordon-making-news.html |access-date=1 June 2022 |newspaper=Los Angeles Sentinel |date=June 6, 2008}} and, during its first season, Marc Lamont Hill,{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/therootdc/post/a-gay-kappa-wedding-the-latest-challenge-to-black-americas-hyper-masculine-arenas/2012/10/17/5d1e0752-1866-11e2-a55c-39408fbe6a4b_blog.html|title=A gay Kappa wedding: The latest event challenging black America's hyper-masculine arenas|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=June 1, 2022}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.vibe.com/news/movies-tv/marc-lamont-hill-vh1-live-show-interview-437882/|title=Marc Lamont Hill Talks Donald Trump, Cop Killings, #BLM & Taking VH1 'Live!' With New TV Show|first=Keith|last=Murphy|website=Vibe.com|date=16 July 2016|access-date=1 June 2022}} which is produced by Black Enterprise The show was created by Earl G. Graves Sr.{{cite news |last1=Blum |first1=Mary |title=Meet Your (Former) Neighbor: Earl Graves Sr. personified Black Enterprise |newspaper=Scarsdale News|url=https://www.scarsdalenews.com/community/local_life/neighbors/meet-your-former-neighbor-earl-graves-sr-personified-black-enterprise/article_bf38ea3e-7a05-11ea-93c2-0f26e7e22061.html |access-date=1 June 2022 |date=April 8, 2020}}{{Cite web|url=https://aldianews.com/leadership/entrepreneurs/remembering-earl-graves|title=Black publishing pioneer, Earl Graves, dies at age 85|website=Aldianews.com|access-date=1 June 2022}} It airs on Saturday and Sunday across a range of local television stations and focuses on various issues of interest to the urban (i.e. Black) general and upwardly mobile community. The show premiered on September 30, 2006.{{cite news |title=Gordon Hosts New Series|newspaper=Detroit Free Press |date=September 27, 2006 |page=8C}} The show received negative criticism in Israel for comments, including those by Marc Lamont Hill, for supporting Palestinians viewed as terrorists by Israel.{{cite news |title=Marc Lamont Hill Apologizes in Op-ed for Use of Phrase 'Free Palestine From the River to the Sea' |url=https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2018-12-03/ty-article/marc-lamont-hill-in-op-ed-apologizes-for-use-of-phrase-free-palestine-from-the-rive/0000017f-f61e-d318-afff-f77fe1cf0000 |access-date=1 June 2022 |newspaper=Haaretz |date=December 3, 2018}}

The show has criticized superficial Black stereotypes, including Black entertainment programs such as Tyler Perry's sitcoms.{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2018/10/megyn-kelly-blackface-minstrelsy-history-1202015208/|title=Megyn Kelly's Firing Won't Change America's Shameful History of Blackface on Film and TV — Analysis|first1=Ambay|last1=Obenson|website=Indiewire.com|date=25 October 2018|access-date=1 June 2022}}