"Legendary Bay Area news anchor Belva Davis passed away Wednesday morning at the age of 92."
"She was the first woman of color to work as a television news reporter anywhere on the West Coast."
""She set an example, we got to see her on television as we were growing up here in the city and we got to see how someone like her could possibly be out there doing the work that she was doing," former San Francisco Mayor London Breed said. "We knew that because of people like Belva Davis, we could actually achieve whatever we wanted.""
Belva Davis died Wednesday morning at the age of 92. She spent five decades covering news in the Bay Area, beginning in the 1960s. She became the first woman of color to work as a television news reporter on the West Coast. Davis grew up in Oakland and graduated from Mills College. She was inducted into the California Hall of Fame in 2018. Former San Francisco Mayor London Breed said Davis set an example for young people in the city and expanded what residents believed they could achieve.
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