Lila Diane Sawyer was born on December 22, 1945, in Glasgow, Kentucky. Diane 's father was a Navy captain in World War II and later on became a respected republican politician. Diane always stayed active as a youth and because of that she was voted "most likely to succeed" by her classmates. When she was 16 years old, her older sister, Linda, became first runner-up in the 1962 Junior Miss Competition. Following in her sister 's footsteps the following year, Diane became the 1963 Miss Junior Miss of America. Diane also took after her sister for her college choice, attending the prestigious all-girls college Wellesley, graduating in 1967 with a bachelor 's degree in English. After college, she returned to Kentucky, where she then moved to Louisville to pursue a career in reporting. Diane went to a local TV station for a job, and because she was once Junior Miss, that was in her favor. The news station knew all about her and …show more content…
After working under Nixon for a few years, Diane became exhausted. She decided to return to reporting in 1978 as a correspondent for CBS News. Her career was marked in stone when she started working for CBS New. It had her rising steadily through the ranks of major news agencies and programs. Diane was a co-anchor alongside the legendary television journalist, Charles Kuralt in the years 1982 to 1984. In 1984 she became the first woman to work as a correspondent on the award-winning news magazine 60 Minutes. Although her career was going great, Sawyer decided to leave CBS in 1989 and go to ABC to co-anchor Primetime Live with Sam Donaldson. While working at ABC, she covered a number of crucial stories, one of which was covering the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks. In 1999, Sawyer then became the co-anchor of Good Morning America, alongside Charles Gibson. She went back as the co-anchor of Primetime Live from 200 to 2006. From there, she became anchor of ABC World News flagship nighttime news program, a position she took until
Dr. Kava has been on TV and radio shows to talk about her published work in the NY time and wall street journal.
Allen opened a Allen Dance Academy in Los Angeles in 2001. She as well is a T.V. Director,T.V. producer. One of the shows that Debbie Allen that has directed Is The Cosby Show. DIrecting and producing T.V. show and movies Her credits has been on famous shows like Grey's Anatomy, Scandal, How to Get away with Murder, Jane the Virgin, That's so Raven and other famous shows. Allen has earned three Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe, A Drama Desk etc.
“After a brief stint as a secretary, she landed her first job in journalism as the assistant to publicity director and Republican activist Tex McCary of WRCA-TV. After sharpening her writing and producing skills at the NBC affiliate, Walters moved to CBS, where she wrote material for the network's Morning Show.” (world book). She worked her way up to become a writer, through hard work and determination. “NBC hired Barbara Walters to work as a researcher and writer, her initial assignments were slanted towards female viewers”(world book).
Mae C. Jemison Mae Jemison was the first african american astronaut. She was the first african american women in space. She first went into space on the Endeavour. She was also the first african american women to be accepted into the space academy training program.
Although she had this great accomplishment she was declining as a mainstream artist, so she left Atlantic Records. In the late 70 and early 80s music was changing as a whole. In 1980, she signed with Arista Records and started to make hits again. One of her producers was the late “Luther Vandross and he produced the songs (Jump to it, 1982; and Get It Right, 1983), another R&B hit maker, and the other was Narada Michael Walden, he produced (Freeway of Love & Who’s Zoomin’ Who, 1985)” (Bowman).
Lucille ball was the first girl Co star on a TV show that show was I love Lucy the show was even named after her. Secondly, she also showed girls can out act men. In 1971 she became the first woman to receive the International Radio and Television Society's Gold Medal In addition there were four Emmys. Last but not least she did the impossible.
She is also the first African-American woman to co-anchor on the Today Show. Today, she is currently on “Deadline: Crime” on the Investigation
An actress, comedian, a producer, Lucille Ball is most famous for producing and acting in her most famous sitcom, I Love Lucy. Arguably one of the most influential female comedians of all time, Lucille Ball started small in the world of show business, worked her way to the top, and created a world-renowned sitcom that portrayed new ideas and reinvented the
CBS decided to adapt it for television and Lucille Ball insisted on working with her husband, Desi Arnaz, a Cuban musician and bandleader. CBS did not like the pilot made by Desilu Productions, the couple’s personal company, and so the pair took it on the road as a vaudeville act. CBS saw their success and turned I Love Lucy into a television show which skyrocketed Ball into fame and helped her and Desi Arnaz try to save their strained marriage. Higham, 1986Lucille Ball starred in several films and series after I Love Lucy, but never to the same fame she achieved with that
She landed a job as a teacher for a short while before beginning her career as a journalist and
Hoda appears on the fourth hour of this show. Since the year 1998, she has been a correspondent for the American television show called Dateline NBC. Apart from all these, Hoda has also appeared in several other shows. She served as the news assistant of CBS News in Cario, Egypt, in 1986.
To have the privilege of being able to see, you always wonder how life is to someone that can’t. Life revolves a lot in knowing what you can see, hear, taste, smell, and touch. These are some things we take for granted, sometimes you really have to sit yourself down and acknowledge how lucky you are. But in an imperfect world, some people aren’t as lucky and you have to be willing to listen and learn about what other people go through.
Katherine Johnson NASA mathematician Intelligence, hard working, and fighter are three characteristics of Katherine Johnson. Many people know that Katherine Johnson was a huge help in the space race that sent John Glenn to space, but she was so much more. As a well known NASA mathematician, Katherine Johnson showed America that African-American women could do the same as men could. She left a lasting legacy by helping other people that African-American women could be just like a man and have the same job as them.
Oprah Gail Winfrey was born on January 29, 1954 in the city of Kosciusko, Mississippi in the United States. Winfrey came from a lower class family, being raised by just her mother in the city of Milwaukee, where she grew up throughout her childhood ( britannica ). A few months after Oprah Gail Winfrey was born, her mother abandoned her to be about to travel, her grandmother, Hatti Mae Le raised her as her own daughter after her mother’s absences. Throughout her childhood, she lived in a terrible environment, but thanks to her grandmother she was able to become the women she is today, she taught her how to read and write. As a little girl she loved playing with her farm animals and gave them little cute nicknames, according to the reading Oprah
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to work for NASA in 1943? Well a woman named Dorothy Vaughan did just that. She was born and raised in Kansas City, MO. Dorothy was born on September 20, 1910. When Dorothy was seven years old she and her father and mother, Leonard and Anne Johnson, moved to Morgantown, West Virginia.