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Going 'One on One' with media mogul Cathy HughesCatherine Elizabeth Woods Hughes was born in Omaha, Neb., where she would later attend Creighton University and the University of Nebraska. But before graduating, she began working at KOWH, a local black radio station, where she handled assorted jobs en route to a successful career in the industry. More » |
PBS documentary revisits rise of jazz age in ParisThe period between World War I and World War II was marked by a cultural renaissance in Paris, when a vibrant community of African American musicians thrived in a section of the city called Montmartre. Many of the initial expatriates to settle there were black U.S. Army veterans who preferred to remain in France rather than return to the repressive system of segregation that awaited them back home in America. More » |
