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Cathy Hughes, a media arts mogul and trailblazer, continues to influence and empower Black communities globally. Her legacy lives on at Howard University's Cathy Hughes School of Communications.
October 3rd marks the 43rd anniversary of when Cathy Hughes founded Radio One, a project of her own passions that she turned into one of the top Black-owned businesses in the United States.