I’m In The Black People Business

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Right here on the City ONE / REACH Media household, we take critical satisfaction in our management, significantly with regards to our founder and chairwoman Cathy Hughes.

Along with ensuring the African American group has a nationwide media outlet that may all the time be trusted with the reality and journalistic integrity, she additionally hasn’t been a slouch in in the least with regards to ensuring all staff — race, creed, gender, sexuality, area or any divider you’ll be able to consider aren’t an element in any respect — are taken care of professionally and, sure, well-paid.

With that stated, we now have to salute the celebrated Inc. Journal for profiling Mrs. Hughes on our firm historical past, along with our values as a complete and the place we plan on main out tradition within the foreseeable future.

….now that’s the way you kick off Black Historical past Month!

Check out just a few standout excerpts from Cathy Hughes’ profile on Inc. under:

“As a publicly traded firm, City One’s govt crew and board of administrators is beholden to its shareholders. However Hughes hasn’t modified her method to the enterprise since she moved from her hometown of Omaha, Nebraska to Washington D.C. in 1972 to work at Howard College’s WHUR. ‘Alfred is within the media and communications enterprise,’ Hughes says. ‘I’m within the Black folks enterprise.’ It’s an ideal marriage, Joyner says. ‘Alfred and Cathy are an ideal mixture for the corporate,’ he says. ‘She cares about Black folks, and he will get to concentrate on the shareholders. That’s the way in which it ought to be.’

When Hughes and her then-husband Dewey Hughes bought WOL, an AM station that hit the airwaves on October 3, 1980, launching an organization that was then known as Radio One, she wasn’t planning on turning into one of many largest Black-owned media firms within the nation. ‘I used to be simply planning to be there the subsequent day to disseminate data of worth to the African American group,’ she says.

Hughes’s concentrate on Black folks has usually pushed each her enterprise choices and her private relationships. Retired now, the 74-year-old Joyner, who earned the nickname Fly Jock after doing a every day radio present in each Dallas and Chicago, has fashioned a detailed bond with Hughes over their shared love of Black folks and concrete radio.

‘Tom and I are equally yoked as a result of we now have the identical degree of dedication to the Black group,’ Hughes says. ‘I believe that’s necessary once you discuss in regards to the merger of Black firms. The widespread denominator between City One and Attain Media is that each firms are unapologetically Black.’”

Salute to the pinnacle honcho, as per common! We hope the crew is making you proud, boss woman!