Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist's Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America (Audiobook)

from Beth3511

I really liked the sections on her early life, her experience raising kids in DC, and her editing the Style section of the Washington Post.

from froxgirl

The author was a pioneer of African America journalists, serving as a reporter and columnist at the Washington Post and also, in her later career, in high positions with groups that recruited and encouraged students of color to join the profession. However, the book is dry and not very inspiring ...

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I was about to say that the headline across the top of this important book's front cover says it all: "A memoir by the first black woman reporter at the Washington Post. But, really, that bit of copy, while accurate, only tells part of the story. For while Gilliams was, indeed, when hired in 1961...

from kaulsu

What an eye opener. I lived in DC from 1968 until today--yet somehow I am so naive that the discrimination people endured never registered. I am very happy to have read this book, though I often felt surprised that it was written by a journalist....although I suppose column writing and prose writ...