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Who’s Who in Black Corporate America?
http://bmia.wordpress.com/2014/06/22/whos-who-in-black-corporate-america/
By William Reed
According to Forbes 2014 ranking of the world’s billionaires, Nigerian business magnate Aliko Dangote with a net worth of $25 billion is the world’s richest Black person. But, Robert Louis “Bob” Johnson is an American worthy of note. Known best for launching Black Entertainment Television (BET) in 1980, Johnson was America’s first Black billionaire. After selling BET to Viacom for $3 billion, the 67-year-old Johnson has etched out role model status in hotels (Marriott), auto dealerships and ownership of the Charlotte Bobcats.
Born in Hickory, Mississippi, Bob Johnson founded BET with his wife, Sheila. After they sold BET in 2001 and divorced in 2002, both qualified billionaires. Since BET, Johnson has started the RLJ Companies, invested in an NBA team, a film company, and political causes and campaigns.
Bob Johnson spent the majority of his childhood in Freeport, Illinois and graduated from Freeport High School in 1964. He studied history at the University of Illinois and later earned a master’s degree in international affairs from Princeton University. After graduating Princeton, Johnson served as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s public affairs director. He also worked for the National Urban League and as a press secretary for Congressman Walter E. Fauntroy. Later Johnson became vice president of government relations at the National Cable and Television Association. In 1980, Johnson launched Black Entertainment Television. In 1984, he was listed in Who’s Who in Black Corporate America in 1984 and in 2007, USA Today named him one of the 25 most influential business leaders of the past quarter century.
The RLJ Companies provides strategic investments in a portfolio of companies in hotel real estate investment; private equity; financial services; asset management; automobile dealerships; sports and entertainment; and video lottery terminal (VLT) gaming. The core assets include:
• RLJ Lodging Trust has a total of 147 properties, comprised of 145 hotels with approximately 22,500 rooms located in 22 states and the District of Columbia.
• RLJ Equity Partners, LLC was founded with The Carlyle Group and specializes in middle-market leveraged buy-outs, recapitalizations, and growth equity. RLJ Equity Partners invests in companies with enterprise values between $50M and $250M within aerospace/defense; automotive/transportation; business services; consumer/retail; general industrial and media sectors.
• RLJ Credit Opportunity Fund provides capital solutions to facilitate buyouts, recapitalizations, refinancing, and growth financings. RLJ Credit principles partner with private equity firms, investment banks, and operating executives to deliver financial and strategic resources.
• RLJ Entertainment, Inc. is a owner, developer, licensee and distributor of entertainment content and programming with over 5,300 exclusive titles.
• RLJ Financial, LLC provides lending products to consumers in need of short term and emergency borrowing.
• Retirement Clearinghouse (RCH) specializes in employee retirement transition (job changer) services.
• RLJ Fixed Income, LLC specializes in income investment opportunities within the government, corporate, federal agency, and municipal bond markets.
• RLJ-McLarty-Landers Automotive Holdings, LLC consists of 35 automotive franchises and three Harley-Davidson motorcycle dealerships in eight states. RLJ-McLarty-Landers is the largest African American owned automotive franchise in the country.
• Bobcats Sports & Entertainment is comprised of the franchise and arena operations, of a professional basketball team of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Bobcats debuted in 2004 and is part of the Southeast Division of the NBA’s Eastern Conference and play home games at Charlotte’s Time Warner Cable Arena. In 2010, Johnson sold majority ownership to Michael Jordan and MJ Basketball Holdings, LLC, but Johnson still serves as the Bobcats’ governor to the NBA.
• Caribbean CAGE, LLC is a route-installed gaming company headquartered in Puerto Rico that focuses on the installation, operation and management of video lottery terminals (VLTs), linked gaming systems and game content throughout the Caribbean and Latin America.
• Our Stories Films, LLC is a production studio that produces theatrical motion pictures.
• The RLJ Kendeja Resort & Villas is a 78-room villa style hotel located on 13-acres of ocean front property overlooking the Atlantic Ocean outside of Monrovia, Liberia. The property opened in 2009.The four-star luxury resort is the first of its kind in Liberia and one of the first in West Africa.
William Reed is publisher of “Who’s Who in Black Corporate America” and available for projects via the BaileyGroup.org.
« Real Black Men Fight Poverty
We Remember Music Legend Bobby Womack »
Who’s Who in Black Corporate America?
http://bmia.wordpress.com/2014/06/22/whos-who-in-black-corporate-america/
By William Reed
According to Forbes 2014 ranking of the world’s billionaires, Nigerian business magnate Aliko Dangote with a net worth of $25 billion is the world’s richest Black person. But, Robert Louis “Bob” Johnson is an American worthy of note. Known best for launching Black Entertainment Television (BET) in 1980, Johnson was America’s first Black billionaire. After selling BET to Viacom for $3 billion, the 67-year-old Johnson has etched out role model status in hotels (Marriott), auto dealerships and ownership of the Charlotte Bobcats.
Born in Hickory, Mississippi, Bob Johnson founded BET with his wife, Sheila. After they sold BET in 2001 and divorced in 2002, both qualified billionaires. Since BET, Johnson has started the RLJ Companies, invested in an NBA team, a film company, and political causes and campaigns.
Bob Johnson spent the majority of his childhood in Freeport, Illinois and graduated from Freeport High School in 1964. He studied history at the University of Illinois and later earned a master’s degree in international affairs from Princeton University. After graduating Princeton, Johnson served as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s public affairs director. He also worked for the National Urban League and as a press secretary for Congressman Walter E. Fauntroy. Later Johnson became vice president of government relations at the National Cable and Television Association. In 1980, Johnson launched Black Entertainment Television. In 1984, he was listed in Who’s Who in Black Corporate America in 1984 and in 2007, USA Today named him one of the 25 most influential business leaders of the past quarter century.
The RLJ Companies provides strategic investments in a portfolio of companies in hotel real estate investment; private equity; financial services; asset management; automobile dealerships; sports and entertainment; and video lottery terminal (VLT) gaming. The core assets include:
• RLJ Lodging Trust has a total of 147 properties, comprised of 145 hotels with approximately 22,500 rooms located in 22 states and the District of Columbia.
• RLJ Equity Partners, LLC was founded with The Carlyle Group and specializes in middle-market leveraged buy-outs, recapitalizations, and growth equity. RLJ Equity Partners invests in companies with enterprise values between $50M and $250M within aerospace/defense; automotive/transportation; business services; consumer/retail; general industrial and media sectors.
• RLJ Credit Opportunity Fund provides capital solutions to facilitate buyouts, recapitalizations, refinancing, and growth financings. RLJ Credit principles partner with private equity firms, investment banks, and operating executives to deliver financial and strategic resources.
• RLJ Entertainment, Inc. is a owner, developer, licensee and distributor of entertainment content and programming with over 5,300 exclusive titles.
• RLJ Financial, LLC provides lending products to consumers in need of short term and emergency borrowing.
• Retirement Clearinghouse (RCH) specializes in employee retirement transition (job changer) services.
• RLJ Fixed Income, LLC specializes in income investment opportunities within the government, corporate, federal agency, and municipal bond markets.
• RLJ-McLarty-Landers Automotive Holdings, LLC consists of 35 automotive franchises and three Harley-Davidson motorcycle dealerships in eight states. RLJ-McLarty-Landers is the largest African American owned automotive franchise in the country.
• Bobcats Sports & Entertainment is comprised of the franchise and arena operations, of a professional basketball team of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Bobcats debuted in 2004 and is part of the Southeast Division of the NBA’s Eastern Conference and play home games at Charlotte’s Time Warner Cable Arena. In 2010, Johnson sold majority ownership to Michael Jordan and MJ Basketball Holdings, LLC, but Johnson still serves as the Bobcats’ governor to the NBA.
• Caribbean CAGE, LLC is a route-installed gaming company headquartered in Puerto Rico that focuses on the installation, operation and management of video lottery terminals (VLTs), linked gaming systems and game content throughout the Caribbean and Latin America.
• Our Stories Films, LLC is a production studio that produces theatrical motion pictures.
• The RLJ Kendeja Resort & Villas is a 78-room villa style hotel located on 13-acres of ocean front property overlooking the Atlantic Ocean outside of Monrovia, Liberia. The property opened in 2009.The four-star luxury resort is the first of its kind in Liberia and one of the first in West Africa.
William Reed is publisher of “Who’s Who in Black Corporate America” and available for projects via the BaileyGroup.org.Jone2three45
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The_King_of_Everything
Yeah.
Y'all make the same thread every year cry and whine about how we need to do better then go back to listening to the same shyt y'all complain about.
Shut the fukk up.
Shut the fukk up.
Piff Perkins
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The thing that struck me was the complete lack of variety in the music, and the total lack of quality compared to other awards shows. When you're editing every other word it becomes impossible to be a good TV performance (Wayne). Likewise you had Chris Brown and Usher lip syncing, Aiko showing she couldn't sing, etc.
Yall know why Ritchie didn't perform? Because no one watching knew who he was. If he got an award at the Grammys or AMAs he'd get to perform because there would be plenty of white people and older black people watching who love his music. Not black 16-25 year olds who think music 3 years old are "throwback tracks."
Don't be mad at Iggy or Thicke for, they aren't the problem. The problem is a generation that has been raised to not appreciate music, and instead treat it like fast food. And BET has played a major role in this. This is a generation that literally views non rap/rap r&b as "white music." Usher released an old school, great sounding r&b record that can't get major play on urban radio right now because it doesn't feature a rapper, a Mustard beat, or any flash.
Yall know why Ritchie didn't perform? Because no one watching knew who he was. If he got an award at the Grammys or AMAs he'd get to perform because there would be plenty of white people and older black people watching who love his music. Not black 16-25 year olds who think music 3 years old are "throwback tracks."
Don't be mad at Iggy or Thicke for, they aren't the problem. The problem is a generation that has been raised to not appreciate music, and instead treat it like fast food. And BET has played a major role in this. This is a generation that literally views non rap/rap r&b as "white music." Usher released an old school, great sounding r&b record that can't get major play on urban radio right now because it doesn't feature a rapper, a Mustard beat, or any flash.
Get all the way the fukk outta here, as much as you Bytch ass clowns like to complain, the BET awards has been number one from an entertainment and production standpoint the last several years. Have you fukkers watched the boring nut ass Grammys? Oh you meant the billboard awards was better right? Say what you want about today's music etc, which ultimately dictates ur feelings on everything music related, but the same comments I see in every show thread, 'wow this was better than my c00n ass thought ," find artists you like and support them, the mainstream has always been a roller coaster for highs lows and trends in the music game.. Ole I ain't watched bet in 15 years ass Nyggas
i was waiting for this thread.
thanks breh
thanks breh
Hacksaw Jim Thuggin
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nikkas love to complain...
aint bought a cd in years then wanna claim the music is dead....
why should any artist/label cater to people that dont spend money with them?
its called the music business for a reason....
aint bought a cd in years then wanna claim the music is dead....
why should any artist/label cater to people that dont spend money with them?
its called the music business for a reason....
The_King_of_Everything
Yeah.
Complain about music that you talk about everyday brehs
Grand Champ
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Same fukking thread rehashed as always. White people arent "taking" over Black music. Iggy has one single popping. Did yall even look at the charts, she sold like 200k so far. She'll cruise to gold,maybe plat (depending on her next single and thats about it). She wont even be around long. Nobody knows who the fukk riff raff and g-eazy are outside of the internet. Yall know I always ride for my people but this thread is uncalled for. Timberlake and Em are gonna sell anyway. So stop the overreacting. John Legend just went gold with no type of label push. Urban contemporary radio (like Wbls) always plays his songs. If it weren't for the those type of stations dude would of bricked. Joe, Jaheim, Tamar and plenty of other R&B artists put out good music last year and did respectable numbers. Yall know how artists from any genre went plat in 2013 or 2014? Not many but yall just assume shyt without checking the facts. There is Soul music out there but the labels aint putting money behind. You gotta watch Vh1 Soul or Centric to see it.
The_King_of_Everything
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Just need @CrimsonTider to comment
Rakim Allah
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When people expect quality entertainment from establishments such as Viacom
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Nigerianwonder
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To be honest breh.. i think some of the music and artist of today could be really good but its just too vulgar for no reason. It takes away from it and kinda makes the music more disposable. When you think of timeless hits and classic rnb songs your whole fam could jam to em at a bbq or somethin. who really wants to put on some of todays ratchet music around fam like that? When chris brown is 50 is he really gonnabe performing these hoes aint loyal they way troop and some of those 90s groups came out and performed their hits?
Im thankful i grew up when groups and artist like boys 2 men, joe, new edition dominated radio and television. And its not just music we have seen a decline in quality.. 90s black televison and movies were better than anything we have now too. So Its kinda across the board.
Im thankful i grew up when groups and artist like boys 2 men, joe, new edition dominated radio and television. And its not just music we have seen a decline in quality.. 90s black televison and movies were better than anything we have now too. So Its kinda across the board.