NASHUA, N.H. —

The city of Nashua, New Hampshire, is teaming up with the Black Heritage Trail to make Holman Stadium a new stop.

Historians said the stadium and the Nashua Dodgers played a key role in the integration of U.S. sports, but that distinction almost belonged to a different team.

Holman Stadium has been home to several teams in its 86-year history, but its first team has forever lodged itself into baseball lore. In 1946, the Nashua Dodgers welcomed Black players Roy Campanella and Don Newcombe to the team.

Their additions made the Nashua Dodgers the first integrated professional sports team of 20th century America.

To honor the accomplishment, the city of Nashua and the Black Heritage Trail are teaming up to make Holman Stadium a stop on the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire.

"Being part of the Black Heritage Trail as a result of the history of Holman Stadium is a great honor and something we're very pleased with," said Mayor Jim Donchess.

According to Minor League Baseball, then-general manager Branch Rickey chose to send Campanella and Newcombe to Nashua after a Dodgers affiliate in Illinois told him they would not be welcomed on the team.

"I think Nashua has always been and still is a community that's very welcoming to new people and it does not exclude anyone, and that was true back even in the 1940s," Donchess said.

In an interview in the mid-2000s, Newcombe reflected on his time in Nashua.

"It turned out for the better that we went to Nashua," he said. "I always thanked God for Nashua. We had a lot of fun. We were considered people, not Black people."

"This is something the city is very proud of, that Don Newcomb had a good experience here, unlike he might have in other places, but somehow, they knew that this was likely to be the result," Donchess said.

Newcombe and Campanella won a couple of championships with the Nashua Dodgers before being called up to the major leagues. Newcombe went on to win a Cy Young Award, rookie of the year and a most valuable player award.

Campanella won three MVPs and is enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

"We were lucky to have them," Donchess said. "And then they went on to the major leagues and, again, had very successful careers there."

Despite their success in the major leagues, Newcombe and Campanella fell victim to the same prejudice that led the Dodgers to bring them to Nashua in the first place.

"Not being able to stay in a hotel because the man did not want us to use the swimming pool," Newcombe. "Those kinds of degrading things certainly had an impact on our thinking. We knew we had to make change. We knew we had to succeed."

To coincide with the Black Heritage Trail plaque, Nashua City Hall is working to collect memorabilia for a permanent display. Donchess said the city is looking for Nashua baseball artifacts, specifically ones related to Campanella, Newcombe — the Dodgers and Holman Stadium.

"There is a gentleman here, Craig Michaud, who has an entire collection of Nashua memorabilia, and I'm going to be going visiting him pretty soon," Donchess said.

The Black Heritage Trail plaque will be unveiled on May 30 before a Nashua Silver Knights game at Holman Stadium.

INDIANAPOLIS — There are more the 1,600 people living with sickle cell disease statewide. Most are from the Black and Brown communities.

Across the country, one in every 500 African American children will have sickle cell disease, but access to care is hard to come by with only about a dozen providers across Indiana.

Providers, advocates, and patients all gathered at the statehouse Monday to discuss solutions and advocate for more access. Tevin Coleman, a former star runningback at Indiana University and now NFL player, joined the conversation with his wife Akilah. They have a daughter that is currently suffering from the disease.

"She got out of the hospital, she was healthy and she came to the game where I had four touchdowns,” Coleman said with tears in his eyes. “She just inspired me and motivated me to do that.“

Coleman is no stranger to Sickle Cell Disease. Both he and his wife are carriers of it.

Sickle Cell is a genetic blood disorder that affects red blood cells and can cause extreme pain, swelling and infections. Coleman himself had issues with the disease when he was playing football at IU. Now that his daughter has the disease, the family have become advocates.

"It's going to show the parents that they have someone to relate to and it's going to show the lawmakers and decision makers hey, like this is real,” Akilah Coleman said. “Even if it doesn't affect you, you’re seeing us. You’re seeing that, you know, it exists and we still need a lot of help to get it along the way."

Access to care for Sickle Cell Disease is hard to come by. Providers of that care say that has a lot to do with disparities in our health care for Black and brown individuals.

"When our patients walk into the emergency room, especially if they are coming in with pain, a lot of times they are questioned about how bad their pain actually is, do they really need the pain medication they are saying works for them?" Dr. Seethal Jacob, the Director of the Pediatric Sickle Cell Program at Riley Hospital for Children, said.

That line of questioning is something Khajae Henry is familiar with. She is a Sickle Cell patient.

"Unfortunately, I have had my own experience where I am in the hospital and I am informing the doctors and my healthcare team that I'm experiencing excruciating pain and they are choosing not to believe me," Henry said.

She didn’t know she was a carrier from birth because she was born in Jamaica. There, sickle cell tests from birth aren't as common as they are in the U.S.

Experiences like Henry's are why doctors and patients alike say investing in more resources to treat this chronic disease is vital.

"We don't have the resources to reach every patient in the state and we really need the state to support us in expanding access to care," Dr. Andrew O'Brian, the Director of the Adult Sickle Cell Program at IU Health, said.

Democratic representative Greg Porter proposed adding $1.5 million a year to the bi-annual budget to invest in sickle cell initiatives, but that conversation died.

There are several resources in Indiana for people who are currently suffering from the chronic disease:

Resources

- Indiana Hemophilia & Thrombosis Center

- Indiana Sickle Cell Consortium

- Martin Center Sickle Cell Initiative

READ MORE: ‘Help one another’: Indy doctor, patient with Sickle Cell push for Black blood donors | Indiana girl is raising awareness about Sickle Cell Disease through her own experience

Shirley Chisholm had a spirit unlike any other. She was a woman of many firsts: the first Black woman to be elected into Congress and the first Black woman to run for president.

Nicknamed “Fighting Shirley,” Chisholm kicked down barriers for women in politics and became a prime example of taking control of one’s destiny.

‘Spirit and Spunk’: Chisholm’s early years

Chisholm’s story begins in 1924 in Brooklyn, New York, where she was born the oldest of four daughters to Charles St. Hill, a factory laborer from Guyana, and Ruby Seale St. Hill, a seamstress from Barbados. She spent part of her childhood in Barbados on her grandmother's farm, where she received a British education.

Chisholm said in a previous interview Barbados was where she gained the ‘spirit and spunk’ to challenge the status quo – characteristics she would carry for the rest of her life.

After graduating from Brooklyn College cum laude in 1946, Chisholm began her career as a nursery school teacher and then as the director of two daycare centers. In 1949, Chisholm married Conrad Q. Chisholm, who was a private investigator.

In 1951, she earned a master’s degree from Columbia University in early childhood education. By 1960, she was a consultant for New York City’s Division of Daycare.

Chisholm had always been a fighter for social equality within her community – she joined the local Brooklyn chapters of the League of Women Voters, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Urban League and the Democratic Party Club.

‘Unbought and Unbossed’

Chisholm took her passion for helping others to a new level by entering into politics. In 1964, Chisholm became the second African American elected in the New York State Legislature.

When court-ordered redistricting created a new, heavily Democratic Congressional district in her neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, Chisholm seized the opportunity to run.

While campaigning, Chisholm would roam the new district in a sound truck announcing “Ladies and gentlemen, this is fighting Shirley Chisholm coming through.”

She won her seat and broke historic grounds by becoming the first Black woman elected to Congress.

Once in office, Chisholm wasted no time speaking out and fighting for issues that mattered to her. According to the New York Times, Chisholm said in her victory speech, “Just wait, there may be some fireworks.”

In her first floor speech, she spoke out against the Vietnam War. She also spoke out against being assigned to the Committee on Agriculture, stating it did not reflect her constituents who lived in an urban area. She was later reassigned to the Veterans Committee. She then served on the Committee on Education and Labor. She also served as secretary of the Democratic Caucus.

Chisholm introduced over 50 pieces of legislation, including playing a key role in the passage of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that is still used to this day.

She was fluent in Spanish and stood up for the rights of immigrants, children, women and low-income families. Her iconic campaign motto, “Unbought and Unbossed,” helped her stand out as a fearless leader.

Running for president

In 1972, Chisholm announced she was running for president – becoming the first woman and African American to seek a major party’s nomination.

In a previous interview, one reporter questioned whether she believed America was ready for a president that was both Black and a woman.

“I think what is even more important than whether or not America is ready for me as a president is to begin to prepare America for the fact that it is time that other people in America besides white males run for the highest office of this flag," Chisholm said. "It’s a preparation for the atmosphere to bring about the realization that someday Blacks will lead this country…that someday women will lead this country. That’s what this is all about.”

Running as a Black woman wasn’t easy – she had to sue her way into televised debates which only allowed her to make one speech. She also survived three assassination attempts. Despite these obstacles, Chisholm did not let that deter her.

“I have always been a catalyst for change,” Chisholm said in a previous campaign speech. “You’re going to have the doomsday criers out here saying that, ‘the woman is crazy, she’s nuts,’ but they said I was crazy from 20 years ago when I first emerged on the political scene. So let them continue to think I’m crazy.”

In the end, Chisholm’s campaign was underfunded and she ended up losing her candidacy at the Democratic National Convention. Despite that, Chisholm came in fourth place, receiving 152 delegate votes.

Chisholm would keep her seat in Congress and stayed until 1982. She founded the Congressional Black Caucus in 1971 and the Congressional Women’s Caucus in 1977. Through her time she sponsored increases in federal funding to extend the hours of daycare facilities and a guaranteed annual income for families.

In a previous New York Times interview, Chisholm said she had been misunderstood during her career – mentioning how her supporters were shocked when she visited former Alabama governor George C. Wallace, a segregationist known for his racist remarks, who was injured after an assassination attempt in 1972. She said she never wanted what happened to him to happen to anyone else.

Chisholm said Wallace ultimately helped her pass a piece of legislation through the House of Representatives that extended federal minimum-wage provisions to domestic workers by convincing his fellow Southern congress members to vote in favor.

After leaving Congress, Chisholm co-founded the National Political Congress of Black Women. She taught at Mt. Holyoke College in 1983. She died in 2005 in Ormond Beach, Florida at age 80.

‘Bring your own folding chair’: Chisholm’s lasting legacy

Chisholm’s legacy continues to inspire a new class of leaders, including Kamala Harris, who became the first woman, first Black and South Asian to be vice president of the United States.

Chisholm’s outspokenness challenged voters to question the status quo, and reimagine what a successful politician could look like.

In 2015, Chisholm was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by former President Barack Obama.

Illinois Rep. Lauren Underwood, who became the first Black woman elected to the House of Democrats leadership team since Chisholm, paid homage to her in a tweet, stating, “Shirley Chisholm taught me that if people don’t invite you to the table, bring your own folding chair. Doing that to stand up for my community fuels me everyday.”

President Joe Biden and the first lady host a White House celebration of Black History Month alongside Vice President Kamala Harris and the second gentleman.The event kicks off at 2 p.m. eastern. You can watch it live in the video player above.

Brick by brick, Deryl McKissack is building on a legacy. If you've ever taken in the magnitude of memorials, you've seen her handiwork.

"In a project like this, you know, there are a thousand moving parts," McKissack said.

For her, it's in the blood. She's part of a long line of architects, builders and dreamers.

"My family goes back to my great-great-grandfather who was a slave and came to this country in 1790. And he was a builder as a slave. And he passed a trade of building down to my great-grandfather," McKissack continued.

He would pass it down to his sons, who would become the first Black licensed architects in the southeast and officially start the family business in 1905. But it didn't end there. McKissack's father also took on the family legacy and her mother continued the work after his illness.  

"I started at six in the family business with my father. He would take us to work with him on Saturdays. I'm a twin and my mother needed a break," McKissack said. "And so he would take us on Saturdays and prop up on the drawing boards — because we didn't have computers back then — and he would have us draw."

In 1990, armed with a degree in civil engineering and $1000, McKissack launched her own firm.

"I had a lot to prove," she said. "I was one person. I was Black. I was female in a male-dominated industry. Why would anybody want to work with me?"

But somebody did eventually, after she picked up the phone and reached out to 150 potential clients.

"I don't need a handout," McKissack said. "If you give me an opportunity, I'm not going to let you down. And I built on that. My first client was Georgetown. I started with a $5,000 fee project and within six months I signed a million dollars worth of work with them."

From there, the repertoire grew from the U.S. Treasury restoration to modernizing D.C. area schools, to the design of Ghana's Cape Coast museum and project management on several U.S. airports.

"This particular job, you know, there was work on a taxiway in the apron all around the concourse. There was a lot of different activities here in the concourse."

But it was the appointment as architect of record for the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial that solidified McKissack's own stamp on history.

"I think about my ancestors and what they went through, the atrocities they went through — Jim Crow laws and you name it, slavery and all of that — for me to be sitting here today and even be sitting there then would just bring tears to my eyes because there had never been a time when a Black firm had designed something on a national mall."

Today her firm handles more than $15 billion in projects. But it wasn't a crystal stair. She says she faced misogyny and racism along the way.

"I've been discriminated against by Black men as well as White men," McKissacks said. "You want to say, you know, 'It's just a white male world and da da da da da.' But that's not true when you're a woman coming into this. And it's microaggressions in the sense that you can see them huddling together. You're left out."

A joint report from two architectural organizations found 2% of the nation's architects identify as African American. The barriers of obtaining licensure include the cost and a lack of support from their employer.

McKissack says she has come up with a plan to diversify the industry, enlisting some of the biggest firms in the country.

"Board members need to be Black in those companies so that there is a true understanding at the top of how policy makes Black people feel uncomfortable or how things are said and written," McKissack said. "So there are microaggressions, and then there's Black companies that need to be sustained."

Because like the McKissacks before her, she's laying a foundation she hopes lasts for generations to come.

"I believe that everybody is unique," she said. "They come here with a special purpose. And when they find that purpose, nothing can stop them. And as long as they're working and walking in that purpose, nothing can stop them."

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The Seattle Kraken say they will make National Hockey League history during Thursday night's game against Winnipeg when play-by-play announcer Everett Fitzhugh and analyst JT Brown team up to form the first all-Black television broadcast crew to call an NHL game.

Fitzhugh and Brown will appear on ROOT Sports Northwest. Fitzhugh is Seattle's radio play-by-play announcer but will be moving over to the television side for one night while regular TV announcer John Forslund works the national broadcasts for Vegas and Colorado on TNT. 

Seattle senior vice president of marketing and communications Katie Townsend said the team had planned for Forslund to miss a small number of games for national broadcast duties during the season and have Fitzhugh step in. She said having Fitzhugh and Brown team up during Black History Month adds even more significance. 

"We are fortunate to have an incredibly talented broadcast team. Everett and JT moved into NHL broadcasting this season, worked hard and have made an immediate connection with our fans," Townsend said.

Fitzhugh was Seattle's first broadcast hire in the summer of 2020 after working in the ECHL. 

Brown retired after playing parts of seven seasons with Tampa Bay, Anaheim and Minnesota. He last played during the 2018-19 season.

This story was originally published by Alex Livingston of Newsy, and the Associated Press contributed.

February is all about celebrating Black history, and throughout the month we'll be honoring influential African Americans whose stories you might not yet know. Some are pioneers in their field, some helped spark the civil rights movement, and all have contributed incredible things to not only Black history, but to the history of the United States as a whole.Rosa Parks is a name you probably already know well, when it comes to the Civil Rights Movement and the bus boycott in Alabama. But before Parks, there was Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old girl that refused to give up her seat in 1955, sparking the flame for change. Check out Colvin's story in the video above.

It was the kind of jaw-dropping performance the crowd had never seen.

Zeb Powell stole the show at the 2020 X Games in Aspen, Colorado, jumping and flipping his way right into fans' hearts and a first-place win.

But here's the thing, the rookie clutching the gold medal didn't even like snowboarding the first time he tried it.

"My teacher was mean, and she set me up backward. None of it was appealing to me," Powell tells Newsy. 

For a while, he turned to skateboard, but his raw talent on the snow could not be ignored.

"He's always been flipping and turning, and he's always been on a board or something that will let him fly through the air," Valerie Powell, Zeb's mother, said. 

His parents, who adopted him at five weeks old, started sending him from his North Carolina home to a snowboarding camp in Colorado. Powell stood out in a sport that traditionally is as white as snow.

Newsy's Clayton Sandell: How many people were there doing this that looks like you?

Powell: There might have been one other black person on the mountain.

Sandell: You ever feel unwelcome in this sport?

Powell: Luckily, like, no. I don't really have anything bad to say about anyone.

But it isn't just that Zeb Powell is one of the few black faces on the slopes. Sports commentator Selema Masekela has watched generations of snowboarders over three decades. He says the 22-year-old has game-changing skills he's never seen before.

"He's a jazz musician on a snowboard. He improvises.  It's like, oh, this is a type of snowboarding, an ability and an interpretation of the thing that is crazy, and so artistic and spontaneous, but highly athletic. And also, in the body of a young black kid who grew up in North Carolina?" sports commentator Selema Masekela tells Newsy. 

Powell's first appearance at the X Games changed everything. He gained a ton of new followers and support on social media. Fans who maybe, for the first time, saw themselves.

"I heard a lot of them say they didn't even know that black people snowboarded, which is crazy. I mean, just coming from me, like I never even thought about it like that," Powell explained.  

Powell is still getting used to all the attention and all the selfies.

Sandell: What's it like being recognized like that? 

Powel: That's always crazy. I just kind of fully embrace it try to talk to everyone.

But one thing he's sure of, he's using his new visibility to help make snowboarding much more diverse.

"I think the culture is just it's so fun to be around. I love it. I think a lot of people will love it," Powell says. 

Inviting as many as he can to a sport that historically hasn't been very inviting.

"Recreating and luxuriating in the outdoors was sort of one of the last safe spaces that were built mostly specifically for white people on the back end of segregation in this country.  And so, it's going to take a very long time for those things to change," Masekela explains further. 

Powell didn't place at this year's X Games, but his mom says what's important is that her son knows he has a gift.

"And you got to use it right and stay humble and give back, and so far, that's what he's done, which makes me extremely proud. Prouder than any medal he could ever win," Valerie Powell says of her son. 

"It's exciting because he really does have an opportunity to be so much bigger than then snowboarding and to be like an icon for the sport in opening up accessibility and possibility to what the slopes can look like. It's like, you know, growing up watching Jordan or Kobe or Serena, and then to see it come along, in in a young Black man in America is just it just wildly powerful," Masekela says. 

For now, Powell says he'll be spreading the word through the type of videos he makes with his friends, hot-dogging down the slopes and dropping into concrete canyons, making sure that even though he's one of the few Black pro snowboarders, Zeb Powell is not going to be the last.

Clayton Sandell at Newsy first reported this story.

According to a survey from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University, as of 2020, African Americans accounted for 13% of the overall local TV news workforce.

One woman and accomplished journalist is paving the way for more young Black women to enter the industry she loves. Reporter Linnie Supall shares her story. 

"Over 43 years, I think I've done it all," Daphne Taylor says, walking down memory lane.

"Interviewing Oprah, covering Kamala Harris, I've covered President Obama four times."

She's celebrating more than four decades as an accomplished journalist, and her relentless fight to find success. 

"It hasn't been easy because I never made a lot of money, but I have always loved what I did," Taylor explains. 

From television to print and radio, Daphne Taylor's passion for journalism is multi-faceted — so much so, that she paved the way for others. 

"I came back to Riviera Beach and I started teaching broadcast journalism to at-risk teen girls," says Taylor.  

In 1998 Taylor launched a mentorship program introducing teenage girls to the world of broadcasting. 

"We called ourselves WGRL, where girls come first."

For nearly 10 years, WGRL cut attention across south Florida, traveling to Miami and Fort Lauderdale, to meet the latest stars and prominent leaders in town. 

"From Martin Luther King III, to Rosie O'Donnell, Alicia Keys (...) One of my former students recently told me that she would not be where she is today, had it not been for myself," Taylor recalls. 

"When you see you've made a difference, it makes a difference," she adds. 

Taylor is still writing front page headlines, acutely aware of the racial barriers that still remain. 

"Getting rid of racial injustice is going to still take more time, but we can get through it and we will get through it," Taylor says.

"All of us have a responsibility to do our best to make this world a better place. Never give up on your dream. It's never too late. Never too late."

This story was first reported by Linnie Supall and Natalie Allen at Newsy.

Feb. 1 marks the first day of Black History Month, a federally recognized, nationwide celebration honoring the triumphs and struggles of African-Americans throughout U.S. history.

In 1926, Carter G. Woodson, who many consider a pioneer in the study of African-American history, wanted to find a way to bring attention to Black history and culture, so he established Negro History Week, which was celebrated the second week of February.

Woodson chose the second week of the month to celebrate because it coincides with the birthdays of two men who were instrumental in helping abolish slavery: Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.

During the 1960s, Negro History Week evolved into Black History Month, and in 1976, then-President Gerald Ford officially recognized Black History Month during the country's bicentennial, NPR reported.

On Monday, President Joe Biden officially proclaimed February 2022 as National Black History Month.

February is all about celebrating black history, and throughout the month we'll be honoring influential African Americans whose stories you might not yet know. Some are pioneers in their field, some helped spark the civil rights movement, and all have contributed incredible things to not only black history, but to the history of the United States as a whole.Discover the story of how Bessie Coleman became the first African American woman to earn her pilot license by watching the video above.

This month, Hearst Television is celebrating Black history by having courageous conversations. The fight for civil rights and justice goes back generations and has looked different each decade. We’re speaking with community leaders, elders – those who have lived through victories and troubled times, to talk about their experiences, and compare them with what we still struggle with today.

Joyce Jackson is a journalism and civil rights pioneer.

Jackson was a part of the Katz Drugstore sit-in in Oklahoma in 1958 — the beginning of a movement that changed the country forever.

Jackson also became the first Black woman on television in Oklahoma, at Oklahoma City's KOCO-TV.

Jason Hackett, a reporter for sister station KOCO, spoke with Jackson about her past, the country's present and what lies ahead in the future.

“Where I first started in television, I was a gopher, Jackson said, noting that John Harrison, the then-vice president of KOCO, hired her as a part-time receptionist, tour guide and as his assistant."

We asked Jackson how she ended up being on-air and in front of the camera.

“Well, I had been here about six months, and John called me in the office and he said, ‘Have you ever thought of being on television?’ And I said no. They brought me to the studio, put me in front of the cameras, and as much as I run my mouth, I couldn’t talk. They kept asking me questions and then the tears started rolling down,” Jackson said. “Yes, I cried. Because I was just afraid, you know, afraid of the unknown. “

Jackson was a Black voice in a sea of white voices at that time. We asked her if she felt the weight of those expectations of people looking up to her.

“Yes, absolutely. But of course, I had a lot of detractors. We had a lot of calls to get that person off the air. Why do you have that person on the air?” Jackson said. “But the community was very supportive. And so I became a voice to the community.”

Jackson talked with Hackett about the responsibility of journalists when it comes to reporting on race – what we are doing right and what we could be doing better.

“I think wherever you come from, you should make a point to know the community, to find out who the people are in the community so that you are, one, accepted, and two, that they will trust you with their story,” Jackson said. “I think there should be a better effort to reach the community and to make sure that the community is being included in the story of what’s going on in the nation because right now there’s a lot going on. And, of course, growing up, there was a lot going on.”

Jackson was involved in sit-ins in Oklahoma with civil rights leader Clara Luper. And now we’re seeing a civil rights movement again as people march in the streets and fight for justice and fight for inclusion.

“Aug. 19, 1958, is when they started the march downtown Oklahoma City to do a sit-in. And it was always non-violent and Miss Luper had us trained to deal with whatever would come at us,” Jackson said. “I never would imagine that in this day and time we would still be dealing with our civil rights.”

Jackson said we are still fighting.

“It just saddens you that someone running down the street for exercise can be killed. Some kid playing in the park can be killed. A woman driving by herself on the highway and not complying or talking back can be killed,” Jackson said. “All the things that Miss Luper told us about the color of your skin and that you were equal and that you are as… Sometimes it makes me sad and it makes me cry sometimes that here we are, still trying to get justice and trying to be treated equally and it’s all because of the color of our skin.”

We asked Jackson what she thinks the future hold for those fighting for justice in America.

“I think we need to go back to the things that we’re taught as little kids, to be kind to each other. To respect each other. To care about each other. Dr. Martin Luther King always said love triumphs all. And that’s what we need to do,” Jackson said. “We think that we’re so different that we’re trying to overpower each other. We can’t go back. We will not go back to a time where we were subservient and placed in situations where we did not have a voice. Today, everyone has a voice. And we need to use it.”

“You paved the way for what I’m able to do right now, stand there at that desk and deliver the news every morning,” Hackett said, thanking Jackson for giving us the opportunity to speak with her. “I want to say I appreciate that and appreciate you and the path you paved for kids like me, that grew up wanting to be journalists to be able to have this opportunity now, so thank you very much.”