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America's first black billionaire, Robert Johnson, is pushing hard for the government to pay $14 trillion in reparations -- and he wants his check just like everyone else.
Black Entertainment Television founder Robert Johnson, doubts a reparations check will ever come, but is still pushing his $14 billion reparations proposal ...
BET FOUNDER ROBERT JOHNSON MOCKS CROWDS PULLING DOWN STATUES, CALLS THEM 'BORDERLINE ANARCHISTS' "It is very possible a black vote at 12 percent going one way toward Donald Trump could make Donald ...
Robert Johnson might the be the most effective musician in history. He died at 27 and only had 29 known recordings (16 of them produced in San Antonio); his music wasn’t widely played during his ...
As author Elijah Wald (Escaping The Delta: Robert Johnson And The Invention Of The Blues (Amistad, 2004)) points out in this introduction the the book: "For more than 80 years, the only way to ...
BET founder Robert Johnson slammed those who topple Confederate and other statues across the US as “borderline anarchists” — and argued the act means “absolutely means nothing” to black ...
And in Robert Mugge's "Notes From The Road: A Filmmaker's Journey Through American Music," Mugge reminisces about directing more than 25 music documentaries, his subjects including Robert Johnson ...
As Mississippi gets set to celebrate Robert Johnson's 100th birthday, it's plain to see the musician still casts a long shadow over the Delta blues — deal with the devil or no.
Robert Johnson could have easily chosen to stay home after high school. He was surrounded by family and friends in his hometown of Seaside, Calif., and in line to take over his family’s heating ...
Robert Johnson was Business Insider's senior correspondent and the originating editor of Business Insider's military-and-defense section. A former US Army noncommissioned officer, Johnson enlisted ...
Robert Johnson lifted the unlabeled glass bottle to his lips, but Rice Miller knocked the drink out of his partner’s hand. “Don’t ever take a drink if you don’t know where it comes from ...