Nashville's other three major network affiliates — Channel 4, NewsChannel 5 and Fox 17 — all have a full-time African-American news anchor. Reach Brad Schmitt at brad@tennessean.com or 615-259 ...

DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- Ervin Lee Hester Sr., the first African-American news anchor in the southeast, died Thursday morning at age 81. Hester, who was born in Durham and raised in Granville County ...

Dorsey came to Atlanta in 1973 as an anchor/reporter/producer and assignment editor for WSB-TV's Channel 2 Action News.While she believed the viewing audience would judge her only on the content ...

Young women watched the first African-American news anchor on television every evening with hope and ambition, Woods said. "I had people tell me they grew up watching her," Woods said.

Three women who dreamed of bringing you the news, but had no idea just how far their dreams would take them. ... “When I first came to KCEN in 2017, we did not have any African American anchors.

Over 40 years ago, Jocelyn Dorsey become the first African-American news anchor in Atlanta. Now, she is part of the Georgia Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame, and WSB-TV’s Director of ...

KTVI Fox 2 News has twelve anchors, including two African Americans – April Simpson and Elliott Davis. Of 28 reporters listed on the station’s website, six – including Simpson – are ...

“When I first came to KCEN in 2017, we did not have any African American anchors. It was completely different,” she said. Ashley Carter, Texas Today’s meteorologist, knows that not many ...

TUCSON - (KVOA) It was 1978, the New York Yankees won their 22nd World Series, Terry Bradshaw led the Pittsburgh Steelers to a Super Bowl title and in the summer ...

I enjoyed what I did, and I thought I was good at what I did," said Dana Waddell, the first African American anchor at WAND. It was 1982 when WAND made the decision to move Dana Waddell to a role ...

More than 40 years ago, when Jocelyn Dorsey entered the Atlanta market, she found herself at the center of controversy as not only WSB-TV's first African American news anchor but the first in the ...

More than 40 years ago, when Jocelyn Dorsey entered the Atlanta market, she found herself at the center of controversy as not only WSB-TV's first African American news anchor but the first in the ...