Blacknews.com posted an interview their Kam Williams did with Stedman Graham. In the article the 59 year-old shed light on his past and present accomplishments. For many, Graham is known as partner of Oprah Winfrey, the media mogul he was once engaged to in Nov. 1999. The couple decided to have a ”spiritual union.”
On his non-profit Athletes Against Drugs: “The focus of the organization, which is really known now as AAD Education, Health and Sports is the positive, not the negative. Being in this business for 25 years has taught us that it’s not about the drugs but about providing positive choices, keeping yourself active and keeping yourself busy with activities, the proper curriculum, and special events like taking kids to games. That’s how you keep our youth off drugs.” On where he imagines himself in ten years: ” I’d like to be able to travel around the world working with organizations and institutions to help educate as many people as possible about how to develop an identity for themselves, about how to find out who they are. And I’d like to teach them information making it relevant to their own development. ”
On how President Obama has handled the BP oil disaster: “I think Obama has done a great job, based on what he was handed at the start of his administration. I also believe that he needs the support of the whole country. There are so many people trying to tear him down. America needs to come together as a country to figure out how we can support him as the President, including the BP disaster.”
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The Whitesboro, NJ, native is the Chairman and CEO of S. Graham & Associates; a management and marketing consulting firm specializing in the corporate and educational fields; the author of ten books, two of which became NY Times bestsellers; has taught at several colleges; and is is a co founder of the international public relations consulting firm The Graham Williams Group.
