6 Black Women You Didn't Know Were The First To Host TV Shows
You'd have to search hard to find out about these women.
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Della Reese - Reese was the first African-American woman to host her own syndicated talk show in the United States, The Della Reese Show.(Photo: Gerald Smith/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
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Cicely Tyson - One of this generation's most treasured luminaries, Award-Winning actress Cicely Tyson holds the title as the first Black woman to ever host SNL, taking the stage in 1979 during the show's fourth season. Tiffany Haddish joins the legacy of Tyson and a few other extremely talented women. (Photo: Al Levine/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
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Whoopi Goldberg - Some sources credit Mo'Nique and then Wanda Sykes as the first Black women to host their own late night shows, but the incomparable EGOT Whoopi Goldberg hosted a syndicated late-night show back in the early '90s. Now Robin Thede has joined the ranks with these women. (Photo: Afro American Newspapers/Gado/Getty Images)
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Hazel Scott - A jazz pianist and singer, Hazel Scott also became the first Black woman to have a TV show in 1950.(Photo: Gilles Petard/Redferns)
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Barbara McNair - McNair starred in her own 1969 television variety series, The Barbara McNair Show, becoming one of the first Black women to host her own musical variety show.(Photo: NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)