Meet Gwen Ifill
BHM Day 25...."The First Black Female News Anchor"
"No one's ever assumed a white reporter can't cover a white candidate."
— Gwen Ifill
While at Simmons College, Gwen Ifill interned for the Boston Herald-American. One day at work, she discovered a note on her desk that read, "Nigger go home." After showing the note to editors at the newspaper, who "were horrified," they offered her a …
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