| Summary: | Media executive Alfred Adam Edmond Jr. was born on March 8, 1960 in Long Branch, New Jersey to parents Alfred and Virginia Edmond. He graduated from Rutgers University in 1983 with his B.A. degree in studio art with a minor in economics. Having served as editor of a campus newspaper, Edmond worked at black-owned newspapers in New York - first, in 1983, as managing editor of Big Red News, in Brooklyn, and then as associate editor at the New York Daily Challenge, in 1985. In 1987, he joined publisher Earl Graves at Black Enterprise magazine. Appointed editor-in-chief in 2000, he led the magazine's Black Wealth Initiative, an effort to focus African Americans on the task of wealth building. Taking a senior role in the development of the magazine's website, Black Enterprise.com, Emond became its editor-in-chief in 2008 and assumed the role of multimedia editor-at-large in 2010.
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