Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush

Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush Biography

Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush is an American television newscaster and print journalist. She was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, and resides in Los Angeles, California.

Television

Bush became American television's first African-American female weather anchor of primetime news in 1975. The station for which she anchored, WGPR-TV, was the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station.

Bush (then Sharon Crews) later anchored news and weather at CBS and NBC network affiliates in North Carolina and Tennessee respectively before becoming an Atlanta, Georgia, correspondent and executive producer for Black Entertainment Television.

Bush worked as a morning news anchor at an ABC affiliate in High Point, North Carolina, then licensed as WGHP-TV;

Music

Bush was an executive producer of the 1985 National Blues Music Awards, held at the Orpheum Theatre in Memphis, Tennessee.

Civil rights activist

Bush marched with Rev. Jesse Jackson during the inaugural sit-in demonstrations in Greensboro, North Carolina, at the age of 9. According to the Greensboro Historical Museum, Bush participated in civil rights protests from 1961 to 1966.

Education

Bush studied philosophy at North Carolina A&T State University. She also studied at the University of Detroit, the US Naval Air Technical Training Command and Georgia State University at Atlanta.

Personal life

Bush is married to Grand L. Bush.

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