The philanthropist, sports franchise executive and co-founder of Black Entertainment Television Sheila Johnson is writing a memoir. BET sheilajohnson kprc2 click2houston
FILE - Philanthropist, sports franchise executive and co-founder of Black Entertainment Television Sheila Johnson appears the 2013 Women's Media Awards in New York on Oct. 8, 2013. Johnson's upcoming memoir. Walk Through Fire will document her rise from a middle class family in Illinois to becoming a pioneering Black woman billionaire, and how she endured her troubled marriage to fellow BET founder Robert L. Johnson. The book is scheduled for release in September.
In 1980, Johnson and her former husband started BET, the groundbreaking cable channel sold 20 years later to Viacom. Among numerous other achievements, she has had partial ownership of three sports teams — the NHL's Washington Capitals, the NBA's Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association and the WNBA's Washington Mystics — and is a global ambassador for the humanitarian agency CARE.
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