Former Anchor Carole Simpson Reveals Racist, Sexist Slurs She Faced During Her Career

Pioneering Anchor Reveals Racist, Sexist Attacks She Faced During Her Career

Race has always loomed large for the scrappy South Side native [Carole Simpson, who was the first black woman in NBC's DC bureau and later became an ABC anchor]--larger than we knew, in fact, according to her new memoir News Lady. Simpson reveals a slew of race-related battles with ABC News, including her account that she was pushed out the door after a 25-year career.

What's most striking about the book is that some of the most cringe-inducing incidents occurred not just in the early phase of her career, when black women were a rarity in the senior ranks of television news, but years after you would assume that the fried-chicken jokes had stopped. Even if Simpson is enlarging these episodes through the mists of memory, her anger--and sometimes her tears--shows they left an indelible mark.

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