A first day in the fieldSourced
Her first reporting assignment
was a riot.
Bea Hines became the Miami Herald's first Black woman reporter in 1970. On her first day in the role, she was sent to cover unrest in a Miami neighborhood. Her resulting story appeared on the paper's front page.
The first day
was already a major story.
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