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Article Excerpt
Byline: Jane Roberts
Feb. 22--If Art Gilliam wrote a book on how to succeed in business, there'd be a chapter on what to do when your plans break your mother's heart.
His did.
Back in 1977, Gilliam, then the youngest vice president at Universal Life Insurance Co., left the possibility of promotion in corporate life to buy white-owned WLOK 1340, the 1,000-watt R&B station with struggles of its own in a post-Martin Luther King Jr. Memphis.
Gilliam, who'd gained recognition after King's death as a free-lance opinion writer and reporter at The Commercial Appeal and WMC-TV, realized his biggest chance to make a difference was in media, even though he knew the bulk of his advertisers would be -- and still are -- white-owned businesses.
"The risk didn't matter. The fact that my mother cried mattered," said Gilliam, 63,...
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