Most Powerful Black Celebrities
There are 1,125 billionaires in the world according to Forbes magazine with an estimated combined net worth of $4.4 trillion, up $900 billion from last year. Still the current number of black billiona[more]
Robert Johnson's RLJ Development LLC today announced the closing of the sale of 22 full and select service hotels to Inland American Lodging Corporation.[more]
One billion dollars is no longer enough to land you on the Forbes 400. The price of admission to this, the 25th anniversary edition of the Forbes 400, is $1.3 billion, up $300 million from last year.[more]
Our Stories Films and The Ford Motor Co. have formed an exclusive new marketing alliance that includes product placement, script integration, sponsorships, and promotions of featured film titles.[more]
Robert L. Johnson, chairman of the RLJ Companies and founder of Black Entertainment Television, departed Liberia today having led a 25 person delegation of prominent African Americans. The four-day bu[more]
Robert Johnson, founder of the cable television station BET, will be the host of the 2007 Black Enterprise Entrepreneurs Conference & Expo from May 9-12 at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin resor[more]
Forbes magazine has released it's annual ranking of the world's richest people. The Forbes world's billionaires list consist of 946 billionaires, whose combined net worth climbed by $900 billion to $3[more]
Robert L. Johnson, majority owner of the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats, announced today the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the RLJ Companies (RLJ), the Overseas Private Investment Corporat[more]
Black Enterprise today unveils its 2007 list of the Top 50 Power Brokers in Hollywood. In the March cover feature, BE spotlights the growing number of African Americans who have achieved record influe[more]
Robert Johnson controlled RLJ Development, LLC affiliate RLJ Lodging Fund II, has acquired the New York LaGuardia Airport Marriott from LaSalle Hotel Properties (NYSE: LHO) for $69.0 million.[more]
