The co-founder of BET and co-owner of three sports teams faced adversity on her way to becoming the first Black female billionaire. She tells her story in a new book, 'Walk Through Fire: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Triumph.'
Just outside of our nation's capital, amid Virginia's rolling hills and picturesque stone walls, is a place that time seems to have forgotten, the place Sheila Johnson calls home.
In some ways, the town of Middleburg had welcomed her:"But the thing that really bothered me was driving into town every day and seeing a confederate flag in a gun shop," Johnson said."When I saw that flag, I said,And I just decided to buy the building. And it's now a wonderful market. That's the beauty of having a little money."
Finally, her father got a permanent job in Chicago, and they were able to buy a house and settle down. Sheila took up the violin, and excelled at it. Their marriage lasted for 33 years. Today she says she shouldn't have let it go on as long as it did."I didn't want to be a failure," Johnson said."And I kept saying,. And I was really behind him. So much so that I got erased out of the picture."
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