The untold story of Debra Lee, BET, and the first Black company to IPO on the NYSE

This was a major deal. We were a Black company, and Wall Street had come calling.

“Do you think we can go any faster?” I asked, checking my watch for the third time: 5:17 p.m. and rush hour. We had exactly 13 minutes to get all the way from the commercial printer’s office in Virginia to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Capitol Hill. Bob’s voice was playing on repeat in my head like the countdown for a bomb: Get it done in five, four, three, two. . . .

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