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Bay Area Honors Belva Davis, Pioneering Journalist, at Memorial

11/11/2025

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The Bay Area held a celebration on November 10, 2025, at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco at 11 a.m. to honor Belva Davis, a Bay Area television journalist.
Davis died in September at age 92.
Her career began in print journalism with Jet Magazine and the Sun-Reporter.
She later spent 18 years at NBC.
Her interviews with Martin Luther King Jr. and Fidel Castro underscored her influence on American journalism.

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The Bay Area held a celebration on November 10, 2025, at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco at 11 a.m. to honor Belva Davis, a Bay Area television journalist.
Davis died in September at age 92.
Her career began in print journalism with Jet Magazine and the Sun-Reporter.
She later spent 18 years at NBC.
Her interviews with Martin Luther King Jr. and Fidel Castro underscored her influence on American journalism.