Sharon Dahlonega Bush (born Sharon Daisy Raiford; February 29, 1952)
is an American television newscaster and print journalist. She was
born in Greensboro, North Carolina, and resides in Los Angeles,
California. She was an executive producer of the 1985 National Blues
Music Awards.Bush studied philosophy at North Carolina A&T State
University. She later studied at the University of Detroit, the US
Naval Air Technical Training Command and Georgia State University at
Atlanta.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.Sharon Crews
(as she was then known) later anchored news and weather at CBS and NBC
network affiliates in North Carolina and Tennessee, respectively,
before becoming an Atlanta, Georgia, correspondent and executive
producer for Black Entertainment Television.
is an American television newscaster and print journalist. She was
born in Greensboro, North Carolina, and resides in Los Angeles,
California. She was an executive producer of the 1985 National Blues
Music Awards.Bush studied philosophy at North Carolina A&T State
University. She later studied at the University of Detroit, the US
Naval Air Technical Training Command and Georgia State University at
Atlanta.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.Sharon Crews
(as she was then known) later anchored news and weather at CBS and NBC
network affiliates in North Carolina and Tennessee, respectively,
before becoming an Atlanta, Georgia, correspondent and executive
producer for Black Entertainment Television.
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