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As an African-American television reporter, Jenkins was an anchor and correspondent for WNBC-TV in New York for nearly 25 years. She reported from the floor of national presidential conventions from the 1970s to the 1990s, and from South Africa she reported on the release of Nelson Mandela from prison and co-produced an Emmy-nominated prime ...
Notably, although the Louisiana Creole people were not considered Black until after the Civil War, the history of African American newspapers in Louisiana is sometimes considered to begin with the New Orleans Daily Creole, a Creole pro-slavery newspaper launched in 1856.
In 1970, Callender hosted (with Joan Harris, at its launch) the hour-long WNBCâTV (Channel 4) series Positively Black, which aired weekly, [5] featuring Black artists, writers, actors, musicians, sports figures and activists, as well as news about life and culture in the community. [6]
In 1988, she became co-anchor of Today in New York, a position she held until 2003 when she became the station's primary anchor for local programming and the host of Jane's New York. [6] She was also named the Correspondent of the Year by the New York Police Detectives, with a similar honor from the Fire Department of New York. [7] Hanson has ...
A number of prominent companies have scaled back or set aside the diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that much of corporate America endorsed following the protests that accompanied the ...
Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY February 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM NEW ORLEANS – The phrase Tom Brady repeated to describe his first season as FOX’s No. 1 game analyst: learning curve.
The first enslaved people from Africa arrived in Louisiana in 1719 on the Aurore slave ship from Whydah, only a year after the founding of New Orleans. [7] Twenty-three slave ships brought black slaves to Louisiana in French Louisiana alone, almost all embarking prior to 1730. [8]
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