Review by Booklist Review
In five decades as an award-winning reporter, Davis witnessed changes in news gathering and the politics of race and sex. Born to a poor black laundress in a hardscrabble Louisiana town, she migrated with her family to California during the Depression. Poverty and an unstable family life caused her to miss an opportunity to go to college and to take refuge in early marriage. As a young wife and mother, she stumbled into freelance reporting for Jet and Ebony. Taking every random assignment and learning all she could, she moved on to radio and television, along the way meeting and interviewing celebrities, including Bill Cosby, Nancy Wilson, James Brown, Martin Luther King Jr., Huey Newton, Angela Davis, Michael Jackson, and Alex Haley. Her strong connections to the black community made her an asset as the media covered the social unrest, riots, and cultural revolutions of the 1960s. Davis chronicles her own struggles and political awakening as she pushed against the boundaries for women and minorities in journalism to become the first black female news anchor on the West Coast.--Bush, Vanessa Copyright 2010 Booklist
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Review by Library Journal Review
A pioneering black woman radio and television journalist and a daughter of the Depression in the Deep South, Davis tells of her encounters with volatile news stories from the Vietnam era on. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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