Civil rights activist and journalist who served for many years as the Managing Editor of the The City Sun.
She graduated from New York's Adelphi University.
She was awarded top honors from the Public Relations Society of America in 1979 for her work on the tension between Jews and Blacks in Crown Heights, New York.
She was born as the youngest of seven children in Princes Town, Trinidad, and Tobago.
She and pro-athlete Don McPherson both studied at Adelphi University.