Heading the wealthiest black business in the United States and generally considered the most powerful black businessman in the nation, John H. Johnson is an entrepreneur. His family-owned business empire currently includes Ebony, Jet, and EM: Ebony Man magazines; a book-publishing company specializing in black culture and history; WJPC-AM, Chicago (acquired in 1972 as WGRT, Chicago's first and only black-owned radio station), WLNR-FM, Lansing, Illinois (acquired in 1985), and WLOU-AM, Louisville, Kentucky (acquired in 1982); the Ebony/Jet Showcase television series (premiered in 1983); Fashion Fair Cosmetics, sold in more than fifteen hundred U.S. department stores and abroad; Supreme Beauty Products for the hair (Duke for men, Raveen for women); and Ebony Fashion Fair, the world's largest touring fashion show with a mail-order fashion catalogue, begun in 1959. His cosmetics line began when he discovered that makeup in shades suitable for Fashion Fair models did not exist, and he could not interest...