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Tamron Hall Makes TV Journalism History - While there are still barriers that need to be broken, Black women across the globe have been breaking barriers in television journalism. As Tamron Hall was announced as the first Black co-host of the Today Show, BET.com takes a look at other first Black female news anchors all over the world.  —Dominique Zonyéé (@DominiqueZonyee)(Photo: Andy Kropa/Getty Images)

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Audrey Pulvar - Before becoming France’s first Black female news anchor in 2004, Audrey Pulvar worked as a journalist in Martinique.  Her journey to national French TV was not easy. When she first arrived in 2000, she was told “the French public is not ready" for a nonwhite face to present the news.(Photo: Pierre Suu/Getty Images)

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Belva Davis - Eight-time Emmy Award-winning journalist Belva Davis was the first Black female TV journalist in Western America. She made her television debut in 1963 for KTVU, a Bay Area television station, covering an African-American beauty pageant.(Photo: Vince Bucci/Getty Images)

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Oprah Winfrey - While Davis was conquering the West Coast, Oprah Winfrey was making a name for herself in Tennessee. At the age of 19, she became the youngest person and the first African-American woman to anchor the news at Nashville's WTVF-TV.(Photo: AP Photo/Harpo Productions, George Burns)

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Noraly Beyer - Noraly Beyer was the first Black news anchor in the Netherlands. From 1985 to 2008, she presented the news for the NOS, the Dutch BBC. (Photo: NOS)

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Jayne Kennedy - Actress Jayne Kennedy replaced Phyllis George on The NFL Today in 1978, becoming the first African-American woman to host a network sports television broadcast.(Photo: CBS /Landov)

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Alyce Chavunduka - Zimbabwe-born Alyce Chavunduka made South African television history by becoming the first Black female news anchor on the SABC's former "white" TV channel, TV1. She died from an epileptic seizure in January.(Photo: SABC News)

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Claudia Unterweger - Born to an African-American father and Austrian mother, Claudia Unterweger in February 2011 became Austria’s first Black on-camera news presenter. She debuted on “Zib-flash,” a program of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation ORF.(Photo: ORF/Ali Schafler/Zib Flash)

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Barbara Blake Hannah - Barbara Blake Hannah made U.K. history in 1968 as the first Black news anchor. She appeared in the THAMES TV daily magazine program TODAY, but after just nine months racist comments caused her contract to be terminated.(Photo: THAMES TV)

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Ethel L. Payne - Ethel L. Payne is known as the “First Lady of the Black Press.” She combined activism with journalism during the 1950s and 1960s. Payne is also the only African-American out of four female journalists honored by the U.S. Postal Service on a “Women in Journalism” stamp.(Photo: Unites State Postal Service)

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Nadia Crow - While other American states have seen female African-American news anchors, Nadia Crow became Utah’s first African-American news anchor in 2013. She joined Salt Lake City’s KTVX-Channel 4 at the age of 27.(Photo: ABC 4 Utah)