Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (923 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1609944666 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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presidents.. The book also recounts Davis’s interviews with world leaders, including Fidel Castro and three U.S. Overcoming personal and career obstacles, Davis reported on some of the era’s most explosive stories, including the rise and fall of the Black Panthers, the Jonestown massacre, and the Moscone/Milk murders. Raised in a dysfunctional family in Louisiana and the San Francisco Bay area, Belva Davis rose through the black radio industry, became the first black female reporter west of the Mississippi with her hiring at KPIX, and eventually anchored KQED’s “Evening Edition,” the station’s nightly news show. Never in My Wildest Dreams is a memoir with a message
Taking every random assignment and learning all she could, she moved on to radio and television, along the way meeting and interviewing celebrities, including Bill Cosby, Nancy Wilson, James Brown, Martin Luther King Jr., Huey Newton, Angela Davis, Michael Jackson, and Alex Haley. Her strong connections to the black community made her an asset as the media covered the social unrest, riots, and cultural revolutions of the 1960s. --Vanessa Bush . As a young wife and mother, she stumbled into freelance reporting for Jet and Ebony. From Booklist In five decades as an award-winning reporter, Davis witnessed changes in news gathering and the politics of race and sex. Born to a poor black laundress in a hardscrabble Louisiana town, she migrated with her family to California during the Depression. Davis chronicles her own struggles and politi
Should be required reading! Katy Bejarano This is one of the best books I've read in a long time - and I read a lot! It should definitely be required reading for all highschool and college students - at least in the San Francisco Bay Area, if not the entire country.It is an autobiography of the first black woman to 'make it' in the world of journalism, but it is so much more. It is a fascinating history of the 1950s onward - race relations, Ku Klux Klan in San Francisco, civil rights movements, Black Panthers, Patty Hearst, Jonestown, Dan White . An amazing woman's story about overcoming staggering obstacles. Barbara Ryan Living in the San Francisco Bay Area, I've watched Belva Davis on local TV for decades. I was a Cal student in the '60s during the early days of the civil rights movement, while Belva covered many of these stories. It's hard to remember how much mis-treatment of African-Americans there was in the "liberal" bay area in those days. Belva's story vividly portrays, in a very personal way, what life was like in those days for those outside of mainstream America. I am amazed that she achieved so much professio. "The Walter Cronkite of the Bay Area" according to Story Circle Book Reviews. Belva Davis has lived an extraordinary life, and she shares the details none of us ever saw on screen in her memoir, Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism. Davis was the first black, female journalist to appear on television on the West Coast. An ambitious, confident woman, she grabbed every story and always delivered. She is considered the "Walter Cronkite of the Bay Area."As a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, I grew up watching Belva Davis's energetic delivery. Her stories