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Robert Johnson's BET sale was a business deal
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Philadelphia Tribune, The
12-01-2000
Robert Johnson's BET sale was a business deal
If those of us who write and are quoted for the African American public
want to be taken seriously, and aspire for Black people to think and do
better, we have to begin doing better ourselves. This thought came to me
after reading the many responses to BET owner Robert Johnson's sale of his
company to Viacom, the white-owned media giant.
Immediately I was...
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