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Giving Honor Where Honor is Due to Belva Davis
December 27, 2012

Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism
Author Belva Davis, is a foundational player in Bay Area journalism with a career spanning more than five decades. Since becoming the first black female television journalist in the West in 1964, she has covered events of local, national, and international scope; interviewed US Presidents and other world leaders; and, for the past 19 years, served as the host of KQED's must-watch public affairs program "This Week in Northern California." Belva announced her retirement from broadcasting last year, and signed off the air on November 9. Join newsmakers, colleagues and friends in celebrating Belva's historic career with a reception and a program of interviews, tributes, and surprises presided over by former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown.

Note from Office of Barbara Rodgers, CBS 5 (Retired)
Please share this information with others who might be interested in attending the tribute to Belva Davis.  Tickets are now on sale.  Just go to www.ybca.org/belvadavis to purchase your tickets before they sell out.  Feel free to forward this information.
Thanks, Barbara Rodgers 


Belva Davis, (Second from Right) received well deserved accolades from American Women in Radio and Television, AWRT Golden Gate Chapter as Jackie Wright of Wright Enterprises, then president of AWRT Golden Gate Chapter announced the establishment of the Belva Davis Scholarship Award.  KTVU's Faith Fancher was honored as well in June 1999 at the newly opened W. Hotel, the tallest concrete-framed structure in San Francisco until the Paramount was completed three years later.

Jackie Wright (American Red Cross Bay Area Executive Officer), Ysabel Duron (KRON 4) , Cheryl Jennings (ABC 7),
Dana King (CBS 5), Leslie Griffith (KTVU-2), Catherine Heenan ( KRON-4),
 Belva Davis, (KRON 4), Gina Snow (KUSF), Front and Center, the late Faith Fancher.
(Friends of Faith is a foundation named in her honor after her brave broadcast chronicled fight with breath cancer ended in  October 16, 2003).

The Fourth Estate, "The Press" is key to the continual evolution of our democracy.  Without "Freedom of the Press" there will not be a just and moral democracy for all.  It is important to pay tribute to the people who have kept the faith and chronicled the milestones of the United States of America in a fair and balanced way.  Join the Bay Area in paying tribute to Ms. Davis, who along with her husband, award winning photographer William Moore, personally sacrificed as journalists.  Without vision the people perish (Proverbs 29:18) and without people like Davis and Moore dedicated to bring illumination, there can be no vision.

Sincerely,

Jackie Wright
President
Wright Enterprises
Three-time Associated Press Award-Winning Journalist
Emmy Award Winning Producer

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