RLJ Companies' Founder Leads Historic Business and Cultural Mission to Liberia

U.S. Newswire, April, 2007

To: POLITICAL EDITORS

Contact: Xina Eiland, 1-202-321-8022, xinae@verizon.net, for The RLJ Companies

MONROVIA, Liberia, April 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Robert L. Johnson, chairman of the RLJ Companies and founder of Black Entertainment Television, departed Liberia today having led a 25 person delegation of prominent African Americans.

The delegation included Oscar winning actress Cicely Tyson; former Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater; scholar and educator Dr. Walter Leonard; Liberia's Ambassador to the United States Charles Minor; Apparel manufacturer Morris Goldfarb; Infrastructure Specialist and Managing Director, GoodWorks International Sam Smoots; Educator, senior executive with Notification Technologies former interim superintendent, District of...

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