Virginia native Ashanti Blaize-Hopkins grew up watching her mother work as a television news anchor, but it never dawned on her that she’d one day follow in her footsteps.
Award-winning journalist and CBS Saturday Morning co-host, Michelle Miller, has a secret to tell. In her debut novel, “Belonging: A Daughter’s Search for Identity Through Love and Loss,” Miller shares a painful secret that not many people in her life knew she carried—that her mother abandoned her at birth.
Los Angeles bid farewell to the iconic Beverly White, the dynamic news reporter who has graced Los Angeles airwaves for the last three decades and been in the industry for more than 40 years.
“Although I have no personal knowledge of when Dr. King died, I fully support the research of Dr. William Pepper, who has established that King’s life was terminated at the hospital. His research came through a credible witness, Johnton Shelby, whose mother personally witnessed the event. According to these sources, King did not die immediately, but shortly after being shot and transported to the hospital, when he was smothered to death with a pillow by the head surgeon, Dr. Breen Bland.” — Phillip F. Nelson, author of “Who REALLY Killed Martin Luther King,” in an interview with Our Weekly.
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“Girlz ‘N the Hood: A Memoir of Mama in South Central Los Angeles” is written by award-winning author, journalist, and college professor, Dr. Mary Hill-Wagner, and tells the story about the author’s experiences growing up in Compton, CA, with a undeniably strong, single mother of eleven children.
It is good to sing and celebrate ourselves, to dance in honor of the divine spark and specialness within each of us, and to rejoice in the midst of the sacred music we together make in the many ways we love and struggle to do and share good in the world.
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Among the first African Americans to hold prominent positions in both broadcast and print journalism, Ifill was a trailblazer in the profession.
The award-winning journalist has brought audiences stories from global breaking news to entertainment red carpets.
Sharon Woodson-Bryant was a kind, thoughtful, spiritual woman of faith and principle. She mentored young women of color and generations of black journalists. She lived to make a difference. After a fulfilling life giving back to others, Sharon passed away from cancer on March 3, 2019. Services will be held on Saturday, March 23, at 12 p.m., at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, 3200 McMullen Booth Rd., Clearwater, Fla., 33761. Born Aug. 23, 1947 in Topeka, Kansas, to attorney James E. Woodson and teacher Ethel Ransom Woodson, one of Sharon’s earliest memories was when she was just five years old: She and
Long before he was the leading scorer of the NBA, Showtime Lakers phenom Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was a teenager who was granted an opportunity to speak with Dr. Martin Luther King.
The Black Press Remembers “Before the Mayflower” Author, Freedom Fighting Journalist Lerone Bennett Jr.
The first new book is scheduled to come out next year
With a trial date set for December 15, today representatives from Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer’s office moved to dismiss misdemeanor criminal charges against freelance journalist Jasmyne Cannick. Cannick, 38, was charged with three counts of resisting a police officer resulting from being arrested on November 26, 2014 during what the Los Angeles Police Department referred to as the Ferguson protests.