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December 17, 2012

Robert L. Johnson Urges President Obama to Encourage U.S. Businesses to Adopt Version of the NFL Rooney Rule for Employment

Robert L. Johnson, chairman of The RLJ Companies and founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET) today calls on President Barack Obama to renew his commitment in addressing the employment gap between African Americans and White Americans, by encouraging U.S. corporations to adopt the RLJ Rule to address the overwhelming gap in unemployment.

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November 20, 2012

BET Founder Wants More Minority Entrepreneurs to Get a Shot

published by Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business

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November 20, 2012

RLJ Western Asset Management Liquidates Public Private Investment Partnership For Treasury

RLJ Western Asset Management, LP today announced that it has returned substantially all assets of the RLJ Western Asset Public/Private Master Fund (the “RLJ/WA PPIP”). The RLJ/WA PPIP was jointly owned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) and private investors. Treasury received $416.8 million of investment gains in addition to the return of…

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November 19, 2012

Robert L. Johnson, BET founder, tells success story

published by The Chronicle, an independent daily at Duke University

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