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San Francisco & Peninsula News Belva Davis, Bay Area broadcasting trailblazer, dies at 92 [View all]
Belva Davis, a Bay Area broadcasting trailblazer, died at 92 on Wednesday morning after a long illness.
Davis was the first African-American woman to become a television news reporter on the West Coast when she was hired at KPIX in 1966.
She spent three decades working as a reporter and anchor for KPIX.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/bay-area-journalist-belva-davis-dies/
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