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Trudy Haynes, a broadcast journalism pioneer who was the first African American television reporter in Philadelphia, died Tuesday at the The post Philly’s first Black TV reporter, Trudy Haynes ...
[4] [5] [6] Chauncey Bailey, who was the editor at a large circulation African American newspaper, was murdered in 2007 for his investigative reporting. [7] Since the September 11 attacks, terrorism-related deaths involving journalists is another trend. [8] [9] In some cases, journalists have been attacked but survived, such as Victor Riesel. [10]
Abu-Jamal was born Wesley Cook in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he grew up.He has a younger brother named William. They attended local public schools. In 1968, a high school teacher, a Kenyan man instructing a class on African cultures, encouraged the students to take African or Arabic names for classroom use; he gave Cook the name "Mumia". [10]
Poet and civil rights activist Nikki Giovanni, a prominent figure during the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and '70s who was dubbed "the Princess of Black Poetry," has died. She was 81. She was 81.
Jose Antonio Vargas (born February 3, 1981) is a journalist, filmmaker, and immigration rights activist. Born in the Philippines and raised in the United States from the age of twelve, he was part of The Washington Post team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting in 2008 for coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting online and in print. [2]
Sarah-Ann Shaw (November 6, 1933 – March 21, 2024) was an American journalist and television reporter with WBZ-TV from 1969 to 2000. She was best known as the first female African-American reporter to be televised in Boston. Shaw was also known for her presence in civil rights movements and as a volunteer in education programs. [1]
This is a list of African-American activists [1] covering various areas of activism, but primarily focus on those African Americans who historically and currently have been fighting racism and racial injustice against African Americans.
Ford was born November 5, 1949, in Jersey City, New Jersey.His Irish American mother, Shirley (née Smith), [4] was a civil rights activist from New Jersey; [5] his father, Rudy “The Deuce” Rutherford, himself born in Richland, Georgia, was a Black Radio Hall of Fame inductee, the first Black man in the Deep South to host a non-gospel television program, Rocking with The Deuce.