Barden: The Majestic Investor
Barden was the Manager, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of The Majestic Star Casino, LLC. He was also Executive Chief Executive of Majestic Investor Holdings, LLC, and Manager of Barden Colorado Blackhawk, Colorado, Barden Mississippi, Tunica Mississippi, and Barden Neveda, Lo Vegas, Neveda, and Chairman and President of BDI, Barden also served as Chairman of Barden and Gray Foundation, Inc, over the past 30 years, Barden has successfully developed, owned and operated many business enterprises, in various industries including real estate deveopment, casino gaming, broadcasting, cable televisionand international trade, in 2003, Black Enterprise Magazine selected Barden as Company of the Year, in 2004 Barden received the Trumpet
Award for Entrepreneur of the Year. When one of Barden’s companied aquired the Fitzgerald Las Vegas Casino in Las Vegas, he became the first black casino owner in Vegas. On May 2011, Barden died of lung cancer, he was 67 years old.