Kendis Gibson
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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And so the country was yet again, back then, we've had many of them since then,
And so President Obama was doing this town hall and one member, I forget who it was, a Black correspondent, walked by the planning meeting for it and noticed that there wasn't a single Black producer in that meeting as they're planning this town hall about COVID.
Police violence against the black community.
And then David went on and continued to have the press conference with or the town hall with President Obama.
David Muir.
David Muir.
They had Deborah Roberts was supposed to speak, but did not get a speaking slot.
And then they had Jamel Hill.
from ESPN at the time, part of the ABC Disney family.
And she did get to ask a couple of questions, but that was it when it came to representation.
So we had an email that went out to all the Black correspondents and anchors at ABC after we saw this play out and said, listen, if there was a senior or executive producer who was Black at that meeting,
there would have been more representation on camera of some of the Black correspondents and anchors.
They would have felt that it was important.
So we used that as a call to action.
And Don, we started meeting from that point and demanding that the executives meet with us to kind of say, listen, we need to have Brown and Black executive producers or senior producers and above at ABC.
At the time, the network did not have any
not on GMA, not on Nightline, not on any one of their shows was there a senior or above of color.
And so we kept meeting with them every three months and they'd say, oh, we're trying to find this person, we're trying to find this person, this person turned down our contract, this person turned down our contract.
And it would go on for several years.
And I think in that time, we got one person who became a senior producer to Nightline added to the shows.
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