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8.05.2011

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Dorothy E. Brunson, first African-American woman to own a radio and TV station, has died

Urban Radio Nation August 05, 2011

Dorothy Brunson, born in Georgia and raised in Harlem, got her start in broadcasting in 1962 as an assistant controller of New York's 16...

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