ROBERT L. JOHNSON

Bill Luckett was an attorney, small-town mayor, candidate for Mississippi governor, storyteller, blues promoter and business partner and friend of Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman.

Robert L. Johnson, who founded BET, suggested a total sum that could equate to more than $300,000 per person.

Johnson said reparations would signal to white Americans that “damages are owed” to the descendants of the enslaved. Black Entertainment Television founder Robert L. Johnson appeared on CNBC, where he is a frequent guest, and called on the U.S. government to provide $14 trillion in reparations to African Americans for slavery and to help reduce racial inequity. “Now is the time to go big,” Johnson said Monday on Squawk Box.