Movies, Media & More — Gil Noble: Passing of a Black TV news pioneer

Apr. 11 |     By Dwight Hobbes Contributing Writer   Word of Gil Noble’s death stopped more than a few folk cold. Black journalism today is what it is — quality reporting — because Noble, Sue Simmons, Bob Teague, Carole Simpson and their...

Pioneering newscaster Sue Simmons got shafted

Mar. 21 |     Once upon a time, before the early 1970s, there were even fewer Black faces in television news than there are now. Which is to say, everybody broadcasting the news was White. Then, as part of its response to coast-to-coast Black upheaval,...