Interview with veteran news anchor and reporter Belva Davis. Belva Davis was hired to replace television news anchor Nancy Reynolds, on KPIX-TV, San Francisco's CBS affiliate, making her the first female African American television reporter on the West Coast. Davis hosted and helped to create "
All Together Now"
, one of the country's first prime-time public affairs programs to focus on ethnic communities. In 1977, she left KPIX to work at the PBS affiliate in San Francisco, KQED. She anchored "
A Closer Look"
and then "
Evening Edition"
from 1977 to 1981, then worked as anchor and urban affairs -specialist for KRON 4.
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