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With her daughter, Elizabeth Gardner Hines, Jenkins is co-author of Black Titan: A. G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire (2004). [5] A biography of her uncle, a successful Alabama businessman and civil rights activist, the book won a Best Non-Fiction award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.
He started at WNBC-TV in New York City in 1963 and became one of the city's first black television journalists and went on to work as a reporter, anchorman, and producer for more than three decades. [3] He retired from WNBC-TV in 1991. He wrote two books. "Live and Off-Color: News Biz (1982, A&W Publishers) is an autobiography.
Today in New York (displayed on-air as "Today in NY") is a local morning news and entertainment television program airing on WNBC, an NBC owned-and-operated television station in New York City. The program is broadcast each weekday morning from 4:30 to 7 a.m. Eastern Time , immediately preceding NBC's Today .
Sue Simmons (born May 27, 1942) [1] is an American retired news anchor who was best known for being the lead female anchor at WNBC in New York City from 1980 to 2012. Her contract with WNBC expired in June 2012 and WNBC announced that it would not renew it. Her final broadcast was on June 15, 2012, shortly after her 70th birthday. [2]
Rodriguez has also served as a fill-in newsreader for Ann Curry and later, Natalie Morales on The Today Show on NBC. Prior to working for WNBC, she was a general assignment reporter for WCBS Newsradio 88 for four years, and worked as a reporter for the BronxNet cable television network. Rodriguez, who is of Puerto Rican ancestry [2] is a native ...
Leonard Peltier, the Native American activist who has always maintained his innocence in the killing of two FBI agents 50 years ago, was released Tuesday morning from a federal prison in Florida ...
Former Vice President Kamala Harris gave a rousing speech at the 56th NAACP Image Awards on Saturday night at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in California, where she accepted the organization’s ...
Casey Cooper knew the odds were stacked against her as a Black woman when she entered the long-haul trucking industry, a male-dominated field. She grew her business for 11 years, long-hauling ...