Melba Tolliver

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Female

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Rome, Georgia, USA

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Melba Tolliver

Biography

Melba Tolliver was the first Black American to anchor network news (1967). For nearly three decades she reported and anchored for WABC-TV, Eyewitness News, WNBC-TV, News 12 Long Island, and the Food Channel. She also wrote for USA Today, Good Housekeeping, Black Sports, and other magazines and newspapers. When Ms. Tolliver wore her hair in an afro while covering the White House wedding of Tricia Nixon, she was retaliated against by the WABC bosses.


Credits

Back to Natural: A Documentary Film Back to Natural: A Documentary Film (2019) Character: self - journalist
An examination of the historical and global politics surrounding Black hair.
Summer of Sam Summer of Sam (1999) Character: Anchorwoman
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.



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