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Kelly: Omaha native Cathy Hughes, the 2nd-richest black woman in U.S., is ‘thrilled’ to come home
Everyone knows Oprah, but who knows that the second-wealthiest black woman in America is a native of Omaha?
This week Catherine Hughes, chairwoman of Washington, D.C.-based Urban One — the nation’s largest distributer of radio, TV and digital programming for black audiences — returns home.
“Omaha is my village,” she said in a phone interview. “Everyone wants to come home, and I’m thrilled to be coming back.”
Hughes, who grew up partly in a north Omaha housing project, will take part in events Thursday and Friday — an honorary street-naming, a keynote speech at the Empowerment Network’s “Rebuilding the Village” conference and a humorous roast in her honor at the Omaha Press Club.
Three weeks later, she will join Oprah Winfrey on June 7 in the nation’s capital for a Women’s E3 Summit, referring to empowerment, entrepreneurship and engagement.
The summit coincides with the opening of an exhibit at the Smithsonian’s African American Museum of History and Culture, “Watching Oprah: The Oprah Winfrey Show and American Culture.”
So how did Hughes, 71, rise from a housing project in the middle …
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