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b'Cathy Hughes, the first African-American woman to head a publicly traded company and voice for Black community in Our Town, tells Donald Graham what she learned from her "Take It Back" protest in 1986 against the Washington Post for its disrespect of the Black community with its choice of the first Black person for its Sunday magazine cover~\\n"But let me tell you something that I\'ve learned from this demonstration. It is not your job to tell the story of me and my people. It is my job to tell the story of the Black community." I said, "So I thank you." I said, "Because throughout this demonstration, the best thing that was learned was that to have my own voice for my own people is the most important thing I could do."\\n\\nCathy Hughes, Media Mogul, Urban One and host Andy Ockershausen, in-studio interview\\n\\nAndy Ockershausen: This is Our Town. This is Andy Ockershausen. I don\'t know how this has come about, but this lady has been the most important person I can think of in the broadcast world for many, many years. And being part of that world has been so important to me, to know her, to watch her, to get so much excitement from her, who started a radio company, a world of her own, Cathy Hughes. As they say, "Mrs. Hughes is in charge." Welcome to Our Town, Cathy Hughes.\\nHughes and Ockershausen - Mutual Admiration and Respect\\n \\tCathy Hughes: Andy O. Now, the part you forgot in the introduction was that during those formative early years, you helped train me. You were my advisor. You were my mentor. You were my, "Let me call Andy O. and see what his opinion on this would be."\\n \\tAndy Ockershausen: You bring tears to my eyes because to see what you have accomplished, to be a part of it even from an outside, Cathy. But I recall your complaint to me, and you were right at the time. "We\'ve got to be careful with AM, because FM is eating us alive."\\n \\tCathy Hughes: Yes.\\n \\tAndy Ockershausen: You thought WMAL, because of the power of the AM station, could help bring people\'s attention to WOL at 1450. \\nOn Buying WTEM AM980 and Unhappy Washington Football Fans\\n \\tCathy Hughes: Yes, absolutely. It\'s so interesting now, because we just bought an AM, WTEM 980. All right. I was like, "Alfred, did you read the articles?" Okay. But it\'s such an institution. \\n \\tAndy Ockershausen: Absolutely, Washington Redskins means so much to both of us, Cathy. \\n \\tCathy Hughes: If they go back to being a team. Did you happen to see Sunday there was no one in the stadium. I\'ve never seen that in all-\\n \\tAndy Ockershausen: That\'s a message. \\n \\tCathy Hughes: Oh, my God. All these years I\'ve been in Washington, D.C., even when they were losing before, the fans-\\n \\tAndy Ockershausen: There\'s a big difference. \\n \\tCathy Hughes: Yeah, the fans would go there and drink beer and eat vinegar french fries. They would be happy, unless we won, but they certainly did not desert the team. But Sunday, you could have shot a cannon up in that stadium and not hit anybody. They wouldn\'t be happy, unless we won, but they certainly did not desert the team. But Sunday, you could have shot a cannon up in that stadium and not hit anybody. \\n \\tAndy Ockershausen: Cathy, it\'s been building up, and it may have come to a head now. There\'s something that strategically, drastically wrong with that organization. Where fish always stinks is at the top. \\n \\tCathy Hughes: That\'s true. \\nHumble Beginnings in Omaha, NE\\n \\tAndy Ockershausen: And this top brings down whatever has brought it down. I don\'t know what can be done about that. But you have proved what the top can do and that is the top. A poor little girl from Omaha, Nebraska. When I found that out, I couldn\'t believe you were from Omaha. I said, "What is that girl doing here in Washington?"\\n \\tCathy Hughes: Yeah, yeah. Grew up with the Fondas. The whole Fonda family\'s from there. \\n \\tAndy Ockershausen: Oh, big, big time. \\n \\tCathy Hughes: Yeah, the whole Fonda and also Marlon Brando\'s mother ran the ...'