Meet Cathy Hughes, Urban Media Maven

By M'Ballu Tejan-Sie

Published on 2/27/2017 at 5:30 PM

Cathy Hughes went from teen mom to media mogul, and as the "godmother" of urban radio, she became the first black woman to own a publicly traded company.

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