For nearly three decades, MELBA TOLLIVER reported and anchored news at WABC-TV, WNBC-TV, News 12 Long Island and the Food Channel, in addition to writing for USA Today, Good Housekeeping, Black Sports, and other magazines and newspapers. She was host and reporter for the ABC Network series, Americans All; and for several WABC Eyewitness News series, among them, Profiles, People, Places and Things, and Consciousness Rising. She was writer/producer of "Gordon Parks: Man for All Seasons," for the WABC public affairs program Like It Is. At WNBC, Tolliver created and hosted the public affairs program Meet the People. Tolliver served as Howard R. Marsh visiting professor of journalism at the University of Michigan and was Writer-in-residence at Pratt Institute. She has been recognized with an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Molloy College, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the New York Association of Black Journalists, the John B. Russwurm Award from the New York City Urban League, the Matrix Award from New York Women in Communications, and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to the University of Michigan, where she co-directed Kerner Plus 10, a conference on minorities and the media.
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