November 10, 2006

Legendary newsman made '60 Minutes' tick

Alicia Nails, director of the Journalism Institute for Minorities here, commented on the death of veteran television newsman Ed Bradley from leukemia. "I'm impressed that he clearly was African American, yet he stood at the helm at something as mainstream and significant as '60 Minutes' for all these years," she said. "W.E.B. DuBois talked about the twoness of African Americans - to be American and to be black; well Ed Bradley experienced a threeness, if you will. He was an American, he was black, and he was a journalist, and everyone knows that's a whole different experience, too."

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