Tamron Hall was born September 16, 1970 in Lulling, Texas. She is the daughter of Mary Newton and stepfather Clarence Newton. Her stepfather was in the military. During her early childhood, she loved acting and doing things that got her the place she has in life now. Her stepfather is who inspired her to be journalist. Her parents divorced when she was just 8 years old. Tamron went to Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Journalism. In 1992, she got a position as a general assignment reporter at KBTX network of Bryan College Station, Texas. She worked there until 1994. She then went to work for KTVT in Ft. Worth, Texas. Later, she moved to Chicago and stayed there many years. In 2004, her sister, Renate, was murdered in Houston, Texas. They found her body floating in the pool. She was in an abusive relationship with a man for years. Many believe that this was cause from domestic abuse. Until this day, no arrest has been made and the case is still unsolved. Her sister’s death has affected Tamron’s relationship with men. In 2007, she scored an interview with Barack Obama, right before he announced that he was going to run for president. 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 …show more content…
She shows a lot of integrity and strength with her career. She is also very smart and intelligent at what she does. I admire her because we have a few things in common. She had a stepfather who she admired just I did. They divorced soon after she was born, my parents divorced too. She doesn’t let negativity stop her from being great. Also, she is known for her good looks and clothing she wears. She was replaced by Megyn Kelly on the Today Show after she had been at the network for 10 years. She came from a poor background but, made it out and is very
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
Tom Robinson Tom Robinson was a part of the unfair and racist Court system in the 1900s. He and many other black men were falsely accused of things such as Rape, Burglary, assualt etc…. This Case was very similar to the other Falsly cases around this time the only difference being Tom Robinson had a Lawyer who defended him well. He provided us with loads of evidence proving Tom Robinsons Innocent. No Medical reports, The eye opposite Tom Robison's dominant hand was blackened, and Mayolla and her father have mixed stories.
We have a true admiration for her persona mostly because of her fighter spirit. Literally. Coming from a boxing background, she grew up loving boxing and lately she really got into it. "
Truth is powerful and it prevails, as did Sojourner Truth. The feminist and abolitionist leader deserves to be commemorated with a monument. The ex-slave and mother of 5 was a traveling preacher and the first female, African-American abolitionist speaker. The prominent activist became famous when she filed a lawsuit fighting for her son who had been illegally sold into slavery, and won, resulting in her becoming the first African-American woman to win a court case against a white man. She was then recruited as a lecturer on the anti-slavery circuit, earning a reputation as a powerful speaker for abolition and women’s rights.
In the text Shirley Chisholm is taking a stand for women’s rights rather than African American rights. Paragraph 4 it states, “ The unspoken assumption is that women are different.” What Chisholm means by this is that they are treated differently due to their gender. Chisholm believes that it is not always true that women are different. Paragraph 6 states, “But the truth is in the political world I have been far oftener discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black.”
In in April of 2015, she gave a speech at the White House Correspondents Dinner at the Washington Hilton. The comedic speeches at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner allows people to criticize high ranking politicians, mainly the president, in a way that draws attention to what needs to be taken care of and what needs to stop which is what makes it both a persuasive and informative speech. While she is bring
She stood up for the women who weren’t equally the same as regular men and women, white or black, women weren’t always treated right. She participated
Entangled in the struggles for power between races, ideology, and mega corporations, Lila Mae is a colored female Intuitionist elevator inspector who “is never wrong” (Whitehead 9) but is blamed for the fall of the elevator Number Eleven. In Whitehead’s The Intuitionist, the elevator falls into “a total freefall [which] is a physical impossibility” (35) and it is up to Lila Mae to find “the ferry across Earth to Heaven…. : an Intuitionist black box” (98) to redeem herself. According to Selzer, as she gets closer to finding the black box, Lila Mae is “ever more in thrall to the seduction of uplift” (682), a promise “not only to transform the city physically, but also to transfigure race relations” (681).
The way she uses her tone, and her words will be remembered for along time. She is inspirational, passionate, caring, and she cares for people's well being. They could be white, black, asian, or hispanic and she would want equal rights for everyone. Freedom is a right not a privilege, use freedom
There have been many movements over time that has led America to where we are today. “The Antebellum reforms was a new, more radical anti-slavery movement that emerged by the early 1830s. Its program for ending slavery stood in stark contrast to the “colonizationist” position earlier advocated by some prominent Americans and embodied in the American Colonization Society (1816–1964)”. (Walters, 1995) This reforms were put into place to better everyone as well as their families.
He transferred to St. John Vianney Minor Seminary while in high school and graduated from there in 1967. After the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. he heard some of his classmates at Immaculate Conception Seminary in Missouri making fun of his death. This led him to quit seminary and eventually attend Yale University Law School. After graduating from Yale, he worked for many years as a lawyer for the agricultural giant Monsanto. Then he moved to Washington D.C. where he worked some for President Ronald Reagan.
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.
The fact that she worked several jobs when she was in high school shows how she had a vision to become the successful person that she is and for this reason I have admired her since the first time I heard about her in
He was arrested, tried, and convicted of kidnapping and first-degree murder. He was sentenced to death and is currently incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison. Danielle missing had sparked a massive search
She became incredibly famous because she took a stand and became a central figure in an issue that developed into one of the most controversial topics in the 1950’s. Also, in the right, bottom corner, another line states, “We’ve been holding it open since 1955.” Her actions and experiences elevated her to celebrity status. Regardless of her fame, she never deviated from a person of impeccable character and integrity. She remained true to her spirit and served as a role model for over fifty years.