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The longtime WDET on-air personality is Detroit’s jazz historian

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First Black-owned television station WGPR dates back 50 years in Detroit

WGPR’s history dates back 50 years to when William Banks and a colleague attended a White House dinner pressing then-President Richard Nixon for a broadcast license in Detroit.

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First Black-owned TV station in the U S , founded in Detroit, gave African-American journalists opportunity to tell their own story

WGPR was the first Black owned and operated television station in the country. A museum honoring its history sits in the former broadcast studios.

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