Imperial Women want NAACP to investigate Cleveland mainstream news media for ousting Black women anchors Ramona Robinson, Stacey Bell, Kimberly Gill
Former Cleveland Channel 3 News Anchor Ramona Robinson
Former Cleveland Fox 8 News Anchor Stacey Bell
Former Cleveland News Net 5 Anchor Kimberly Gill
19 Action News Anchor Sharon Reed, who is not currently on the air
From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com
(Editors note: Since the debut of this article Anchor Ramona Robinson has joined Cleveland's 19 Action New Team as a 6:00 pm anchor).
CLEVELAND, Ohio-The Imperial Women call for an investigation by the Cleveland NAACP on whether Black women anchors at local Cleveland mainstream television news stations are being discriminated against and wrongly ousted in the predominantly Black major metropolitan city of Cleveland.
Cleveland News Net 5 Anchor Kimberly Gill, Cleveland Channel 3 News Anchor Ramona Robinson, and Cleveland Fox 8 News Anchor Stacey Bell all left their posts last year.
Robinson was replaced by Russ Mitchell, who is Black, and Gill and Bell were replaced with Whites.(Editor's note: Since this article Gill's White male replacement has been replaced by Mike Dunston, who is Black)
Sharon Reed, a Black news anchor at 19 Action News with a master's degree from North Western University's prestigious Medill School of Journalism, is off the air too, and with no explanation to the Black community on Reed or the others.
Below is a Facebook discussion precipitated on the controversial issue by Cleveland Fox 8 News Anchor Wayne Dawson, who is Black, and whom community activists support. It started when Dawson, on Jan. 11, put up the below picture on his Facebook page of the Fox 8 Morning Show of himself, Stephanie Schaffer, and Kristi Carpel, both White women. He was celebrating the addition of Carpel to the local morning show in place of the popular Tracy McCool, who is also White.
When questions then arose about race in the Facebook comments around the picture of the trio and the celebration of Carpel to the Fox 8 Morning Show, the discussion escalated. That discussion highlights the status of Bell having left Channel 8, Robinson's departure at Channel 3, and the non-renewal of Gill's contract by Channel 5. And community activists want to know where Reed is since she disappeared last year as news anchor of a television channel that caters to the Black community.
But the Facebook dispute below ends with a greater understanding by some of the need for fair play for Black anchors at major news stations in the majority Black city of Cleveland, a city with roughly 400,000 people.
Wayne Dawson (On Facebook)The new Fox 8 News in the Morning team members of Kristi Carpel (lt.), Stephanie Schaffer and Wayne Dawson are pictured below per the Facebook Page of Dawson. The Facebook comments around the the picture and the status of Black women anchors in the majority Black city of Cleveland escalated into a discussion on where Black female anchors for Cleveland television news stations have gone.
From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com
(Editors note: Since the debut of this article Anchor Ramona Robinson has joined Cleveland's 19 Action New Team as a 6:00 pm anchor).
CLEVELAND, Ohio-The Imperial Women call for an investigation by the Cleveland NAACP on whether Black women anchors at local Cleveland mainstream television news stations are being discriminated against and wrongly ousted in the predominantly Black major metropolitan city of Cleveland.
Cleveland News Net 5 Anchor Kimberly Gill, Cleveland Channel 3 News Anchor Ramona Robinson, and Cleveland Fox 8 News Anchor Stacey Bell all left their posts last year.
Robinson was replaced by Russ Mitchell, who is Black, and Gill and Bell were replaced with Whites.
(Editor's note: Since this article Gill's White male replacement has been replaced by Mike Dunston, who is Black)
Sharon Reed, a Black news anchor at 19 Action News with a master's degree from North Western University's prestigious Medill School of Journalism, is off the air too, and with no explanation to the Black community on Reed or the others.
Below is a Facebook discussion precipitated on the controversial issue by Cleveland Fox 8 News Anchor Wayne Dawson, who is Black, and whom community activists support. It started when Dawson, on Jan. 11, put up the below picture on his Facebook page of the Fox 8 Morning Show of himself, Stephanie Schaffer, and Kristi Carpel, both White women. He was celebrating the addition of Carpel to the local morning show in place of the popular Tracy McCool, who is also White.
When questions then arose about race in the Facebook comments around the picture of the trio and the celebration of Carpel to the Fox 8 Morning Show, the discussion escalated. That discussion highlights the status of Bell having left Channel 8, Robinson's departure at Channel 3, and the non-renewal of Gill's contract by Channel 5. And community activists want to know where Reed is since she disappeared last year as news anchor of a television channel that caters to the Black community.
But the Facebook dispute below ends with a greater understanding by some of the need for fair play for Black anchors at major news stations in the majority Black city of Cleveland, a city with roughly 400,000 people.
Wayne Dawson (On Facebook)
The new Fox 8 News in the Morning team members of Kristi Carpel (lt.), Stephanie Schaffer and Wayne Dawson are pictured below per the Facebook Page of Dawson. The Facebook comments around the the picture and the status of Black women anchors in the majority Black city of Cleveland escalated into a discussion on where Black female anchors for Cleveland television news stations have gone.
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