Thanks to reporting by CBS' Bill Whitaker the weekend of Feb. 27, 2023, trendsetting journalist Belva Davis became known to a new swath of American TV viewers. Davis mentored Whitaker in journalism. Davis appears at the end of the Whitaker portrait, aged 91.
Civil Rights Baby author Nita Wiggins met Davis in Washington, D.C., in 2011. Wiggins includes, in this clip, the project that Davis pushed at that time they discussed their beloved industry of journalism.
For Wiggins, there is a sequence of four books that form a Pantheon of memoirs or biographies -- not to be missed. These blokes listed below show how African American Women journalists from the mid-20th century forward carved out and held their reporting positions. In chronological order of their lifespans and careers, 1. Alice Dunnigan's Alone Atop the Hill, 2. James McGrath Morris' (biography of) Ethel Payne: Eye on the Struggle, 3. Davis' Never in My Wildest Dreams, and 4. Wiggins' Civil Rights Baby: My Story of Race, Sports, and Breaking Barriers in American Journalism.
There is much to know about Davis, who cut her journalistic teeth in the black press of the 1950s. She progressed into the radio and television eras and reached mainstream media on the West Coast. But, how? Davis gathered and synthesized information relevant to viewers -- and produced stories that brought out empathy for her subjects. That's part of the formula for her longevity--more than 50 years, despite biases held by TV bosses.
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