IWMF Live with Carole Simpson

In her first professional job as a broadcaster for WCFL Radio in Chicago, Carole Simpson (Bio) covered the civil rights movement and Dr. Martin Luther King’s non-violent campaign in the North, and the Chicago Seven Conspiracy Trial, two huge national stories in the U.S.

Simpson said she “never had a mentor because I was one of the first African Americans and first women in the U.S. to broadcast the news.” She learned the ropes, she said, “by knocking my head against the wall.” Today, Simpson makes it a priority to “mentor as many young people of color and as many women as I can, because I know how it might have helped me had I had a mentor.”

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