Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush
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Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush at Yamashiro Hollywood on December 7, 2013
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| Born | Sharon Daisy Raiford February 29, 1952 Greensboro, North Carolina, USA |
| Other names | Sharon Crews |
| Spouse(s) | Grand L. Bush (m. 1994) |
Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush (born February 29, 1952) is an American television newscaster and print journalist.[1] She was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, and resides in Los Angeles, California.
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Education
Bush studied philosophy at North Carolina A&T State University.[1] She also studied at the University of Detroit, the US Naval Air Technical Training Command and Georgia State University at Atlanta.[2][3]
Career
Bush became American television's first African-American female weather anchor of primetime news in 1975 at WGPR-TV, the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station.[4][5]
Bush (then Sharon Crews) later anchored news and weather at CBS and NBC network affiliates[1] in North Carolina and Tennessee respectively before becoming an Atlanta, Georgia, correspondent and executive producer for Black Entertainment Television.[6]
Bush worked as a morning news anchor at an ABC affiliate in High Point, North Carolina, then licensed as WGHP-TV.[4]
Bush was an executive producer of the 1985 National Blues Music Awards.[7]
Personal life
Bush is married to Grand L. Bush.[8]
References
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- ↑ "Sharon Crews enjoys her job,” The Commercial Appeal, December 27, 1983, by John Knott
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 TV Week, Greensboro Daily News, December 12, 1976, Staff Writers
- ↑ In The Beginning... The Scene Detroit. Retrieved on March 9, 2007.
- ↑ "Greensboro Native Promoted to National Correspondent,” Carolina Peacemaker, December 20, 1990, by Dr. John Marshall Kilimanjaro
- ↑ "The Tunes That Shaped American Music — They Call It The Blues,” Cash Box, Volume XLIX, February, 1986
- ↑ Biography for Grand L. Bush IMDB. Retrieved on March 10, 2007.
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- African-American television personalities
- American television news anchors
- Weather presenters
- Georgia State University alumni
- University of Detroit Mercy alumni
- People from Greensboro, North Carolina
- African-American women journalists
