by David H. Jackson Jr. | Jun 17, 2024 | African American History, People
Pioneering T.V. Broadcaster Dianne White Clatto, born Dianne Elizabeth Johnson on December 28, 1938, in St. Louis, Missouri, was the only child of Milton Johnson and Nettie Johnson. Growing up in north St. Louis, Dianne a child, studied piano and classical ballet...
by David H. Jackson Jr. | Aug 11, 2023 | African American History, People
George Alfred Strait, III, an award-winning journalist, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1945. Strait received a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Boston University in 1967 and a Master of Science in Biochemical Genetics from Atlanta University in Georgia in...
by David H. Jackson Jr. | Apr 8, 2022 | African American History, People
Media critic Eric Deggans was born on November 6, 1965, in Washington, D.C. to Chuck Deggans and Carolyn Jean McClellan Deggans Williams, a life member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Deggans was reared, however, in Gary, Indiana, and graduated from Andrean High...
by David H. Jackson Jr. | Mar 27, 2022 | African American History, People
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Yamiche Léone Alcindor Cline has quickly become one of the most prominent African American journalists in the nation. Of Haïtien heritage, Alcindor was born in Miami, Florida, on November 1, 1986. Her father and mother came from...
by MikellRobert | Jan 27, 2021 | African American History, People
Jonathan T. Capehart is a journalist and television anchor. He was born in Newark, New Jersey on July 2, 1967. Capehart graduated from Saint Benedict’s Preparatory School, located in Newark, in 1985. He then attended Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota,...
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