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Bill McCreary dead: Pioneering Ch. 5 anchor, reporter was 87 newsday.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newsday.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Bill McCreary Dies at 87; Blazed Trail for Black Journalists on TV He was hired at what became the Fox flagship station in New York in 1967, when there were few Black faces on the air, and became an Emmy-winning anchor. The veteran New York television journalist Bill McCreary in 2009.“The news directors suddenly realized, ‘Hey, we don’t have any connections in these Black communities,’” he said of his early days. “There were less than a handful of us on television back then.”Credit.Michael N. Todaro/FilmMagic, via Getty Images May 11, 2021 Bill McCreary, an Emmy Award-winning reporter who was one of the first Black television journalists in New York, and whose perspective helped fill a noticeable gap in local public affairs reporting, died on April 4 in Brooklyn. He was 87. ....
It is with heavy hearts and great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved mother and grandmother, Rita Sylvia Morrow (Fassina) on Tuesday April 27, 2021 at the age of 86. She left this world peacefully, surrounded by family at Thunder Bay Regional Hospital. Rita was born on November 20, 1934 in Port Arthur, to Anna-Maria and Angelo Fassina. Rita was the youngest of seven children growing up in the family home, located on Ontario Street in the “Little Italy” neighbourhood of Port Arthur. Rita attended St. Joseph’s School and later P.A.C.I. along with her friends for life Mary, Norma, Ruth, Diane, Joan and Maggie. The girls would always be together in the old neighbourhood, where they played baseball in the schoolyard and in the winter skated on the frozen milk rink outside the Co-op Dairy. ....
Paul Robeson gave voice to the trees and forests By Henry Hagins posted on April 9, 2021 This article first appeared on Jan. 27, 2015. Robeson was born April 9, 1898 and died Jan. 23, 1976. If Paul Robeson were alive today, he’d be toasting and defending people’s hero Ramsey Orta (who filmed the police killing of Eric Garner) and roundly condemning the rigged-grand-jury decisions, escape hatching the police murderers of Garner, Tamir Rice and Mike Brown, in particular, and the countless others who indignantly join them. Caption: Paul Robeson, left, joins the picket line outside the American Theater on Jan. 25, 1947. He had performed the night before to an integrated audience at the Kiel Opera House in St. Louis, Mo., but refused to play in segregated theaters. Credit: Amanda St. Amand ....
New Jersey brewery honors Black History Month with special beer series abc30.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from abc30.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.