Get to know these trailblazing Black women journalists

They blasted through barriers to speak truth to power

Continuing our Black History Month journey, today I’m presenting an array of African American women journalists, from the 19th century to the 21st, who were true trailblazers.

In the not-too-distant past, it took inordinate amount of perseverance for female journalists of any race or background to break into white male-dominated fields of correspondence…