Although black college students contributed to the civil rights movement, many may not realize that black college presidents played an equally important role in the fight for equality.
This was supposed to be an interview with Bruce Johnson, one of Cincinnati's first Black TV reporters, about his new memoir called Surviving Deep Waters. But Johnson, best known for his four decades as a reporter and anchorman at WUSA-TV in Washington, D.C., suffered a fatal heart attack Sunday.
“When I looked at her, I saw a hero." To those who didn’t know her, Mary Henderson may have appeared ordinary a hardworking woman, loving wife and mother, and proud grandmother. But what she accomplished nearly 70 years ago was quite extraordinary. And her family wants to make sure that story doesn’t go untold.