A Black Woman's Life in Journalism
Auteur: Haddock, Vicki
Editeur: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Publication: 2011
ISBN: 978-1-936227-06-8
e-ISBN: 978-1-60994-467-4
As the first black female television journalist in the western United States, Belva Davis overcame racism and sexism and helped change the face and focus of television news. Born to a fifteen-year-old Louisiana laundress during the Great Depression, and raised in the overcrowded projects of Oakland, California, Davis worked her way up to reporting on some of the most explosive stories of recent times, including the Vietnam War protests, the rise and fall of the Black Panthers, the Peoples Temple mass suicides at Jonestown, and the assassinations of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. Throughout her career she encountered a cavalcade of cultural icons: Malcolm X, Frank Sinatra, James Brown, Ronald Reagan, Huey Newton, Muhammad Ali, Fidel Castro, Dianne Feinstein, Condoleezza Rice, and others. Still active in her seventies, Davis now hosts a weekly news roundtable and special reports at KQED, one of the nation’s leading PBS stations.
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