UpwardAction Salutes Cathy Hughes

UpwardAction Salutes Cathy Hughes

Media Mogul, Cathy Hughes was born in 1947 to Helen Jones, a trombonist and her father Alfred Woods. She grew up with her family in the Logan Fontenelle Housing projects in Omaha, Nebraska - where her father worked while studying for an accounting degree at Creighton University. He proudly became…
UpwardAction Salutes R. Donahue Peebles

UpwardAction Salutes R. Donahue Peebles

Roy Donahue “Don” Peebles is a real-estate entrepreneur, author and political activist. He was born on March 2, 1960 to a teen-aged, working class mother as her only son. Mr. Peebles was a smart and savvy teen who worked and networked his way to becoming one of the country's wealthiest…
UpwardAction Salutes Don H. Barden

UpwardAction Salutes Don H. Barden

Detroit business executive Don H. Barden holds the honorary title as the first African American to own a Las Vegas Casino. He was the first to hold a major cable television franchise, as well. Born December 20th 1943, the ninth of thirteen children, Mr. Barden would go on to become…