Radio One Founder, Cathy Hughes Profiled
When Cathy Hughes got pregnant at age 16, her friends said her life was over. Her mother kicked her out of the house. Hughes said she "was in shock."
But pregnancy "was the beginning," Hughes said. The birth of her son, Alfred Liggins, as "an impetus to achieve," Hughes told The Huffington Post. "It was the reason I took my life seriously for the first time as a teenager and made a promise to myself, my son and God that he would not become a black statistic."
Hughes did end up becoming a statistic: She started the largest African-American owned and operated broadcast company in the U.S. and became the first African-American woman to head a publicly traded company. Her Washington, D.C.-based Radio One has 53 radio stations in 16 urban markets, with projected 2012 revenues of $433 million. As CEO, Liggins has expanded Radio One into TV and online ventures.
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