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Tyler Perry beat the odds as black studio owner

By UrbanAmerica.com

3:42 PM on 07/27/2009

From urbanmecca.com. Tyler Perry is known today as the first African-American to own a major film and TV studio. He's a pioneer whose own life story is a rags-to-riches tale that reads like a screenplay. Now a writer, actor, director and producer -- Perry's success grew out of a troubled...