People don’t know that this disease is still around.”. “He’s wonderful,” Johnson says. “Don’t even get me started,” says the 60-year-old Johnson, who has since divorced and remarried (charmingly enough, to the Virginia circuit court judge who presided over her divorce). So today she must be extremely proud of her baby, right? He is the co-founder of BET, which was acquired by Viacom in 2001.

The film—financed largely by Johnson and directed by Susan Koch (who also directed Kicking It, a documentary about homeless soccer players, one of Johnson’s previous Tribeca entries)—starts with the shocking revelation that in the nation’s capital, at a time when most of us have been led to believe that AIDS has been contained, fully 3 percent of the population is HIV-positive.

“I’m very nervous about the anger, the hostility, the racial comments. “It is pandemic,” she tells me. The owner of several hotels and a PGA golf course, she is building a luxury spa and convention center on a 347-acre tract in horse country in Middleburg, Virginia, where she also has a farm and indulges her love of all things equestrian. Sheila Crump Johnson is an American businesswoman, co-founder of BET, CEO of Salamander Hotels and Resorts, and the first African-American woman to attain a net worth of at least one billion dollars.

The BET co-founder had resources and a track record, but getting a loan for her new hotel was a challenge BET co-founder Sheila Johnson says playing sports … They met four decades ago in a Washington production of Ceremonies in Dark Old Men. People don’t know that this disease is still around.”, Johnson, a philanthropist who has traveled the world as global ambassador for the humanitarian organization CARE, says she was gripped by HIV as a subject “because it is disproportionately affecting women. We had news… I had a show called Teen Summit, we had a large variety of programming, but the problem is that then the video revolution started up… And then something started happening, and I didn’t like it at all. Concert violinist. Johnson—who was at the Tribeca Film Festival this week for the premiere of The Other City, a searing, but ultimately hopeful documentary she produced about the AIDS epidemic in Washington, D.C.—says BET is making matters worse, and potentially contributing to the spread of AIDS, by promoting promiscuous, unprotected sex in raunchy late-night rap videos. Because with all the studies that are out there, this is contributing to an atmosphere of free sex, ‘I don’t have to protect myself anymore.’”. Johnson is team president, managing partner, and governor of the WNBA's Washington Mystics, a position she earned before the 2005 season. “I feel like I was thrown under the bus on that one… The lesson that I’ve learned in all of this is I will never get involved in politics again.”, Although she was wildly enthusiastic about helping elect the first African-American president, Johnson is measured in her assessment of Obama’s performance thus far. And now, pioneering her way through the hospitality industry. “I don’t watch it. Johnson is the former majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats. There are the problems of gender-based violence, and women giving birth to babies and losing their children at a rapid rate because they have AIDS. “I just really wish—and not just BET but a lot of television programming—that they would stop lowering the bar so far just so they can get eyeballs to the screen,” she says. A major Democratic Party donor (who supported her good friend Barack Obama over her good friend Hillary Clinton in the presidential contest), she took a walk on the wild side last year and backed Bob McDonnell, the Republican nominee for governor of Virginia, because of his business-friendly emphasis on job-creation. And I remember during those days we would sit up and watch these videos and decide which ones were going on and which ones were not. Sheila Johnson, owner of the Washington Mystics and the Salamander resort in Middleburg, ... Johnson, 71, co-founded the BET cable channel with her then-husband, Robert Johnson. Sheila Johnson is using her riches from launching BET to raise awareness of the capital’s AIDS crisis with a new documentary. She is also an accomplished violinist. Her candidate won, but otherwise things didn’t turn out so well. When Viacom bought them out in 2000, Sheila and Bob pocketed $1.3 billion—making them, pre-Oprah, the nation’s first African-American billionaires. [Hello, Madonna and Angelina Jolie!] It wasn’t always that way. On May 24, 2005, Washington Sports and Entertainment Chairman, Ab…
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. I didn’t like the way women were being portrayed in these videos.”, Johnson says she no longer has any connection with BET.

Sheila Johnson is using her riches from launching BET to raise awareness of the capital’s AIDS crisis with a new documentary. The sexy thing to do is to be able to travel afar and hold babies in our arms. Sheila Johnson, 66, a former BET board member, vice president and host of the network’s talk show Teen Summit for 11 years, now criticizes what BET has become. The good news is that she is happily married to Chief Judge William T. Newman of Virginia’s Arlington County Circuit Court, who asked her out on a date after finalizing her divorce decree. Co-founder of BET. Tape: 2 Story: 8 - Sheila C. Johnson recalls marrying BET founder Robert L. Johnson; Tape: 2 Story: 9 - Sheila C. Johnson recalls the early years of her marriage; Tape: 3 Story: 1 - Sheila C. Johnson recalls graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Tape: 3 Story: 2 - Sheila C. Johnson remembers her summer in Brussels, Belgium “When we started BET, it was going to be the Ebony magazine on television,” Johnson tells me. He became the first black American billionaire. During the campaign, she got herself into trouble—and quickly had to apologize—when she spoke at a McDonnell event and mimicked the stutter of his Democratic opponent, Creigh Deeds. “I think the jury’s still out,” she says. I have never seen anything like this.”. The billionaire talks to Lloyd Grove about the pandemic, why she’s “ashamed” of BET now, and how politics disillusioned her. “A lot of people don’t read newspapers, but they certainly watch movies.”, Johnson, not surprisingly, has a lot on her plate.

Sheila Johnson has had a rougher time as a political activist.

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