6 Black Women You Didn't Know Were The First To Host TV Shows

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me040101_Goldberg_Whoopie_actress_comedian_50.jpgHazel 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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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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